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We are very happy to share issue 2 of the #LoveLD Magazine. You’ll find plenty of interest, and perhaps it will inspire you to contribute in the future! We hope you enjoy catching up with what’s going on in the community and if you have any feedback, please send us an email. Thank you to all our contributors – we couldn’t have done this without you.

This #Take5 has been brought to you from Tasha Cooper from UWE, Bristol and Anne-Marie Langford from the University of Northampton. In this post,  Anne-Marie describes the creation of a brand new ALDinHE community of practice (CoP) focused on Health and Social Care programmes. This CoP is particularly interesting in being online and asynchronous. In this post they focus particularly on the responses curated from a recent community activity that looked at Collaborative Reading Circles. LD Health CoP: Background The LD Health CoP started as a conversation at the ALDinHE conference in June 2022, where I, Anne-Marie, noticed that there were […]

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 […]

Have you been awarded as a Certified Practitioner (CeP) in Learning Development or a Certified Leading Practitioner (CeLP)? Would you like to be a reviewer for professional recognition CeP – Certified Practitioners applications? Reviewers will be expected to offer standardised feedback to applicants and adhere to a strict time frame when reviewing applications. You will be able to dip in and out of the reviewing windows so there will be no expectation to review applications each month. (You would only be asked to mentor applicants to match the level of certification you have received). The training will be online. Monday […]

This #Take5 is brought to you from our very own Lee Fallin. Lee has been exploring and playing with this AI technology for some time now – and we asked him to share his insights with the wider LD community. So – read on – and let us all join the conversation about what these revolutionary techs mean for our students and for us.  If it’s all about the ChatBots: What about Learning Development? This blog post will muse on the ‘rise of AI’ and what this means for Learning Development. I am not an expert, but I have spent much […]

This post is brought to you from two learning developers, Ralitsa Kantcheva (University of Bangor) and Ian Johnson (University of Portsmouth). It seeks to develop arguments about the future of LD and the questionable value of grades in higher education today. It proposes that rather than grading, attaching value to the student’s ability to contribute to their local and global communities could offer a promising alternative. A decade from now – What does the future of learning development hold? A recent Take5 blog post by the Bournemouth University Learning Development (LD) team (Bickle et al., 2023) drew together how various LD […]

Please explore ALDinHE’s Annual Report for 2022, celebrating what we have achieved as an association. It outlines what we do as an association and how we can work with you to further your success. 

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new #LoveLD magazine, showcasing work taking place in the field of learning development. Issue 1 is out now with 60-pages packed full of the latest scholarship & research, your LD stories, awards, news, communities of practice, #ALDcon23, books, even #LoveLD crafts, recipes & tips for your home, plus much more… Thank you to everyone who contributed content. You can find the #LoveLD magazine on the ALDinHE’s website via “News” on the menu. We welcome your feedback on the magazine and if you are interested in featuring in a future issue, please email admin@aldinhe.ac.uk We’d also […]

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 […]

We are thrilled to announce the second series of academic integrity webinars brought to you by the Faculty of Marketing and Communication (FMC) Learning Development Team at Bournemouth University in collaboration with the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education. The first series which ran between November and December 2022 was very successful with many ALDinHE members raising all sorts of enquiries and the feedback has been really positive. Below are details of the four webinars running over January – February 2023. There will be a third series running from March 2023 (details to follow). Click on the image below […]