2022

As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the interest of clarity, our policy is to show the titles and descriptions in the language of delivery.

Online events and webinars

June, July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
13/6/2022 INRAP, Active Feedback: Building students’ capacity to generate their own feedback
13/6/2022 ACUE, Designing Courses that Put Students and Equity First (note that the time listed is US Eastern time).
13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
14-16/6/2022 University of Edinburgh, Learning & Teaching Conference (hybrid in person and online)
16/6/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – Understanding Reflection and its Relationship with the Personal Tutor Role
16-18/6/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE) Accelerating innovation (hybrid online and in person at Glasgow)
20/6/2022 University of Birmingham, HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future Facing University Teaching (hybrid online and in person)
23/6/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Strategies to support reading – Reflected
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference
12-13/7/2022 University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2022, Personalised Pedagogies: inclusive, empowering and progressive higher education for all, see full programme

Resources and publications

Collins, M. & Childs, M. (7/6/2022), How did thinking about humanity’s graduate attributes guide the God Emperor of Dune’s golden path?, Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with the pop culture core
Costa, K. (8/6/2022), Trauma Aware Pedagogy (40-minute audio recording with transcript), Tea for Teaching podcast series
Hinton, D. (9/6/2022), Curriculum Futures: Situational Factors in Learning Design Framework Workbook, HEFi University of Birmingham via National Teaching Repository
Kernohan, D. (8/6/2022), Less jargon and more evidence is needed on skills, WonkHE blog, “Microcredentials are the fashionable term in skills provision, but there’s no evidence that learners or employers have any interest in the idea. David Kernohan wonders why we are focused on supply rather than demand.”
Nicol, D., McCallum, S., Kushwah, L., & Quinn, N. (1/6/2022), Beyond the Technology: Rethinking assessment and feedback – unlocking the power of comparison based feedback (1-hour audio recording), Jisc podcast series
Paas, F. & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (8/7/2020) , Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(4), pp. 394–398.
Watson, D. & Turnpenny, J. (10/1/2022), Interventions, practices and institutional arrangements for supporting PGR mental health and wellbeing: reviewing effectiveness and addressing barriers, Studies in Higher Education

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE.
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference.

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. You may also wish to follow my Twitter feed, Mary Jacob L&T.

LTEU 2022 Summer Update

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Update to Turnitin

For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin.
On Tuesday 5 July 2022 Information Services will be enabling the new version of Turnitin on Blackboard. Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes. To help staff with this change, we have arranged the following FAQs.
Further information can be found on our Changes to Turnitin: Information for Staff blogpost.

Updated E-Learning Policies

Updated versions of all e-learning policies are available from the Information Services Regulations and Policies site.
Blackboard RMP and E-submission policies remain unchanged from last years. There have been some updates to the lecture capture policy. These include clarification on the retention period for recordings and guidance on using Panopto for assessment.

10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

We will be hosting our 10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference between 12-14 September 2022.
Conference Registration is now open. Further information, including the conference programme will be available on our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference webpage.

Digital Insight Survey

The student Digital Insights Survey has recently closed, with over 660 responses. Overseen by JISC, the survey asks students about their use of technology in learning and teaching, and provides a benchmark for comparisons with other institutions.
The results of the survey can be used to inform strategic decisions to enhance the digital experience and enable digital transformation.
Last year’s key findings can be found in the Student Digital Insights Survey Results blog post. Key findings of the 2022 survey will be published soon. Subscribe to the LTEU blog for notifications.

ARCHE

The ARCHE programme is a means by which Aberystwyth University (AU) staff can apply for Fellowship in the Higher Education Academy (now part of Advance HE). See the ARCHE scheme handbook for full details.
The next deadline for applications is 07/09/2022. To express an interest in applying, please email felstaff@aber.ac.uk.

PGCTHE

The PGCTHE is open to staff teaching on Aberystwyth University courses. Participants should have at least 40 hours contact teaching time at higher education level over the duration of each module, but there is scope to consider staff with other scenarios on a case-by-case basis. Please email the course team for more information.
The next intake for both module 1 and module 2 will be in January 2023. The deadline for applications is 1 November. Attendance at induction is required for all students.

TPAU 2022-23 Competition Opens in May

We will start recruiting for the next cohort of the Teaching for Postgraduates at Aberystwyth University programme this month. Any interested PGRs who are teaching can apply for a place on the programme up until 24th June. The compulsory Induction for the programme will take place on 20th and 21st September. Further information.

Subscribe to the LTEU Blog

Subscribe to the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Blog so that you receive an email notification whenever a new post is written. Keep up-to-date with software developments, new initiatives, training sessions and events that help support teaching activities and technology-enhanced learning.

Weekly Resource Roundup

The Weekly Resource Roundup includes resources to help staff teach effectively, such as external webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more.

CPD

Attend sessions in our annual CPD programme.
The programme includes sessions on e-learning, as well as lots of sessions on learning and teaching topics such as assessment and feedback, presentation skills, accessibility, and more.
We deliver some sessions ourselves, while others are delivered by university staff whose teaching features good practice in those areas. Look for (L&T) in the session title.

Blackboard Course Creation 2022-23

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Towards the end of July we will start to create Blackboard modules for 2022-23.

Unlike previous years, there will be no existing courses created blank. This decision was made at the recent Academic Board.

Course content and files will be copied over from the version of the module in the previous academic year. Turnitin submission points, Panopto recordings, and interactive Blackboard activities are not included in the copy; these will need to be rebuilt. We’ve got lots of FAQs to assist staff with this.

If you are running a new module then these will be created using your pre-agreed Departmental Templates. Similarly, if you are running a module that hasn’t run in the past couple of years then these will also be created blank.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact us (elearning@aber.ac.uk). Once the modules have been created, we will let you know.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 6/6/2022

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Online events and webinars

June, July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
8/6/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar (including Professor Kathleen M. Quinlan & Dr Edd Pitt (University of Kent): Digitally enhanced assessment and feedback: promising practices from the literature 2016-2022 and more.)
8-9/6/2022 QAA Scotland, Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible (hybrid online and in person)
9/6/2022 CDE and the University of London Institute in Paris, The hybrid experience for the practitioner
9/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback webinar
13/6/2022 INRAP, Active Feedback: Building students’ capacity to generate their own feedback
13/6/2022 ACUE, Designing Courses that Put Students and Equity First (note that the time listed is US Eastern time).
13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
14-16/6/2022 University of Edinburgh, Learning & Teaching Conference (hybrid in person and online)
16/6/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – Understanding Reflection and its Relationship with the Personal Tutor Role
16-18/6/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE) Accelerating innovation (hybrid online and in person at Glasgow)
20/6/2022 University of Birmingham, HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future Facing University Teaching (hybrid online and in person)
23/6/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Strategies to support reading – Reflected
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference
12-13/7/2022 University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2022, Personalised Pedagogies: inclusive, empowering and progressive higher education for all, see full programme

Resources and publications

Bassa, B. (18/5/2022), Pouring from an empty cup: poor university staff wellbeing is an impossible ground for high quality teaching, Advance HE News & Views
Beyond the Lectern podcast series
Carless D. (1/7/2022), From teacher transmission of information to student feedback literacy: Activating the learner role in feedback processes, Active Learning in Higher Education, 23(2):143-153.
Curtis, G., Bretag, T., Slade, C. & McNeill, M. (n.d.), Substantiating contract cheating: A guide for investigators, TEQSA
Drumm, L. (6/6/2022), Trouble ahead for digital education? The risks of forgetting and distancing of education from the digital, Meta Meta: learning about learning about learning
Hartley, P., Beckingham, S., & Dawson, M. (30/6/2022), Success in groupwork, London, Bloomsbury Academic
Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E., & Nordmann, E. (4/6/2021), Watch Party Lectures: Synchronous Delivery of Asynchronous Material, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Lancaster, T. (6/5/2022), Artificial Intelligence Led Threats To Academic Integrity, European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022
Leaders and Legends of Online Learning podcast series
Nordmann, E., Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E., Robson, L., Phillipson, S., Lipan, G., & McGeorge, P., (11/12/2018), Lecture capture: Practical recommendations for students and instructors, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
Pitt, E. & Quinlan, K. M. (19/5/2022), Impacts of higher education assessment and feedback policy and practice on students: a review of the literature 2016-2021, Advance HE
QAA (2/6/2020), Contracting to Cheat in Higher Education: How to Address Essay Mills and Contract Cheating, second edition
Simonson, S. R., Earl, B. & Frary, M. (2022), Establishing a Framework for Assessing Teaching Effectiveness, College Teaching, 70(2), 164-180.

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE.
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference.

Changes to Turnitin: Information for Students

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For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin.

On Tuesday 5 July Information Services will be enabling the new Turnitin on Blackboard.

Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes.

To help students with this change, we have arranged the following FAQs:

Our webpages and help guidance will be updated to reflect these changes.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Contract Cheating: Red Flag Checklist Workshop– Materials Available

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On 20 May, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit were joined by Dr Mary Davies, Stephen Bunbury, Anna Krajewska, and Dr Matthew Jones for their online workshop: Contract Cheating Detection for Markers (Red Flags).

With other colleagues, they form the London South East Academic Integrity Network Contract Cheating Working Group and have been doing essential work and research into the increased use of essay mills and contract cheating.

The session included lots of practical tips for colleagues to help detect the use of Contract Cheating whilst marking.

The resources from the session are available below:

Contract Cheating Detection Workshop_handout_editable_pdf Download

Further information on Unfair Academic Practice is available in the Academic Quality Handbook (see section 10).

Many thanks to the presenters. We’ve had such great external speaker sessions this academic year; take a look at our External Speakers blogposts for further information.

Changes to Turnitin: Information for Staff

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For the academic year 2022/23 we will be using a new version of Turnitin.

On Tuesday 5 July 2022 Information Services will be enabling the new version of Turnitin on Blackboard.

Whilst most of Turnitin’s current functionality will remain the same, there will be some changes.

To help staff with this change, we have arranged the following FAQs:

Further information can be found in our Turnitin LTI FAQs.

Our webpages and help guidance will be updated to reflect these changes. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 18/5/2022

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Online events and webinars

June, July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
24/5/2022 Blackboard, Teaching and Learning Conference Europe 2022
26/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Basic Principles of Decolonising Academic Practice – Roundtable
26/5/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Collaborative teaching and learning – inside and outside the classroom – Reflected
27/5/2022 INRAP, Cross-national Perspectives to Inclusive Assessment in Higher Education
1/6/2022 Transforming Assessment, Student perspectives on audio feedback
8/6/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar (including Professor Kathleen M. Quinlan & Dr Edd Pitt (University of Kent): Digitally enhanced assessment and feedback: promising practices from the literature 2016-2022 and more.)
8-9/6/2022 QAA Scotland, Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible (hybrid online and in person)
9/6/2022 CDE and the University of London Institute in Paris, The hybrid experience for the practitioner
9/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback webinar
13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
14-16/6/2022 University of Edinburgh, Learning & Teaching Conference (hybrid in person and online)
16-18/6/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE) Accelerating innovation (hybrid online and in person at Glasgow)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference
12-13/7/2022 University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2022, Personalised Pedagogies: inclusive, empowering and progressive higher education for all, see full programme

Resources and publications

Academic Engagement Team, Aberystwyth University (n.d.), Referencing & Plagiarism Awareness, LibGuides
Bacchus, R., Colvin, E., Knight, E. B., & Ritter, L. (2020), When rubrics aren’t enough: Exploring exemplars and student rubric co-construction, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 17(1), 48-61
Byrd, I. (n.d.), Torrance’s Manifesto for Children, Byrdseed
Collins, M., Childs, M., & Jacob, M. (5/5/2022), Are learning styles the boss level zombie of neuromyths? (42-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with a pop culture core
Future Teacher Talks (4/2022), Knowing what they know (webinar recordings and materials from Emily Patterson, Jekaterina Mihhaljova, Mary Jacob, Tamsin Cathan Davies, Helen Williams)
Lawrence, J. (12/5/2022), Inclusive Academic Practice as Pedagogic Competence, The SEDA Blog
Nadan, T. (17/5/2022), Reflections & contributions CIE Islands of Innovation 2022, Digital, Equitable & International HigherEd
Parthner, C. (15/3/2022), Open Access Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Resources, International Centre for Academic Integrity
Roberts, D. (14/5/2022), EDI: A seat at the table, not crumbs from the floor, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Loughborough University
To, J., Panadero, E., & Carless, D. (2021), A systematic review of the educational uses and effects of exemplars, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Wong, P. & Compton, M. (18/5/2022), Stop Weighing Your Pigs! A discussion on ungrading (Part 1) (27-minute audio recording), My Liminal Pod podcast series
Yorke, J., Sefcik, L., & Veeran-Colton, T. (2/2/2022), Contract cheating and blackmail: a risky business?, Studies in Higher Education, 47(1), 53-66

Note: Thanks to Noweira, A. M. for highlighting the articles about exemplars in a thread on Twitter.

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE.
Call for proposals 1/6/2022 Distance Education, Special Issue on Addressing the ‘challenging’ elements of learning at a distance
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference.
Call for proposals 31/5/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Conference

Guest speaker announcement: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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We’re pleased to announce our first guest speaker for this year’s annual learning and teaching conference (12-14 September 2022).

Dr Alex Hope will be joining us to talk about how to embed sustainability meaningfully into the curriculum.

Dr Hope is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and Associate Professor of Business Ethics at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is responsible for the strategic leadership of education across the faculty and undertakes teaching, research and consultancy across topics such as education for sustainable development, responsible business, business ethics and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Alongside his work at Newcastle Business School Dr Hope is Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (UN PRME) Climate Change and Environment working group and past Vice-Chair of the UN PRME UK and Ireland Chapter. He is a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Learning and Teaching Committee and sits on the Northeast board of Business in the Community, the Prince of Wales responsible business network. He holds a PhD in Sustainable development, an MA in Academic Practice and BSc (Hons) in Environmental Management.

A reminder to colleagues that the Call for Proposals is currently open (due to close on 27 May 2022).

Booking for the conference is also open.

Further information can be found on our webpages. We will be announcing additional external speakers, including our keynote, in due course.

Academy Forum Materials 2021-22 are available on our webpages

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Our Academy Forums for the academic year have now finished. We’d like to thank our attendees for participating in the discussions.

We’ve made the handouts from this year’s forums available on our webpages.

The handouts contain key theoretical frameworks as well as practical case studies and colleagues’ reflections on their own teaching.

Topics discussed this year:

Owing to the success of the format and the attendance, we’re looking to increase the number of academy forums on offer next academic year. If you’ve got a topic related to learning and teaching that you’d like to discuss with colleagues, then drop us an email (lteu@aber.ac.uk).