Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Announcement

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The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to announce the theme and strands for this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.

Save the Date: this year’s conference will take place between 12^th and 14^th September 2022. It’s hoped that we will see the return of some face-to-face elements that we’ve enjoyed in the past.

This year’s conference theme is:

Designing the Teaching of Tomorrow: Innovation, Enhancement, and Excellence

Celebrating 10 years of Aberystwyth University’s Learning and Teaching Conferences

With the following strands:

Inclusive and sustainable pedagogies
Assessment validity, authentic assessment, and feedback engagement
Scaffolding skills across the curriculum and beyond
Developing a Bilingual University community
Working with students as partners to design learning
Active learning in today’s higher education landscape

We can’t believe that it’s our tenth annual conference, with the first one starting in 2013. We’ll have lots of highlights from the past ten years. Ahead of the conference, we’ll be making our archive of materials available so look out for those.

Save the date and look out for the forthcoming call for proposals, guest speakers, and booking announcements on our blog and webpages.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 16/2/2022

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

On-going LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
17/2/2022 University of Glasgow Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service, Staying Connected: A Toolkit for Effective Groupwork
17/2/2022 Media & Learning Association , Media-supported Language Teaching
17/2/2022 COGx Teacher Feature II, Interact with other educators and learn a low-prep classroom activity that cultivates curiosity, increases engagement, and promotes transfer, featuring Blake Harvard
24/2/2022 Future Teacher Talks, Online learning – what works?
24-25/2/2022 QAA, Quality Insights Conference 2022, “the conference will address three core themes: Inclusive learning communities, Assessment design and delivery, Innovative approaches to managing quality”
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
2/3/2022 Transforming Assessment, Pandemic-induced assessment changes at the Open University (UK)
3/3/2022 University of London Centre for Distance Education, The year ahead for the practitioner “The Covid-19 pandemic has rejuvenated debates around the use of learning technologies in the classroom (online or face-to-face) and resulted into the emergence of hybrid models and approaches that are predicted to permanently influence the way both distance and campus based learning are carried out.”
8-9/3/2022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
9/3/2022 AdvanceHE, Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival
6/4/2022 UDL UK and Ireland, The Elephant in the Room: Universal Design for Learning and Assessment
11-13/5/2022 Change Agents Network, CAN Conference ‘Sustaining Partnerships in Transformative Times’ (hybrid online and in person)
6-8/7/2022 Playful Learning Conference

Resources and publications

AdvanceHE, Design Thinking Podcast series (30-minute audio recordings)
Brown, S. & Sambell, K., Covid-19 Assessment Collection
Cottingham, S. (5/2/2022), No more teaching tips and tricks, Evidence for Educators: Use cognitive science to make better decisions
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (a community and curated digital resource)
Galloway, R., Hardy, J., & Brown, T. (10/2/2022), Interactive engagement and online teaching: Using the text-chat feature in digital lectures, Teaching Matters Blog, University of Edinburgh
Harvard, B. (22/5/2020), Desiring Difficulties, The Effortful Educator
Swingler, M. (3/2/2022), Generating Internal Feedback from Self and Peer Review – A Summary (blog post plus 1.5 hour video), TILE Network
University of Guelf Digital Learning Commons (n.d.), How to Give Awesome Feedback

Other

Call for papers 25/2/2022: University of Hull Annual international teaching and learning conference, Personalised Pedagogies: Inclusive, empowering and progressive Higher Education for all
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 4/3/2022: University of Birmingham HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future-Facing University Teaching
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International 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.

External Speaker: Universal Design for Learning Masterclass, Kevin L. Merry

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

On 16^th February, 2pm-4pm, Kevin L. Merry will be running a masterclass on Universal Design for Learning and its implementation at De Montfort University.

Bookings for the event are open via the CPD Staff booking page.

You can read more about Universal Design for Learning on the CAST Site.

The workshop will take place online via Teams. A link will be sent to you before the event.

Please see below for the session description and speaker biography.

Session Description

In 2015, De Montfort University adopted Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as its institution-wide approach to learning, teaching, and assessment in response to its exceptional level of learner diversity. UDL is an approach that incorporates a variety of options to allow it to be accessible and inclusive for diverse groups of learners possessing a wide variety of learning needs and preferences.

In this masterclass, Dr Kevin Merry, will introduce the “Cheese Sandwich” approach to supporting learner mastery. The Cheese Sandwich has become the vehicle by which colleagues at DMU have begun to embed UDL into the design of their teaching sessions, modules, and programmes. Specifically, Kevin will provide a series of practical activities that will help colleagues to uncover the pedagogic foundations of the Cheese Sandwich. Furthermore, Kevin will invite colleagues to begin thinking about some of the key considerations that teachers must make when planning and designing learning experiences from a UDL perspective, and how this can be done using the systems approach of the CUTLAS method.

Finally, Kevin will finish off the session by addressing the elephant in the room – the issue of universally designed assessment. By providing guidance and practical examples from De Montfort University’s own Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE), Kevin will hopefully dispel some of the myths that exist around UDL and assessment, supporting colleagues to adopt more UDL centric ways of assessing learning.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 2/2/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHEchat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
8/2/2022 POD Scholarly Reads, Reimagining the place of students in academic development, “With the founding of a Co-Creation Through Partnership Special Interest Group (SIG) within the POD Network, the time feels ripe for a discussion series on the possibilities of partnerships, with Students as Partners (SaP) representing a growing body of scholarship. What does it mean for us to be engaged in partnership, and how does this affect our roles and identities as educational developers? Join us for our Spring 2022 POD Scholarly Reads discussion series. Register here.”
8/2/2022 AbilityNet, Don’t disable me: How you can avoid creating barriers for disabled people
8/2/2022 #CreativeHE, Let’s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learning
9/2/2022 Westminster Student Partnerships, Pedagogies for Social Justice Project by Kyra Araneta
16/2/2022 University of Kent #DigiEduWebinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online
17/2/2022 COGx Teacher Feature II, Interact with other educators and learn a low-prep classroom activity that cultivates curiosity, increases engagement, and promotes transfer, featuring Blake Harvard
24-25/2/2022 QAA, Quality Insights Conference 2022, “the conference will address three core themes: Inclusive learning communities, Assessment design and delivery, Innovative approaches to managing quality”
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
2/3/2022 Transforming Assessment, Pandemic-induced assessment changes at the Open University (UK)
3/3/2022 University of London Centre for Distance Education, The year ahead for the practitioner “The Covid-19 pandemic has rejuvenated debates around the use of learning technologies in the classroom (online or face-to-face) and resulted into the emergence of hybrid models and approaches that are predicted to permanently influence the way both distance and campus based learning are carried out.”
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival

Resources and publications

Association for Learning Technology (15/12/2021), Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT), ALT
Eden Centre, London School of Economics (2022), Inclusive Education at LSE, “Inclusive Education is teaching in ways that dismantle the dominant structures within higher education embedded in whiteness, able-bodied, elite and heteronormative culture”
Harvard, B. (27/1/2022), Choke Point and Pitfalls in Studying, The Effortful Educator, review of Chew, S. L. (17/6/2021), An Advance Organizer for Student Learning: Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne.
Mak, O. (26/1/2022), The Library Peer Network: a lifeline in the education lottery, RAISE Network
Mihai, A. (21/1/2022), Time to reboot and start the new semester, The Educationalist
Quigley, A. (29/1/2022), 10 Things to Know about Teaching and Learning, The Confident Teacher
Retrieval Practice (n.d.), Download Free Resources, “In our free resources, written by cognitive scientists, we condense research on teaching strategies, why they enhance learning, and how to implement them in the classroom.”
Robertson-Hughes, C. (2/2/2022), Do you know what’s going on? The first-year undergraduate perspective, The SEDA Blog
Ruge, G., Schӧnwetter, D. J., McCormack, C. & Kennelly, R. (15/9/2021), Teaching philosophies revalued: beyond personal development to academic and institutional capacity building, International Journal for Academic Development
Sherrington, T. (7/12/2021), Five ways to: Sustain Student Attention, TeacherHead blog
University of Edinburgh, Teaching Matters, Teaching Matters Podcast series

Other

Call for papers 14/2/2022: AdvanceHE, Race Equality Colloquium 2022: Race Equality in Transformative Times: Exploring intersections of minority-racialised identity and neurodiversity
Call for papers 25/2/2022: University of Hull Annual international teaching and learning conference, Personalised Pedagogies: Inclusive, empowering and progressive Higher Education for all
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 4/3/2022: University of Birmingham HEFi, Promoting Sustainability through Future-Facing University Teaching
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

Weekly Resource Roundup – 23/1/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHE Chat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 31/1/2022 Education and Training Foundation, EdTech Accessibility Training
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
24-28/1/2022 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
25/1/2022 AbilityNet, How to deliver and sustain accessible digital learning – for HE and FE professionals
25/1/2022 SEDA, CPD and Reflective Practice – Opportunities for Meaningful Outcomes
26/1/2022 Dublin City University Teaching Enhancement Unit, Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches to Support Wellbeing
26/1/2022 National Seminar Series, Challenges for Learning Design & Teaching Practice Beyond the Pandemic with Professor Ale Armellini
28/1/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success
8/2/2022 #CreativeHE, Let’s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learning
16/2/2022 University of Kent #DigiEduWebinars, Pedagogy and Practice when Teaching and Learning Online
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest – update: now free of charge for Jisc members
14-18/3/2022 University of Warwick TEALfest, Technology-enhanced Active Learning Festival

Resources and publications

Agarwal, P. (4/1/2019), Three reasons why retrieval practice boosts learning (3-minute video), Retrieval Practice
Bovill, C. & McLaughlin, C. (17/1/2022), Learning together in a global pandemic: Practices and principles for teaching and assessing online in uncertain times (17-minute podcast), Teaching Matters
College STAR (Supporting Transition Access and Retention) (2022), Three Two One videos, “College STAR (Supporting Transition Access and Retention) is a grant-funded project that enables participants to partner in the development of initiatives focused on helping postsecondary campuses become more welcoming of students with learning and attention differences. Much of this work is made possible by generous funding from the Oak Foundation.”
Compton, M. (20/1/2022), Mobile phones 1: Education apps, Talk Teaching, Talk Tech (Note: this is the first of five linked posts about using mobile phones in teaching)
Dawson, P., Carless, D., & Lee, P. P. W. (3/2021), Authentic feedback: supporting learners to engage in disciplinary feedback practices, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46:2, 286-296
Deslauriers, L., McCarty, L. S., Miller, K., Callaghan, K., Kestin, G. (9/2019), Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (39) 19251-19257.
Edwards, K. T. & Shahjahan, R. A. (2021), Navigating student resistance towards decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy (DCP): a temporal proposal, Teaching in Higher Education
QAA (15/12/2021), Embedding Mental Wellbeing: methods and Benefits
QAA (15/6/2021), What is academic integrity? (5- minute video)
Rogers, H. (23/1/2021), Using a Course Backchannel to Supplement Teaching and Learning, Duke University Learning Innovation
Rotterman, A. & Rabidoux, S. (15/3/2017), 4 Expert Strategies for Designing an Online Course, Inside Higher Education
Sherrington, T. (16/1/2022), Rehearsal first; retrieval practice later – an important distinction, TeacherHead blog
Wason, H. & Heron, M. (17/1/2022), How we can get students to think critically and talk about it, SEDA blog
Winstone, N. E., Ajjawi, R., Dirkx, K. & Boud, D. (29/4/2021), Measuring what matters: the positioning of students in feedback processes within national student satisfaction surveys, Studies in Higher Education

Other

Call for papers 14/2/2022: AdvanceHE, Race Equality Colloquium 2022: Race Equality in Transformative Times: Exploring intersections of minority-racialised identity and neurodiversity
Call for papers 25/2/2022: University of Hull Annual international teaching and learning conference, Personalised Pedagogies: Inclusive, empowering and progressive Higher Education for all
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

New Functionality in Turnitin: Assignment Template

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Turnitin, our e-submission software, has introduced some new functionality regarding assignment templates.

It’s now possible to exclude templates from showing up in the Similarity Score.

To apply the exclusion, go to the Optional Settings in the Turnitin submission point and upload your assignment template:

Assignment Template.
Includes:
Upload template Create Custom template

There are requirements for your template:

Uploaded files must be less than 100 MB
Accepted file types for upload: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), and plain text
Templates must have at least 20 words of text

As well as uploading, you can also create a template from this interface too.

This functionality can only be applied to a submission point if there have been no submissions. Further information on using Turnitin can be found on our E-submission webpages or you’re welcome to email us (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Weekly Resource Roundup – 14/1/2022

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Online events and webinars

On-going LTHE Chat, a weekly Twitter chat about learning and teaching in higher education
Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 31/1/2022 Education and Training Foundation, EdTech Accessibility Training
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
20/1/2022 INCLUDE, Mission Accomplice: Practicing Antiracism with UDL as White Allies for Systemic Change
20/1/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – What Works? Effective Advising for Post-secondary Students
24-28/1/2022 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
25/1/2022 AbilityNet, How to deliver and sustain accessible digital learning – for HE and FE professionals
25/1/2022 SEDA, CPD and Reflective Practice – Opportunities for Meaningful Outcomes
8/2/2022 #CreativeHE, Let’s Dance! Play that funky music to facilitate learning
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest
28/2/2022 Centre for Distance Education, University of London, Supporting Student Success workshop

Resources and publications

Bhopal, K. (4/1/2022): Academics of colour in elite universities in the UK and the USA: the ‘unspoken system of exclusion’, Studies in Higher Education
Compton, M. (10/1/2022), How effective are your questions?, Martin Compton, University College London, 10-minute podcast and article
Crisp, E. (12/2021), Authentic and Effective: Rescuing Video from Its Role as the Villain of Online Learning, Media & Learning
Elliott, J. (12/2021), Using video blogs to build connection in online learning – some unexpected lessons, Media & Learning
Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (22/12/2021), inaugural issue
Scoles, J. (13/1/2022), Welcome to the January – February L&T Enhancement Theme: Online/hybrid enhancements in teaching practice , Teaching Matters blog
Sherrington, T. (3/12/2021), Five Ways to: Do Daily Review, Teacherhead (note: although this blog is mainly aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, many of the principles can be adapted for higher education, too)
Sinfield, C. S. (10/1/2022), ‘I nearly quit my degree – then I read letters from my past self’, Open University Student Stories

Other

Call for papers 18/1/2022: Duke Learning Innovation Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium, “How do we move from pandemic innovation to real, lasting transformation?”
Call for papers 21/1/2022: Warwick Learning Design Consultancy Unit, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
Call for papers 23/1/2022: University of Lincoln | LALT | Digital Education Team, DigiED: Futures
Call for papers 24/1/2022: Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Contemporary assessment practice in the new age of higher education
Call for papers 14/2/2022: AdvanceHE, Race Equality Colloquium 2022: Race Equality in Transformative Times: Exploring intersections of minority-racialised identity and neurodiversity
Call for papers 25/2/2022: University of Hull Annual international teaching and learning conference, Personalised Pedagogies: Inclusive, empowering and progressive Higher Education for all
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

Mini Conference Materials Available

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Before the vacation, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit ran their final mini conference of the year.

The theme for the mini conference was using polling software to enhance learning and teaching. If you were unable to make the event then check out the recordings on our Mini Conference webpage.

Since the University procured a licence for Vevox polling software earlier this year, we’ve seen a whole host of colleagues making use of it. In semester 1 1873 polls have been run by 136 staff members with 6485 student responses.

If you want to know more about polling software then we’ve got a Vevox webpage which has all our guidance. Kate and Jim led a webinar for Vevox on our implementation and how colleagues have made use of it in their teaching. Check out the recording on YouTube or Vevox’s own website for other case studies. You can read about Vevox’s latest updates on our recent blogpost.

The conference kicked off with a session run by Dr Christina Stanley from Chester University. Christina gave us an overview of how she’s been using polling software to boost student confidence and promote inclusivity.

Next, our client managers from Vevox, Joe Probert and Izzy Whitley gave us an update on future developments with Vevox polling software and some product enhancements that will be coming down the line.

Then we moved onto colleagues from Aberystwyth University who shared with us how they are using polling in their teaching. Dr Maire Gorman who teaches in the Graduate School and the Physics Department gave us an overview as to how polling software can be used in statistics teaching to facilitate peer learning and inter and intra-cohort bonding.

Next, Bruce Fraser Wight, from the Business School demonstrated how he has been using polling software for ice breaking activity. We were grateful to hear from two of Bruce’s students to find out how they found using polling software.

Finally, Dr Jennifer Wood from the Department of Modern Languages outlined how polling software can be used for language learning and encourage engagement.

If you’re doing something interesting with polling software, we’d love to hear from you for a potential blogpost – drop us an email on lteu@aber.ac.uk.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 6/1/2022

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Online events and webinars

Self-paced MOOC, Disability Awareness, Universal Design for Learning in Tertiary Education, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a learning design approach that recognises there is no ‘average’ learner.”
Multiple dates through 31/1/2022 Education and Training Foundation, EdTech Accessibility Training
Multiple dates through 2/2022 AdvanceHE, Inclusive learning and teaching workshop series
11/1/2022 National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Plotting your UDL Journey: getting started and moving forward
11/1/2021 WonkHE, Sealing The Cracks: Connecting With Students For Wellbeing And Success
11-12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Designing Programmes for Learning: Foundations and Aspirations, “design of curricula and assessment at programme level”, includes some case studies on students-as-partners co-design
12/1/2022 University of Nottingham, Hybrid Teaching and Learning in HE – a futuristic model or a realistic model for the future?
13/1/2022 Active Learning Network, Active Learning to Engage Students and Enhance Learning
20/1/2022 UKAT, Tutoring Matters – What Works? Effective Advising for Post-secondary Students
24-28/1/2022 University of Liverpool, Liverpool Learning Summit: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
8-9/3/3022 Jisc, Digifest

Resources and publications

Carolina (16/12/2021), Breaking the Binary: Conceptions of Sex and Gender in Undergraduate Science – A Summary (1 hour video plus other resources), LGBTQ Psychology Reading Group, TILE Network
Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities Project (EDTL) (webinar series and materials for students and staff)
Foucher, J. (17/12/2021), Gendering decolonial pedagogies and decolonializing feminist learning & teaching, Teaching Matters Blog
HEFi, University of Birmingham (4/1/2022), Recordings from 4/11/2021 Online Symposium: Adopting and Thriving, The PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education
Mihai, A. (23/12/2021), Students as reflective practitioners: a personal development journey, Times Higher Education, Campus
Nieminen, J. H. (5/12/022), Assessment for Inclusion: rethinking inclusive assessment in higher education, Teaching in Higher Education
Paterson, H. & McAleer, P. (16/12/2021), Framing Feedback Around Student Development, TILE Network

Other

Call for papers 18/1/2022: Duke Learning Innovation Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium, “How do we move from pandemic innovation to real, lasting transformation?”
Call for papers 21/1/2022: Warwick Learning Design Consultancy Unit, Technology Enhanced Active Learning Festival (TEALfest)
Call for papers 23/1/2022: University of Lincoln | LALT | Digital Education Team, DigiED: Futures
Call for papers 24/1/2022: Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Contemporary assessment practice in the new age of higher education
Call for papers 4/2/2022: Education Development Service at Birmingham City University, “Curriculum Imagination”: Decolonising HE Academic Practice Lecture Series
Call for papers 10/2/2022: Association for Learning Technology and GO-GN, 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy (OER22)
Call for papers 9/3/2022: Future of Education International Conference

Welcome to new staff joining Aberystwyth University

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Welcome to new staff joining Aberystwyth University

We’re the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit. Based in Information Services. We work with staff across the university to support and develop learning and teaching. We run a wide range of activities to do this.

All the information that you need is on theLearning and Teaching Enhancement Unit webpages. We have recently worked intensively with academic colleagues to develop solutions in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Our Supporting your Teachingwebpages will help you with various teaching solutions.

We write a blog full of the latest updates, details on events and training sessions, and resources.

If you need to get in touch with us, you can do so using one of two email addresses:

lteu@aber.ac.uk (for pedagogical and design questions, or to arrange a consultation) or

elearning@aber.ac.uk (for technical queries regarding our e-learning tools listed below)