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Professional Recognition Writing Retreats (online)

27/01/2023 27/01/2023 / CeLP, CeP, Events / 1 minute of reading

The recognition scheme is open for applications all year round. Join us on an online writing retreat to progress your Certified Practitioner (CeP) and Certified Leading Practitioner (CeLP) award. The CeP and CeLP awards promote Learning Development as a profession in its own right. Successful applicants receive formal recognition of their specialist knowledge and practice. This demonstrates expertise to both current and prospective employers, and might also be useful when applying for HEA fellowship. Successful applicants are: There is currently no requirement to revalidate an award. However, ALDinHE reserves the right to introduce a revalidation scheme / tiered recognition categories …

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#Take5 #80 Learning Development 2030: A time for change?

26/01/2023 27/01/2023 / Events, Learning Spaces and Learning Communities, Research, Research Methodologies and Data Collection / 9 minutes of reading

This #Take 5 blog is brought to you by Ed Bickle, Steph Allen and Marian Mayer, the Learning Development (LD) team, Bournemouth University Faculty of Media and Communication, who, with the help of LD colleagues, reflect upon the workshop they delivered at the 2022 ALDinHE conference. Focusing on the concept of change, they examine how LD might look at the turn of the next decade. They begin their blog with a reflection on the excitement of being face to face with LD colleagues again. On the road It was with great excitement that the team travelled up to Northampton in June for the 2022 ALDinHE …

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#Take5 #79 Bricks behind bars: lessons from LEGO® Serious Play® workshops in prison

03/01/2023 10/01/2023 / Widening Participation, Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Differentiation, Playful and Creative Learning, Study Skills, Technology Enhanced Learning / 11 minutes of reading

This #Take5 is brought to you from Julia Reeve – and it is a beautifully detailed and thoughtful look at LEGO® Serious Play®. Julia Reeve is a National Teaching Fellow based in Leicester who works in diverse educational settings including Further, Higher, prison and community education. Her practice focuses on building confidence, connection and creative thinking via imaginative, multisensory learning. If you’ve never attended a LEGO® Serious Play® session yourself – please, please read on. Setting the scene My name is Julia Reeve, I’m an educational consultant and part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business & Law at De Montfort University, Leicester. I’m …

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#Take5 #78 Enabling an equitable HE learning experience

18/11/2022 18/11/2022 / Widening Participation, Inclusivity and Differentiation, Learning Spaces and Learning Communities / 5 minutes of reading

This #Take5 is brought to you from …Karen Welton and Jennie Dettmer, facilitators of the ALDinHE N/I CoP (read on to find out more!). They are passionate about breaking down barriers to learning in higher education for neurodivergent students. If you are interested in making a difference and being part of this dialogue, they welcome you to join the crusade! Cerebrum Celebration! We are all different and our individuality is something to be celebrated! It is this individuality which makes the world so richly diverse, informing and altering our perceptions of anything and everything. Some differences are immediately apparent, but …

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Manual notetaking and its effect on increasing student engagement and knowledge retention

09/11/2022 09/11/2022 / Study Skills / 6 minutes of reading

Ellen Spender from Swansea University was awarded ALDinHE research funding. Read more about the research below.

#Take5 #77 Talking Heads: The Learning Development Project Podcast

19/10/2022 19/10/2022 / Learning Spaces and Learning Communities, Events / 9 minutes of reading

And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ And you may ask yourself, ‘How do I work this?’ And you may ask yourself, ‘Am I right, am I wrong?’ And you may say to yourself, ‘My God, what have I done?’ Photo – screenshot of Alicja Syska and Carina Buckley recording the LDP podcast trailer for the 15th time. What The Learning Development Project podcast explores the scholarship of teaching and learning in the field of Learning Development, with the aim of unlocking practitioner knowledge and articulating what makes us a unique scholarly field. As our podcast intro …

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Examining change: The future of learning development in higher education

08/10/2022 21/10/2022 / Research / 1 minute of reading

Dr Steph Allen, Dr Ed Bickle and Dr Marian Mayer are seeking research participants from the learning development community to take part in research funded by the Society for Educational Studies. This builds upon Ed’s workshop at the ALDinHE’s 2022 conference called “Learning Development 2030. The researchers are seeking 50 LD participants Participants will self-identify as holding a learning development position within a UK HE institution Interviews Up to 15 participants / one to one semi-structured interviews lasting 60-90 minutes each. Focus groups Up to 3-4 groups (maximum eight participants per group). Each participant – two sessions of approximately …

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Researching formative feedback for assessment

08/10/2022 08/10/2022 / Research / 1 minute of reading

Would you like to be a volunteer research participant on a BALEAP research funded project researching formative feedback for assessment? Are you a foundation year lecturer or a lecturer teaching first year students? Are you interested in the use of inclusive formative assessment practices in Higher Education? Why don’t you join our team to have fun while working on a funded project? All we need from you is to reach out to 5 colleagues and ask them to complete an online survey, participate in an interview and offer 2 recorded teaching sessions (optional). We have Research Ethics approval from London …

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#Take5 #76 Writing as liberatory practice

21/09/2022 21/09/2022 / Academic Literacy, Research / 6 minutes of reading

This #Take5 is brought to you from @EvilDoctorB herself (Carina Buckley) – and her demonic sidekick @AlicjaSyska – or the other way round… (You can see them below literally inhabiting our LD third space)… We are so happy that after writing their most excellent paper on writing as liberatory practice, they agreed to write this blog for us. And oh what a blog this is fizzing with energy and joy – if this doesn’t get you writing … Unlock your knowledge and liberate LD ‘And there are so many stories to tell, too many, such an excess of intertwined lives …

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South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP)

14/09/2022 14/09/2022 / Events / 1 minute of reading

On behalf of ALDinHE’s newest partner in ICALLD – the South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP) – I would like to share news of a forthcoming virtual conference: The University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State (South Africa) will be hosting a joint conference on the 29th of September 2022. This is a virtual conference and is free to anyone who wishes to attend. The theme is, ‘Reimagining our practices: academic literacy and writing centre support for the 21st century student’. View the programme for this online conference. Register online. We ask that you please share this information …

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Professional Recognition Writing Retreats (online)

#Take5 #80 Learning Development 2030: A time for change?

#Take5 #79 Bricks behind bars: lessons from LEGO® Serious Play® workshops in prison

#Take5 #78 Enabling an equitable HE learning experience

Manual notetaking and its effect on increasing student engagement and knowledge retention

#Take5 #77 Talking Heads: The Learning Development Project Podcast

Examining change: The future of learning development in higher education

Researching formative feedback for assessment

#Take5 #76 Writing as liberatory practice

South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP)

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