The 8th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

The 8^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference was held 7^th-9^th 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.

Monday 7th September - Online

Time	Event	Resources
09:15-09:45	Conference Welcome	Recording
09:45-10:45	Keynote: The Journey Towards Active Blended Learning: The Experience of the University of Northampton Professor Ale Armellini, University of Portsmouth	Recording
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-12:00	Contact, Content and Connection 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 Victoria Wright & Brandon Stennett	Recording
13:15-13:45	Adapting to the New Normal Alison Pierse & Calista Williams	Recording
13:45-14:15	Half flipped - an almost inverted classroom Heather McCreadie	Recording
14:15-14:45	Break
14:45-16:15	Roundtable on Online and Blended Practice-Based Teaching Andrew Filmer & Guests
16:15-16:45	ECA Winners	Recording / Recording

Tuesday 8th September - Online

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 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. 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 Hannah Dee, 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 Jennifer Wood	Recording

Wednesday 9th September - Online

Time	Event	Resources
09:30-10:15	'Cultural Translation' and Active Learning Alex Mangold	Recording
10:15-10:45	The ‘Linguists Toolkit’ Initiative: A Project to Promote a Peer Assisted Modern Languages Community 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 Peter Wootton-Beard	Recording
11:45-12:15	The real world in a laboratory 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