The 5th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

The 5th Annual Conference Programme

The 5th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference was held between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, on Penglais Campus.

2017's conference theme was 'Promoting Staff and Student Growth.'

The three main strands of 2017's conference was:

Innovative assessment.
Providing feedback for learning.
Enricing learning through media.

Below is the time-table from 2017's conference, containing links to Panopto lecture recordings, staff profiles, PowerPoints, and more materials from the conference.

Conference Programme

Day One, Monday 10th July:

Time	Event	Location	Resource	Recording
09:00	Registration	Think Tank, Llandinam
09:30	Welcome John Grattan, Tim Woods Listening to Students and Staff: BlackBoard Refresh and Students on Tech Mary Jacob, Kate Wright	A6, Llandinam		Download Link to Recording Download Download
10:00	Keynote Speaker - Interactive Classroom Technologies and Teaching Excellence Dr Rachael-Anne Knight, City University of London	A6, Llandinam	Link to Materials
11:00	Coffee Break	Think Tank, Llandinam
11:30	Breakout A - Enhancing Student Involvement Through Action Learning Residential Workshops Robert Bowen, Sophie Bennett	B20, Llandinam	Link to Materials	Link to Recording
	Breakout B - Reflective Writing and Student Engagement Malte Urban	B22, Llandinam		Link to Recording
	Breakout C - LEGO - LEGO - The Building Blocks for Understanding Object-Oriented Programming Helen Miles	B23, Llandinam	Link to Materials	Link to Recording
12:00	Breakout A - Embedding Innovative Assessment into a New Third Year Undergraduate Module - Student and Staff Perspectives Victoria Wright, Alison Mackiewics, Antoia Ivaldi	B20, Llandinam
	Breakout B - Engaging students using OneNote Class NoteBook: Case studies of first year students Rosemary Cann and Mahruf Shohel	B22, Llandinam
	Breakout C - Learning with Lego Sarah Higgins	B23, Llandinam	Link to Materials
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch	Think Tank, Llandinam
13:00	E-learning Clinic 1 E-learning Group	B23, Llandinam
13:30	Breakout A - One-to-One-to-Many: Sharing the Fruit of Individual Instruction with the Learning Community, Using Social Media Professor John Harvey	B20, Llandinam	Link to Materials
	Breakout B - Encouraging Engagement with Outside Reading Sarah Dalesman	B22, Llandinam		Link to Recording
	Breakout C - Improving Student Perceptions of Employability Skills Development Via Online Tasks and Feedback Les Tumilty, Simon Payne	B23, Llandinam
14:00 - 15:00	Good Practice Fair - Poster Session: Teaching for Postgraduates at AU (TPAU) Annette Edwards, Ian Archer ORBYTS:Using Media to Engage School Students in Research Dr Maire Gorman Brilliant Club: Teaching Opportunities for PHD and Post Docs Dr Maire Gorman, Greg Scannell Using Online Booking Software for Tutor Meetings Dr Gareth Norris Using the Cornell Notetaking System to Enhance Student's Notetaking Skills and Revision Techniques Les Tumilty Digging a Little Deeper: Further Insights from Module - and Coure - Level Student Feedback Victoria Wright Peer Teaching and Learning in the Spanish Language Teaching Tool Jennifer Wood	Think Tank, Llandinam
15:00	Breakout A - Who's Afraid of Forums and Blogs? Marta Monda (AU), Philippe Mahoux Pauzin (Université de Lorraine)	B20, Llandinam
	Breakout B - Video Essays: Criteria, Benefits, Tools Dafydd Sills-Jones	B22, Llandinam
	Breakout C - Facing Battle: Teaching Long-Term Change Through Multiple Media Brieg Powel	B23, Llandinam		Link to Recording
15:30	Tea Break	Think Tank, Llandinam
16:00 - 17:00	Workshop A - TEL Workshop 1 Grade Centre for Sending Marks to AStRA E-Learning Group	B20, Llandinam		Link to Recording
	Workshop B - TEL Workshop 2 Panopto and AberLearn BlackBoard for Formative and Summative Assignemtns and Exams Sue Ferguson, Rob Francis	B22, Llandinam
	Workshop C - TEL Workshop 3 Introducing Turnitin's Feedback Studio E-Learning Group	B23, Llandinam
17:00	END OF THE DAY

Day Two, Tuesday 11th July:

Time	Event	Location	Resource	Recording
09:00	Registration	Think Tank, Llandinam
09:30	Welcome Elizabeth Treasure, Vice Chancellor ECA Winning Module Tours Brieg Powel, Stephen Chapman, Gareth Norris	A6, Llandinam
10:00	Keynote - Learning ina Mobile Age: Watershed or Wasted Opportunity? Dr Kevin Burden, University of Hull	A6 Llandinam	Link to Materials
11:00	Coffee Break	Think Tank, Llandinam
11:30	Breakout A - Is it Time to Stop Using Lectures? Neil Taylor	B20, Llandinam		Link to Recording
	Breakout B - Wow! We've Got to Share This. Examples of Innovative Assessments Dr Stephen Atherton, Dr Paula Hughes, Alison Pierse	B22, Llandinam
	Breakout C - Tablet Teaching 2.0: Potential for Engaging with Students and for Widening Participation Daniel Burgarth	B23, Llandinam
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch	Think Tank, Llandinam
13:00	E-Learning Clinic 2 E-Learning Group	B23, Llandinam
13:30	Keynote Speaker - Tablet Teaching 2.0: Potential for Engaging with Students and for Widening Participation Professor John Robinson, University of York	A6, Llandinam	Link to Materials	Link to Recording
14:30	Breakout A - Cefnogi myfyrwyr yn ieithyddol: heriau a chyfleoedd // Supporting Students Linguistically: Challenges and Opportunities Cathryn Charnell-White, Eurig Salisbury	B20, Llandinam
	Breakout B – How Successful is Within-Lecture (Self) Assessment of Student Engagement, Knowledge and Learning?: Experiences from Some Part 2 Geography Modules Stephen Tooth	B22, Llandinam	Link to Materials	Link to Recording
	Breakout C - Socrative in the Spanish Language Classroom Jennifer Wood	B23, Llandinam
15:00	Breakout A - (continued)	B20, Llandinam
	Breakout B - How to Arrange Digitized Readings for Your Seminars Through your Aspire Module Reading Lists Joy Cadwallader, Non Jones	B22, Llandinam	Link to Materials
	Breakout C - Audio-Feedback versus Written-Feedback: A Dialogic Insight Dr Gareth Norris, Dr Heather Norris, Alexandra Brookes	B23, Llandinam
15:30	Tea Break	Think Tank, Llandinam
16:00	Workshop A - Sut mae addasu aseiniad yn gallu annog myfyrwyr I ddefnyddio erthyglau o gyfnodolion // How Adjusting the Assignment can Encourage Students to use Journal Articles Dr Siân Lloyd-Williams	B20, Llandinam
	Workshop B - TEL Workshop 4 Effective Lectures Mary Jacob	B22, Llandinam
	Workshop C - Create and Publish a New Aspire Reading List Academic Engagement Group, Information Services	B23, Llandinam
17:00	END OF THE DAY

Day Three, Wednesday 13th July:

Time	Event	Location	Resource	Recording
09:00	Internal Keynote Speaker - Using Virtual Reality Headsets in Learning and Teaching Dr Stephen Atherton, School of Education	0.15, Physics Main	Link to Materials Link to Presentation
10:00	Coffee Break	Post Graduate Centre, Llandinam
10:30	Breakout A - Engaging the Digital Student with an (Almost) Exemplary Practice Stephen Chapman	B23, Llandinam		Link to Recording
11:00	Breakout A - Brilliant Club: Teaching Opportunities for PhD and Post Docs Dr Maire Gorman, Greg Scannell	B23, Llandinam	Link to Materials	Link to Recording
11:30	END OF THE CONFERENCE