Academy Forums 2022-23

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We’re really excited to announce our forthcoming Academy Forums for 2022-23. Building on the success of last year’s sessions, and based on feedback, we’ve increased the number of Academy Forums on offer, with 10 running across the academic year.

For those of you unfamiliar with Academy Forums, they’re informal discussions that bring colleagues together from across the University. In each session, we’ll look at a particular topic related to Learning and Teaching. We’ll facilitate the discussion and also provide resources and guidance following the Academy Forum. We then make these available on our webpages. Take a look at last year’s Academy Forum topics:

This year, we are seeing a return of some in person Academy Forums as well as having some run online via Teams. You can view the dates, session descriptions, and book your place on our booking page for the first three sessions – keep your eye out for future sessions.

We’ll be starting our Academy Forums with a discussion around Student Induction. We’ll be thinking about how you prepare students to study. What types of activities do you run in week 1 of your module to familarise your students with the content? Also, we’ll be asking colleagues to share with us how you might use technology in these interactions.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 19/8/2022

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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

August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
22/8/2022 Ulster University and ALT network, International Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Learning: Digital Pedagogies, Student Engagement, Assessment and Feedback
6-8/9/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), Annual Conference (hybrid online and in person)
7-8/9/2022 (in-person at University of Lincoln) RAISE Network: Focused on Research into Student Engagement, RAISE Annual Conference 2022 – Student as Producer: Origins and Impact
19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now
22/9/2022 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Learning, Extended reality and the future of education
26/9/2022 TILE Network, Access is not Inclusion: Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education
28/9/2022 UDL UK and Ireland Network, Institution-wide adoption of accessible, inclusive and equitable education
14-21/10/2022 UWE Bristol Higher Education Pedagogies, Policy and Practice Research Network (HEPPP), Exploring expertise in teaching in higher education: The artistry of teaching

Resources and publications

#CreativeHE Community
Cambridge University Libraries (n.d.), Reflective Practice Toolkit
Centre for Teaching and Learning, Oregon State University, Pedagogical Pragmatics: Writing a Warm Syllabus,
Clark, D. (9/10/2020), Engagement – most used yet most misunderstood word in learning?, Donald Clark Plan B
Cook-Sather, A., Bahti, M., & Ntem, A. (12/2019), Pedagogical partnerships: A how-to guide for faculty, students, and academic developers in higher education, (Elon, North Carolina: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning)
Dawson, P. (11/9/2018), Defanging Feedback by Rewriting into Action Items, CRADLE News
Dinsmore, D. L., Fryer, L. K. & Parkinson, M. M. (8/8/2022), The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful, Theory Into Practice
Duke University Learning Innovation (n.d.), Foster an Active Classroom, Duke University Learning Innovation Teaching Guides
Hinton, D. (n.d.), Teaching Enhancement Resource Curation
Kuepper-Tetzel, C. (15/8/2022), TILE Seminar Talks | Autumn/Winter 2022, University of Glasgow TILE Network
McVitty, K. (24/01/2022), Building back learning and teaching means changing assessment, WonkHE
Nordmann, E. (5/8/2022), How to Study 2022, Dr Emily Nordmann
Schwartz, H. L. (2019), Connected teaching: Relationship, power, and mattering in higher education, ProQuest
Schwartz, H. L. (2019), Connected Teaching (40-minute audio recording), Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast series
Turnitin, Integrity Matters by Turnitin (YouTube playlist, videos approximately 30 minutes each)
Winstone, N., Bourne, J., Medland, E., Niculescu, I. & Rees, R (2021), “Check the grade, log out”: students’ engagement with feedback in learning management systems, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46:4, 631-643

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.

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.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 9/8/2022

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Online events and webinars

August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
11/8/2022 Sage Psychology, Common challenges in Thematic Analysis and how to avoid them with Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
7-8/9/2022 (in-person at University of Lincoln) RAISE Network: Focused on Research into Student Engagement, RAISE Annual Conference 2022 – Student as Producer: Origins and Impact
19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now
22/9/2022 University of London Centre for Distance and Online Learning, Extended reality and the future of education
28/9/2022 UDL UK and Ireland Network, Institution-wide adoption of accessible, inclusive and equitable education

Resources and publications

Advance HE (9/06/2022), Student Academic Experience Survey 2022
East, M., & Wood, J. (5/8/2022), Active Online Reading: Infographics (Version1), National Teaching Repository.
McDougall, J. (7/2022), Critical Approaches to Online Learning, Media & Learning
Means. B. (1/8/2022), Making insights from educational psychology and educational technology research more useful for practice, Educational Psychologist, 57:3, 226-230
Miller, M. D. (2/8/2022), Ungrading Light: 4 Simple Ways to Ease the Spotlight Off Points, Chronicle of Higher Education
Naiminen, J. H. & Carless, D. (5/8/2022), The making of feedback literacy: a critical review of an emerging concept, SlideShare
Rossiter, M. P. (13/7/2022), ‘What you mean versus what you say’ – exploring the role of language and culture in European students’ interpretation of feedback, Assessment & Evaluation 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.

UKCGE Research Supervision Recognition Programme

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Graduate School/Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit

Are you an established research degree supervisor?

Would you like your supervisory practice acknowledged at a national level?

The UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) has developed the Good Supervisory Practice Framework and the Research Supervision Recognition Programme to allow established supervisors to gain recognition for this challenging, but rewarding, role.

In May 2022, Professor Stephen Tooth from the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences became the first member of academic staff across the University to receive recognition for their approach to graduate supervision.

We are keen to support supervisors who wish to achieve this accreditation. For further details about the framework and how to apply please visit our web page https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/grad-school/supervisory-framework/ or contact Annette Edwards via the Supervisory Framework (sfastaff@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 29/7/2022

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Online events and webinars

August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
3/8/2022 INRAP, An integrated approach to feedback across disciplinary & cultural contexts
9/8/2022 Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning, CRADLE Seminar Series – Programmatic assessment hype or necessary development
11/8/2022 Sage Psychology, Common challenges in Thematic Analysis and how to avoid them with Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now

Resources and publications

Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Network (27/7/2022), AHE Conference Highlights 2022 (videos of keynote addresses and participant interviews) and Programme (some sessions have materials you can view online)
Ayres, J. (7/7/2022), Grit and Resilience in Teacher Training (11-minute video)
Bovill, C. (25/7/2022), Shaping the future curriculum with students, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Collins, M. (22/7/2022), Playful Learning 2022: Reflections and conference-in-a-pod (video recordings), Open University Learning Design Team Blog
Greenhow, C., Graham, C. R. & Koehler, M. J. (13/7/2022), Foundations of online learning: Challenges and opportunities, Educational Psychologist (also 42-minute audio recording of an interview with the authors for the APA Division 15 podcast)
Jarvis, J., Clark, K., Dickerson, C., & Thomas, R. (18/6/2020), Spotter Cards Resource: Ideas for deepening understanding of disciplinary and professional thinking and learning processes, University of Hertfordshire
Kozar, O. (13/7/2022), Feedback to students: 3 strategies to try this semester [with a bonus download], TECHE, Macquarie University’s Learning and Teaching community blog
The Thinking Shop (n.d.), Critical Thinking Cards
The Thinking Shop (n.d.), Creative Thinking Cards

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.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

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We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 10^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, which is just over a month away, 12-14 September.

This year’s conference theme, Designing the Teaching of Tomorrow: Innovation, Enhancement, and Excellence: Celebrating 10 years of Aberystwyth University’s Learning and Teaching Conferences, aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience and recognise a decade of conferences.

We’re pleased to confirm our full programme. We will have 2 online days (Monday 12 and Wednesday 14 September) and 1 in person day (Tuesday 13 September).

You can register for the conference by completing this online form.

We’re very excited to welcome three external speakers this year:

This year’s keynote speaker is presented by Kyra Araneta, Jennifer Fraser, and Moonisah Usman from the University of Westminster. They will be looking specifically at socially just staff and student partnership work.
Our second external speaker, Alex Hope, will be looking at meaningful ways in which we can embed sustainability across our curricula.
We’re delighted to welcome back our colleague, Ania Udalowska, to run a session on the Digital Learning Champions project they are running at the University of Arts London.

We have an exciting and varied programme this year with representatives from all faculties. In addition to our external speakers, we’ve got some great topics being presented by colleagues:

Round table on developing students’ digital capabilities with colleagues from Business, Psychology and Education
Academic integrity in a post-Covid landscape
Student engagement strategies
Authentic assessments
Translanguaging within a bilingual context

We look forward to seeing you at the conference, and please remember to register for the conference by completing this online form.

Parent-child modules 2022-23

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Now that the 2022-23 modules are available to staff, we can link them together at the module co-ordinator’s request. This process is known as parent-childing. Linking modules together is an effective way of dealing with separate modules with the same content so you don’t have to upload materials to two or more different modules.

This process makes one module the parent, whilst the other module(s) become a child. There’s no limit on how many modules you make a child but there can only be one parent.

If you’d like to parent-child your modules, and you’re the module co-coordinator, contact elearning@aber.ac.uk with the module codes for the parent and child modules.

Examples from Aberystwyth

Many members of staff are currently using parent-child modules across the institution. Some examples are:

Modules are taught the same content but there’s a module available for different years
Modules that bring together different degree schemes and have different module IDs, for example dissertation modules

Essentially, any module that shares the same content is ideal for parent-childing.

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: Celebrating 10 years

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This year marks the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit’s 10^th year of organising the annual learning and teaching conference. To celebrate, we’ve made all of our materials from our previous conferences available on our conference webpage.

We’ve also been looking over our stats and brought together a number of facts for you.

Since the first conference in 2013, we have had:

Over 400 different members of staff and students from Aberystwyth University present at the conference
Over 1000 attendees

Most sessions by Department:

Our top 10 academic departments presenting at the conference are:

IBERS with 41 sessions
Education with 28 sessions
Lifelong Learning with 26 sessions
Psychology with 21 sessions
Computer Science with 18 sessions
Aberystwyth Business School with 17 sessions
International Politics with 14 sessions
Physics with 13 sessions
Geography and Earth Sciences with 12 sessions
Law and Criminology with 11 sessions

Most sessions by a presenter

We’ve got a tie for first place with the greatest number of sessions run by an academic member of staff. With a total of 8 sessions, we have Education’s Steve Atherton, Psychology’s Antonia Ivaldi and Gareth Norris. Tied in fourth place, with 7 sessions, we have IBERS’ Basil Wolf and Physics and the Graduate School’s Maire Gorman. Big well done to them.

We’re really looking forward to the next 10 years of conferences. We hope you can make the conference between 12 and 14 September with a mixture of online and in-person sessions. Book your place online.

2022-2023 Modules now available to Staff

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Modules for the academic year 2022-2023 are now available for staff teaching on modules. This is in order to assist staff in preparing for the new academic year.

You may have noticed that a new tab has appeared on the top menu of your Blackboard screen:

If you’re enrolled as a staff member on the module in Astra then you should be able to view your modules for next academic year. If you’re not able to see a module that you are enrolled on then contact your Departmental Administrator. Students won’t be enrolled on the module until registration is complete.

If you have any queries regarding Course Copy, or need further assistance, please email elearning@aber.ac.uk.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 21/7/2022

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Online events and webinars

July & August Equity Unbound, MYFest Choose-your-own-learning journey of openness, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy, see programme for details
25/7/2022 ALT, Effectiveness of Online Collaborative learning
27/7/2022 Jisc, Digital storytelling: Using digital technology to capture and share stories that will impact on audience and storyteller alike (2-part workshop)
27/7/2022 HEFi Reading Group, ch. 3 “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher: Uncovering Hegemonic Assumptions” (Stephen Brookfield)
27/7/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), Transitions and belonging in higher education: duck to water, or fish out of water? with Julie Hulme and Michelle Morgan
3/8/2022 INRAP, An integrated approach to feedback across disciplinary & cultural contexts
9/8/2022 Centre for Research in Assessment & Digital Learning, CRADLE Seminar Series – Programmatic assessment hype or necessary development
11/8/2022 Sage Psychology, Common challenges in Thematic Analysis and how to avoid them with Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke
19-20/9/2022 International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), REshaping Teaching Excellence: Pandemic and the New Now

Resources and publications

Active Learning Network, Betts, T. & Oprandi, P. eds. (20/7/2022), 100 Ideas for Active Learning
Albertyn, R. (13/7/2022), Mindsets for postgraduate research: Developing doctoral intelligence, The SEDA Blog
Athabasca University (n.d.), Community of Inquiry framework
Bovill, C. (21/7/2022), Assessment and feedback in conversation with students: Towards co-creating assessment and feedback, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Buckley, A. (13/7/2022), Meaningful feedback on assessment: Taking the long view, Teaching Insights Improving Student Learning, Oxford-Brookes Institute
Cariola, L. & Lai, T. (18/7/2022), Where are you from? Raising awareness of Third Culture Students in Higher Education, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Compton, M. (26/5/2021), Ungrading: a continuum of possibilities to change assessment and feedback (including 11-minute audio recording), Martin Compton, University College London
Davidson, C. N. & Katopodis, C. (20/7/2022), 10 Arguments for Inciting Learning, Inside Higher Education
Inclusive Teaching Practices (n.d.), The Community Inquiry Model, Denver University Office of Teaching & Learning
Duckworth, A. L. (3/5/2013), Grit: The power of passion and perseverance, TED talks
Fawns, T. (21/7/2022), Entangled Pedagogy Implications for Design (1-hour video), ASCILITE Learning Design SIG monthly webinar
Gibbs, L. (13/3/2019), Getting Rid of Grades (chapter from Blum, S. (ed.) (12/2020), Ungrading, West Virginia University Press), OU Digital Teaching
H5P: Create, Share, and Reuse HTML5 Content in your Browser
International Learning Design Cross Institutional Network
Irish Journal of Academic Practice
Ishkova, M., Loh, V., White, G., Lawton, O., Tyson, J., & Fung, H. (5/8/2021), To Flip Or Not To Flip? Reflecting On PALPable Outcomes Of Flipping The Classroom During The Pandemic, Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9(2), 146-158.
Katopodis , C. (13/12/2018), Active Learning Activities You Can Use in Your Classroom Now, HASTAC
Nicholson, S. (n.d.), Introduction to EscapeIF Website, Educational Storytelling for Low-resource Classrooms (toolkit and 5-minute video), EscapeIF Because Play Matters
Roxå, T. & Mårtensson, K. (22/7/2009) Significant conversations and significant networks – exploring the backstage of the teaching arena, Studies in Higher Education, 34(5), 547-559
Student Relationship Engagement System (SRES) (developed by University of Sydney and University of Melbourne)
Thornborough, J. (13/7/2022), Examining the elusive ‘nexus’ between teaching and research, Higher Education Policy Institute

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.