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
• 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

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.  

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

• 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

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.  

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

• 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

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.  

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

• On-going LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
• On-going FutureLearn MOOC, Blended and Online Learning Design, with Diana Laurillard, UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
• 24/3/2022 UKAT, It’s All Greek to Me! Decoding Cross-Cultural Communication on Campus
• 25/3/2022 Westminster Student Partnerships, Students as Co-creators Roadmap: Questions moving forward…
• 29/3/2022 University of Glasgow, Learning & Teaching Conference: Inclusive teaching and assessment practices

• 30/3/2022 University of Lincoln, DigiED: Futures – Online Conference
• 30/3/2022 Future Teacher Webinars, Flipped Learning – Reflected
• 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 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
• 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)
• 26-27/6/2022 Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) International Conference
• 6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

• Childs, M., O’Brien, R. & Nolan-Grant, C. (16/3/2022), FIBRES Learning Design Framework, DCAD: Educational Development Resources, University of Durham
• Hack, K. (16/2/2022), Flexible by design podcast (40-minute audio recording), Advance HE
• Havemann, L. & Roberts, V. (13/12/2021), Pivoting Open? Pandemic Pedagogy and the Search for Openness in the Viral Learning Environment, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Open University
• Mayer, R. E. (5/5/2014), Research-based principles for multimedia learning (1.5 hour video recording plus background article and slides), Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)
• Mihai, A. (16/3/2022), “Educationalist: Around the world” podcast, Episode 7: Jenae Cohn, California State University, Sacramento, USA, (38-minute audio recording)
• Stommel, J. (2022), Ungrading and Alternative Assessment
• Varga-Atkins, T. (18/3/2022), Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 18 – the one with the podcasts (blog post plus 39-minute audio recording), University of Liverpool Centre for Innovation in Education
• Veletsianos, G. & Houlden, S. (2/10/2020), Radical Flexibility and Relationality as Responses to Education in Times of Crisis, Postdigital Science Education 2, 849–862

Other

• Call for participation in podcast series, L&T ChatShow DMU
• Call for proposals 24/3/2022 Jisc Change Agents Network 2022: Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times
• 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

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.