The 8th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference was held 7th-9th September 2020 online. This year’s conference theme, Enhancing the Curriculum: Inspire Learning and Invigorate Teaching! aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience. The four main strands of this year’s conference are:

  • Pivoting to Online Learning
  • Creating a Learning Community
  • Developing Wellbeing in the Curriculum
  • Embedding Active Learning
  • Working with Students as Partners

A copy of the programme is available here. 

Day One - Monday 7th September 2020

Time

Event

Resources

09:15-09:45

Conference Welcome

Recording

09:45-10:45

Conference Keynote: 

The Journey Towards Active Blended Learning: The Experience of the University of Northampton

Professor Ale Armellini, University of Portsmouth

10:45-11:15

Break

 

11:15-12:00

Contact, Content and Connection

Dr Martine Garland

Recording

12:00-12:45

Lunch

 

12:45-13:15

Can we predict academic achievement in undergraduate students? The impact of sleep quality, attendance and mental health issues

Dr Victoria Wright & Brandon Stennett

Recording

13:15-13:45

Adapting to the New Normal

Alison Pierse & Dr Calista Williams

Recording

13:45-14:15

Half flipped - an almost inverted classroom

Dr Heather McCreadie

Recording

14:15-14:45

Break

 

14:45-16:15

 

Roundtable on Online and Blended Practice-Based Teaching

Dr Andrew Filmer & Guests

 

16:15-16:45

ECA Winners

Recording / Recording

 

 Day Two - Tuesday 8th September 2020

Time

Event

Resources

09:30-10:00

Wellbeing in the Curriculum

Kate Lister

Recording

10:00-10:45

Creating skills and experience in the ‘new normal’ (a curriculum approach to work related learning)

Bev Herring & Gwen Adams

Recording

10:45-11:15

Break

 

11:15-11:45

In Class BB Tests - Formative or Summative?   

Megan Williams

Recording

11:45-12:15

Using Mentimeter to explain (physics) modelling concepts

Dr Maire Gorman

Recording

12:15-13:00

Lunch

 

13:00-13:30

What I Learned from Moving Seminars Online

Mary Jacob

Recording

13:30-14:00

Student led learning: using the ‘muddiest point’ as a tool to reflect on student progress and understanding.

Dr Marco Arkesteijn

 

Recording

14:00-14:30

MLA, Harvard, APA and more – Aberystwyth’s approach to reference support for all

Anita Saycell

Recording

14:30-15:00

Break

 

15:00-15:30

"Academic Champions of Enterprise.......why every department should have one"

Tony Orme & Jonathan Fry

Recording

15:30-16:15

Using Discord to hold online poster sessions

Dr Hannah Dee, Professor Reyer Zwiggelaar, & Nigel Hardy

Recording 1 / Recording 2

16:15-16:45

Promoting Inclusive Practice: Video CVs as a Teaching & Learning Tool in the Language Classroom

Dr Jennifer Wood

Recording

 

Day Three - Wednesday 9th September 2020

 

Time

Event

Resources

09:30-10:15

'Cultural Translation' and Active Learning

Dr Alex Mangold

Recording

10:15-10:45

The ‘Linguists Toolkit’ Initiative: A Project to Promote a Peer Assisted Modern Languages Community

Dr Jennifer Wood & Roberta Sartoni

Recording

10:45-11:15

Break

 

11:15-11:45

Embedding practice and production tasks to direct student(s) further learning - lessons from the Learning Design Bootcamp

Dr Peter Wootton-Beard

Recording

11:45-12:15

The real world in a laboratory

Dr Heather McCreadie

Recording

12:15-12:45

Engaging the next generation of scientists

Scott Tompsett, Rachel Rees, Lauren Colbeck

Recording

12:45-13:30

Break

 

13:30-14:00

Preparing your online reading list

Joy Cadwallader

Recording

14:00-15:00

Active Learning Workshop

Mary Jacob

 

15:00-15:30

Break

 

15:30-16:00

Blackboard Update

Gillian Fielding

Recording

16:00-16:15

Break

 

16:15-16:45

Wellbeing Drop-in