ALDcon23 Session Chair Registration Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please sign up for ALL sessions you'd be available to chair - including more than one per parallel session. This will give us a bank of sessions chairs from which to allocate the individual sessions. LayoutYour name *Email *Friday 9th June PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 1 11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 1)11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 1) Going beyond remedial learning support: Reframing Learning Development as a catalyst for practice learning. Learning Development in a time of disruption. 11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 2)11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 2) Understanding student preferences for one to one writing appointments post-pandemic. Reflections on a peer-led Writing Café 11.35 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 3)11.35 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 3) Nurturing learning development through student feedback. ‘Learning so much…’: Exploring the student perspective on the impact of attending optional LD workshops 11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 4)11.00 - 12.00 | Papers (Option 4) How can collaborative reading techniques impact confidence and belonging? Impact assessment of academic support provided by tertiary learning advisors: Sharing an endeavour. PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 2 13.00 - 14.00 | WorkshopsWhy and how you matter: learning development as everyday leadership"Turn and face the strange": the challenges of supporting students in an ever-changing revision and exam environmentPARALLEL SESSIONS 3 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 3 14.20 - 15.20 | Papers (Option 1)14.20 - 15.20 | Papers (Option 1) Enhancing the Learning Development of Student Partners through the curriculum diversification ‘Hidden Histories’ project. Enhancing attainment and belonging at the London College of Fashion: a proactive, personalised approach to address limitations of the academic support provision 14.20 - 15.20 | Papers (Option 2)14.20 - 15.20 | Papers (Option 2) Podcasts as a Medium for Connection in Academic Libraries. Value of Reflective Learning for Nursing students: case studies of critical reflection within applied Gibbs model of reflection. 14.20 - 15.20 | Lightning Talk & Resource ShowcaseLightning Talk & Resource ShowcaseTuesday 13th June PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 4 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 1)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 1) Impact of Machine Translation software on students’ interaction and participation in class. “Tell me what you want, what you really, really want…” – What students want after non-submission of an assignment of Student Partners through the curriculum diversification ‘Hidden Histories’ project. 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 2)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 2) Students as partners: enhancing employability skills through running transition book clubs. Establishing faculty-based peer-led Pomodoro® online study communities. 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 3)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 3) Preparing Sixth-Form students for the transition into Higher Education: Developing key research skills through the EPQ. Exploring learning development from the perspectives of Black students. 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 4)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 4) Addressing the awarding gap, fostering belonging: developing enhanced academic skills support for our Birmingham Scholars. Better student outcomes at University of Portsmouth - How data informed targeted intervention can support student success. 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 5)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 5) Tales of a three-year journey to integrating academic and information literacy skills in an education course. The “Master’s Dissertation Fair”: reflections on impact and future development. 11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 6)11.30 - 12.30 | Papers (Option 6) The highs and lows of written feedback. Inhabiting the in-between space: LD and EDI policy. 11.30 - 12.30 | Lightning Talks & Resource ShowcaseLightning Talks & Resource ShowcasePARALLEL SESSIONS 5 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 5 13.30 - 14.30 | WorkshopsWhy students engage in simulation and how it prepares them for workMoving through the Third Space: Being, becoming and progressing as a Learning DeveloperSeen and heard: What role can learning development play in LGBTQ+ inclusion?Generating Threshold Concepts for impactful Learning Development: Exploring a new perspective on our workDo institutional or subject referencing style choices create barriers for students with Specific Learning Disability?Helping students to learn how to critically evaluate a source: How effective are the tools we use?Wednesday 14th June PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 6 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 1)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 1) Together in electric dreams: Inventing an online asynchronous Community of Practice for Learning Developers working with health students. Academic skills for everyone? Interactive vs accessible and open access vs personalisation. 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 2)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 2) Mattering vs Belonging and the impact of Academic Advisors: Online Professional part-time students - a case study. Manual notetaking and its effect on increasing student engagement and knowledge retention. 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 3)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 3) Ways of rethinking inclusion for disabled students in Higher Education. Transforming transitions: Learning and Researcher Developers and a whole-institution approach to successful transition. 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 4)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 4) Learning Development Mentor provision – How it’s going. Enhancing employability and engagement with the University through the Student Experience Leaders (SEL) Scheme. 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 5)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 5) Fostering belonging: An inter-disciplinary journal club. How a learning skills course addressed transition, diversity and inclusion, and a sense of belonging for mature students seeking entrance to university – Reflections of a Canadian Learning Specialist. 11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 6)11.15 - 12.15 | Papers (Option 6) Great expectations: four writing tendencies for actionable self-knowledge. Bridging the Transition Gap. 11.15 - 11.40 | Papers (Option 7)11.15 - 11.40 | Papers (Option 7) Skill Audit – The journey of exploring how diagnostic assessment could be used to promote reflective learning. PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 - View abstracts for parallel sessions 7 13.00 - 14.00 | WorkshopsIncreasing neurodiversity awareness through a Community of PracticeMaking an impact through sketchnoting – bringing the visuals to the tableAcademic Integrity and the role of Learning DevelopmentApps in LD: gifts or gimmicks?A manifesto for the metaverse: opportunities and challenges for learning developmentAssignments are getting more visual – introducing strategies for developing visual literacy in our studentsInclusive audio feedbackSubmit Choices