Blog

Welcome to the ALDinHE blog aimed at all those working in the field of learning development. If you would like to write a blog, please email admin@aldinhe.ac.uk

Collective Diary 15 February 2025

Published: 14/02/2025 - Reading Time: 3 min

Categories: Collective Diary |

On the 15th of each month, we are inviting those working in the field of learning development to share their day. Write up what you have done on the 15th of the month (or your nearest working day to this date) (plus reflections) and share it with us via this short submission form. The entries will be shared here on the ALDinHE blog. In 2010-11 and 2014-15, the ALDinHE website was previously used for a collective online journal by members of the LD community. The collective journal re-launched on the 15 May 2023. You can read the journal entries for each month. The shared experiences […]

illustration of a diary

#Take5 #122 From accidents to aquariums: a compassionate approach to simulation

Published: 13/02/2025 - Reading Time: 9 min

Categories: Technology Enhanced Learning | Learning Spaces and Learning Communities | Playful and Creative Learning | Take5 |

“The world of simulation and immersive learning technologies is developing rapidly and in parallel to the existing and predicted future requirements of health and care on a global scale”.  [Enhancing education, clinical practice and staff wellbeing. A national vision for the role of simulation and immersive learning technologies in health and care HEE, 2020] This  #Take 5 reflects upon ways in which paramedic students responded to a compassionate pedagogical approach to debriefing groups after a high intensity simulation experience. Their experience through changing the ambience of the debrief transformed their session from one where students reported anxiety, insecurity where lecturing […]

Paramedic students discuss their recent experiences

#Take5 #121 Celebrating Neurodiversity: Strategies, Successes, and Stories

Published: 30/01/2025 - Reading Time: 6 min

Categories: Take5 | Events |

This #Take 5 blog is brought to you by Ed Bickle, Steph Allen and Debbie Holley from Bournemouth University as they reflect on the ALDinHE regional event held in Bournemouth during September 2024. The day brought together a range of colleagues from across the sector to review, discuss, explore, and celebrate the context of neurodiversity in HE. Friday 13th was lucky for learning developers, academics, professional services staff, doctoral students, and communities interested in neurodiversity in HE, because ALDinHE in collaboration with Bournemouth University led the way on #celebratingneurodiversity and thinking differently. The day provided an opportunity for colleagues to […]

Neurodiversity Celebration Cake

#Take5 #120 What can we learn from our pandemic teaching experiences?

Published: 16/01/2025 - Reading Time: 14 min

Categories: Reflection | Take5 |

Coulda – Woulda – Shoulda This blog post is brought to you from Nilay Balkan and is designed to be a part of an active discussion, making conscious what we have – or what we could have – learned from our pandemic practice. It is based on a talk Nilay gave at the 9th International Conference on Entrepreneurship (original slides can be viewed at this link here) , where one of the key topics at the conference was what post-pandemic higher education should look like. Don’t look now!! You might not want to hear the P word (pandemic) or C […]

Nilay Balkan

Collective Diary 15 January 2025

Published: 02/01/2025 - Reading Time: 5 min

Categories: Collective Diary |

On the 15th of each month, we are inviting those working in the field of learning development to share their day. Write up what you have done on the 15th of the month (or your nearest working day to this date) (plus reflections) and share it with us via this short submission form. The entries will be shared here on the ALDinHE blog. In 2010-11 and 2014-15, the ALDinHE website was previously used for a collective online journal by members of the LD community. The collective journal re-launched on the 15 May 2023. You can read the journal entries for each month. The shared experiences […]

illustration of a diary

Call for Papers: the ICALLD Symposium-over-time 2025

Published: 20/12/2024 - Reading Time: 2 min

Categories: Events | ALDinHE communications |

Making cases for the role of learning development/advising in changing educational landscapes ICALLD’s symposium around the clock aims to create opportunities to explore this theme with colleagues from across the world. We invite colleagues to submit proposals for sessions that help us do this. This means we are not looking for presenters who share ready-made answers! We welcome presenters who are willing and able to scaffold a discussion and orchestrate conversation around one of the two sub-themes and then share the outcomes of this discussion via the ICALLD blog. Sub-theme 1: Providing evidence of the impacts of learning development/advising Sub-theme […]

ICALLD Symposium-over-time 2025

Collective Diary 15 December 2024

Published: 13/12/2024 - Reading Time: 8 min

Categories: Collective Diary | Reflection |

On the 15th of each month, we are inviting those working in the field of learning development to share their day. Write up what you have done on the 15th of the month (or your nearest working day to this date) (plus reflections) and share it with us via this short submission form. The entries will be shared here on the ALDinHE blog. In 2010-11 and 2014-15, the ALDinHE website was previously used for a collective online journal by members of the LD community. The collective journal re-launched on the 15 May 2023. You can read the journal entries for each month. The shared experiences […]

illustration of a diary

#Take5 #119 SNAP WRAP CHAT – Closing the Loop in Course Learning

Published: 12/12/2024 - Reading Time: 6 min

Categories: Take5 | Study Skills |

Who am I to write about this? Hello, my name is Suzanne, and I am a Registered Nurse, PhD student and Associate Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia (yes, we do have lots of sunshine). I am also a recent UniSC Alumni who remembers her student days well, and what kept me on track with my studies in three degrees. What is the problem? Student engagement and interaction in a post-COVID setting is challenging for us Course Coordinators, especially as engagement is directly related to student success. Additionally, many students miss their tutorials due to work/life […]

Suzanne Volejnikova-Wenger

Research and Scholarship Development Working Group Writing Retreat

Published: 02/12/2024 - Reading Time: 2 min

Categories: Research | ALDinHE communications |

This writing retreat is free. Online in MS Teams: Wednesday 18 December 2024 9.30am – 12.30pm. Book via the Events Calendar on the ALDinHE website. The Research and Scholarship Development Working Group would like to welcome you to an online Research & Scholarship Writing Retreat. Christmas / Holiday jumpers and other festive cheer are an optional but welcome extra! This time of year is ideal to get the writing juices flowing, so why not come along and enjoy some time for writing. It is often so easy to not complete the important tasks and instead focus on the urgent tasks. […]

festive jumpers

#Take5 #118 From Statistics Anxiety to Confidence: The Power of Co-design and Collaboration between Academic and Library Support in Health Education

Published: 28/11/2024 - Reading Time: 6 min

Categories: Take5 | Assessment Feedback and Course Design | Numerical Literacy | Playful and Creative Learning | Research | Research Methodologies and Data Collection |

Studies show nursing students experience significant maths anxiety (MA) (Bull 2009; McMullan, Jones and Lea 2012); this is the ‘fear or an adverse emotional response to the idea of doing mathematics’ (Hart and Ganley 2019, p. 122). As MA is correlated with lower maths performance in nurses (Bull 2009), Dr Katie Woodhouse-Skinner (Academic Skills and Statistics Tutor) and Hannah Glenn (Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing), wanted to know whether they, as university healthcare academics and library academic support working at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), could work together to reduce MA in the healthcare curriculum, using alternative pedagogies to develop students’ […]

a person expressing maths anxiety.
Skip to content