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

3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
19/5/2022 UKAT, Everyone is welcome in our tutorials
24/5/2022 Blackboard, Teaching and Learning Conference Europe 2022
26/5/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Collaborative teaching and learning – inside and outside the classroom – Reflected
1/6/2022 Transforming Assessment, Student perspectives on audio feedback
8/6/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar (programme to be announced soon)
8-9/6/2022 QAA Scotland, Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible (hybrid online and in person)
9/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback webinar
13, 20, & 29/6/2022 Advance HE, Assessment and feedback summit
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

Resources and publications

Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Digital Education (DigitalEd.ie) knowledge platform. “Explore the site and discover your digital capabilities, courses and resources to enable you to teach online and support flexible learners effectively in higher education”.
Brehm, W. (23/2/2022), International Development and Education – The Student View (article with 20-minute audio recording), The Post-Pandemic University
Collins, M., Childs, M., & Jacob, M. (5/5/2022), Are learning styles the boss level zombie of neuromyths? (42-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
Cotton, D. R. E., Miller, W., & Kneale, P. (30/1/2017), The Cinderella of academia: Is higher education pedagogic research undervalued in UK research assessment?, Studies in Higher Education, 43(9), 1625-1636
Henderson, M., Boud, D., Molloy, E., Dawson P., Phillips, M., Ryan, T., & Mahoney, P. (2018). Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop – Final Report, Canberra: Australian Government Department of Education and Training
International Journal of Students as Partners (10/5/2022), 6(1)
Kleiman, P. (5/5/2022), Is a picture worth a thousand words? Incorporating the visual into your teaching, Paul Kleiman Stumbling with Confidence
Sadler, I., Reimann, N. & Sambell, K. (9/5/2022), Feedforward practices: a systematic review of the literature, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Tai, J., Ajjawi, R., Boud, D. et al. (16/12/2017), Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work. Higher Education 76, 467–481
Vines, C. (6/5/2022), ALT’s Open Education Conference, OER22 recordings of presentations at the conference

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 16/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE), RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation.
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference.
Call for proposals 31/5/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) 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.

Conference Registration now open

Registration for the tenth annual Learning and Teaching conference is now open. This year’s Learning and Teaching conference has the theme Designing the Teaching of Tomorrow: Innovation, Enhancement, and Excellence and will be taking place between Monday 12 September and Wednesday 14 September 2022.

You can register for the conference online.

Call for Proposals

Staff, postgraduate teaching assistants, and students are welcome to propose sessions on any topic relating to learning and teaching.

Submit and view the call for proposals online. Please complete this form no later than 27 May 2022.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 4/5/2022

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Online events and webinars

3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
4-6/5/2022 Jisc, Connect More: Where do we go from here? Continuing the momentum for digital transformation
4/5/2022 Transforming Assessment, Designing authentic exam questions
4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
10/5/2022 University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education, Islands of Innovation festival
11/5/2022 Quality Conversations, Second Words: Exploring Internationalism
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
12/5/2022 Advance HE, Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation
19/5/2022 UKAT, Everyone is welcome in our tutorials
24/5/2022 Blackboard, Teaching and Learning Conference Europe 2022
26/5/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Collaborative teaching and learning – inside and outside the classroom – Reflected
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)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Middleton, A. (n.d.), Active Learning Manifesto, Active Learning Network
Pérez-Espona, S., Borthwick, F., Connelly, L., & Rhind, S. (21/4/2022), Teaching approaches for decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Potter, M. & Kustra, E. (2011), The Relationship between Scholarly Teaching and SoTL: Models, Distinctions, and Clarifications, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5
Rowell, C. (28/4/2022), Where have all the students gone?, WonkHE blog
Sankey, M. D. (8/4/2022), The state of Australasian online higher education post-pandemic and beyond, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 19(2), 14-26.
Staff Development Forum, Advance HE (April 2022), SDF News Pad April 2022,
Zawacki-Richter O., Jung I. (eds) (April 2022), Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (Springer, Singapore)

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s electronic mailing list
Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
Call for proposals 16/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE), RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference

Weekly Resource Roundup – 22/4/2022

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Online events and webinars

25-29/4/2022 Active Learning Network, Online Global Festival of Active Learning
25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
26/4/2022 QAA, The Role of EdTech in Creating Inclusive Assessment and Feedback Practices
26-28/4/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), OER Conference
27/4/2022 EAT-Erasmus, Case-Study Showcase for colleagues using the EAT Framework to enhance assessment and feedback
27/4/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series: Pedagogy and Practice when teaching and learning Online, University of Kent, featuring Diana Laurillard on learning design, and more talks
29/4/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Knowing what they know – getting feedback from students – Reflected
3-24/5/2022 Birmingham City University, Decolonising HE Academic Practice – Lectures, Provocations, and Roundtables
4-6/5/2022 Jisc, Connect More: Where do we go from here? Continuing the momentum for digital transformation
4/5/2022 Transforming Assessment, Designing authentic exam questions
4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
12/5/2022 Advance HE, Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation
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)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Cohn, J. & Kalir, R. (11/4/2022), Why we need a socially responsible approach to ‘social reading’, The Hechinger Report: Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education
Esterhazy, R., de Lange. T. & Damşa, C. (21/10/2021), Performing teacher feedback literacy in peer mentoring meetings, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Evans, C. (2022), EAT Framework (Assessment Literacy, Assessment Feedback, Assessment Design), EAT-Erasmus
Goodacre, R. (1/24/2019), Music to Enjoy Science Lectures By, The Analytical Scientist
Melia, C. (5/4/2022), Sparking a passion for digital skills: a tried and tested approach to developing staff confidence, Jisc Member Stories
Nicol, D. (18/10/2020), The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46:5, 756-778
Power, J., Conway, P., Gallchóir, C. O, Young, A.-M. & Hayes, M. (17/4/2022), Illusions of online readiness: the counter-intuitive impact of rapid immersion in digital learning due to COVID-19, Irish Educational Studies
Reis, C. (29/7/2021), Big-class energy: how to get large groups learning by doing, not just listening, THE Campus
Reis, C (28/3/2021), Talking Student Engagement Interview with Charlie Reis, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, Student Partnerships in Quality, Scotland (SParQS)
Robson, L., Gardner, B., & Dommett, E. J. (7/4/2022), Lessons from the pandemic – changing what we do in the lecture space, Media & Learning
Teaching Matters, University of Edinburgh (4/2022), Teaching Matters Newsletter: Five clear messages from the ‘Online/hybrid teaching enhancement’ series

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s electronic mailing list
Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
Call for proposals 16/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education conference on Research in Distance Education (RIDE), RIDE 2022 Accelerating innovation
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference

Component Marks Transfer

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As May starts to approach, we thought it would be useful to outline the support available for the Component Marks Transfer process. This process transfers marks from the Blackboard Grade Centre columns into AStRA’s Assessment marks per Module (STF080) page.

The tool is available in each Blackboard module and also in the Component Marks tool in MyAdmin. Departmental Administrative Staff are able to view and transfer modules for each module in their department whereas Module Co-ordinators are able to view and transfer marks for their modules.

To support the Component Marks Transfer process, we have:

Training Session on:
- 3 May 11:00-12:00

Book your place online.

If you have any questions about the process, email elearning@aber.ac.uk.

Exemplary Course Award 2021-22

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Dr Laura Stephenson, from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, has been awarded the Exemplary Course Award for the module TFM0120: Gender and Media Production.

In addition to the winner, the following modules achieved Highly Commended:

Dr Andrew Filmer from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies for the module TP33420: Performance and Architecture
Dr Maire Gorman from the Graduate School and Physics for the module PGM4310: Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis
Claire Ward from Lifelong Learning for the module XA01605: Natural History Illustration: Seed Heads

The diverse range of teaching and learning styles evidenced in this year’s applications reflects the innovative work that is taking place across the institution.

The aim of the Exemplary Course Award, now in its seventh year, aims to recognise the very best learning and teaching practices. It gives staff members the opportunity to share their work with colleagues, enhance their current modules in Blackboard, and receive feedback on to improve.

Modules are assessed across 4 areas: course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment, and learner support. The self-assessed nature of the award gives staff the opportunity to reflect on their course and enhance aspects of their module before a panel assesses each application against the rubric.

The panel and the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to thank all of the applicants for the time and effort that they have put into their applications and modules this year.

We’re looking forward to receiving more applications next year and many congratulations to the recipients of this year’s award.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 6/4/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
13/4/2022 Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, University of East London, Enabling Agency through Learning Design
18/4/2022 MIT Media Lab, Learning Creative Learning 6-week MOOC
25/4/2022 Active Learning Network, Online Global Festival of Active Learning
25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
26/4/2022 QAA, The Role of EdTech in Creating Inclusive Assessment and Feedback Practices
26-28/4/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), OER Conference
27/4/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series, University of Kent, featuring Diana Laurillard on learning design, and more talks
4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
12/5/2022 Advance HE, Student Engagement Conference 2022: Meaningful, Active Participation
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)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Collins, M., Childs, M., & Greene, T. (1/4/2022), How can the Wu-Tang Clan inform our online collaborative learning experiences? (1 hour audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogic podcast with the pop culture core
Corwin, L. A., Prunuske, A., & Seidel, S. B. (1/1/2018), Scientific Presenting: Using Evidence-Based Classroom Practices to Deliver Effective Conference Presentations, CBE – Life Sciences Education, 17(1)
Fawns, T. (2/4/2022), An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy, Postdigital Science and Education
Garnham, W. (12/1/2022), When will we ever escape the rut of outdated pedagogy?, Times Higher Education
Greene, S. M. (30/3/2022), Hybrid Courses in the Post-COVID Classroom, Inside Higher Education
Harvard, B. (17/7/2017), Learning Myths Vs. Learning Facts, APA’s Psych Learning Curve: where psychology and education connect
Merry, K. (5/4/2022), Episode 12: Antiracism and UDL with Tesha Fitzgerald (27-minute audio recording), Talking Learning and Teaching
Pagaling, R., Eaton, S. E., & McDermott, B. (4/4/2022). Academic Integrity: Considerations for Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion
Palmer, A. (6/4/2022), Repurposing hackathons to engage students as partners, The Seda Blog
Sinha T. & Kapur M. (18/6/2021), When Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Works: Evidence for Productive Failure, Review of Educational Research. 91(5):761-798
Tai, J., Boud, D., & Bearman, M. (31/3/2022), Grading students may be as easy as ABC, but evidence shows better ways to improve learning, The Conversation
University of Kent, Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars YouTube channel

Other

Subscribe to SEDA’s electronic mailing list
Call for proposals 20/4/2022 RAISE annual conference, Student as Producer: Origins and Impact
Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference

LTEU External Speaker Event: Contract Cheating Detection for Markers

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce its next External Speaker Event.

On 20 May 2022 12:30-13:30, Dr Mary Davies, Principal Lecturer in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University, and colleagues will be running a workshop on their interactive red flag checklist resource Contract Cheating Detection for Markers.

Dr Davies will be joined by Stephen Bunbury, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster, Anna Krajewska, Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Bloomsbury Institute, and Dr Matthew Jones, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Greenwich.

This workshop is designed to help staff participants detect potential contract cheating when marking. The presenters belong to the London and South East Academic Integrity Network Contract Cheating Working Group who put together an interactive ‘red flag’ checklist resource Contract Cheating Detection for Markers.

In the workshop, the presenters will explain the red flags that indicate possible contract cheating, through discussing sections of the checklist: text analysis, referencing and the use of sources, Turnitin similarity and text matching, document properties, the writing process, comparison with students’ previous work, and comparison to cohort. Participants will be provided with opportunities to practise using the checklist and to discuss effective ways to help them identify potential contract cheating in student work.

Resources from previous External Speaker events can be found on our blog.

The workshop will take place online using Microsoft Teams. Book your place online.

Please contact the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit if you have any questions (lteu@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 31/3/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
5/4/2022 CRADLE seminar series, Developing Feedback Literacy: Case Studies from Multiple Disciplines, with Professor Phillip Dawson and Dr Joanna Tai along with Development Partners Dr Kelli Nicola-Richmond and Dr Christine Contessotto
6/4/2022 AbilityNet, Introduction to Digital Accessibility
6/4/2022 UDL UK and Ireland, The Elephant in the Room: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment
7/4/2022 Warwick International Higher Education Academy, Universities and Post Pandemic Digital Praxis – Critically Reframing Education and the Curriculum
7/4/2022 HERDSA Queensland Branch, The online engagement framework: Activating students’ online learning experience, with Dr Alice Brown and Professor Petrea Redmond,
18/4/2022 start MIT Media Lab, Learning Creative Learning 6-week MOOC
25/4/2022 Surrey Institute of Education, Surrey ExciTeS 2022: Ideas for changing times: Inspiring stories in higher education
26-28/4/2022 Association for Learning Technology (ALT), OER Conference
27/4/2022 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series, University of Kent, featuring Diana Laurillard on learning design, and more talks
4/5/2022 RAISE network, Impactful Student Partnerships
5/5/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Hybrid experience & student well being
6/5/2022 SEDA, Reimagining the student learning experience – key considerations
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
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)
26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

Bali, M. (25/3/2022), Asking questions to engage students in discussions, Reflecting Allowed: Maha Bali’s blog about education
Bateman, B. (24/3/2022), EDI and decolonising initiatives in the School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Bennett, R., Stone, S. & Payne, A. L. (15/3/2022), The Importance of Trust in Nurturing Student Engagement Online, The SEDA blog
Davis, C., Fitzpatrick, M. & Parker, P. (24/3/2022), Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Reflective Practice, The SEDA Blog
Enhancing Digital Teaching & Learning in Irish Universities (28/3/2022), Student Perspective: Open Book Assessment (45-minute video)
Knight, S. (8/3/2022), What is the future of assessment and feedback?, Jisc Blog
Mihai, A. (23/3/2022), Growing together: What’s the key to a successful learning community?, The Educationalist
Mosley, N. (30/3/2022), Reflections on the last two years in UK higher education, Neil Mosley Blog
Penn, P. (22/3/2022), Paraphrasing: a short guide (10-minute video), Psychology of Effective Studying
SEDA (2022), Student Evaluation of Teaching: From Performance Management to Quality Enhancement
Talking Learning and Teaching podcast, Episode 11: Ripples on a Pond with Phil Race, (34-minute audio recording)
Thomson, S. (29/3/2022), SP@M A Framework for Developing Hybrid Education
Volk, S. (21/3/2022), Student Success Rests on an Institutional Culture of Support, After Class: Education and Democracy

Other

Call for proposals 6/5/2022 Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference, Shaping academic practice through diversity and flexibility
Call for proposals 30/6/2022 Transformative Teaching international online conference

Student Digital Experience Insights Survey

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Aberystwyth University is taking part in the Digital Experience Insights project aiming to explore our students’ experiences of technology.

It allows us to get better insights on how students use technology and benchmark our results against other HE intuitions in our sector. We can then use this information to enhance the student digital experience.

The Student Digital Insights Survey 2022 is now open until the 18^th April.

How can I encourage students to take part?

Send an email/ announcement.
Post the links in Blackboard.
Post the links on social media.

We would appreciate your help in promoting the Digital Insights Survey to all students.