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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 […]

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 […]

The Leicester Law School is hosting a one-day legal education conference to cover legal skills and inequality, tech and professional skills. This is a one-day conference that is taking place with funding support from the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE). It is organised by Leicester Law School and specifically: Dr Maribel Canto-Lopez, Dr Arwen Joyce, and Dr Nataly Papadopoulou. There will be three panels with the following themes: 1. Legal Skills and Socio-economic Inequality; 2. Tech Skills in the Law School; 3. Professional Skills in the Law School. The event concludes with reflections from a panel consisting […]

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 […]

The next instalment of ICALLD’s annual Symposium-over-time is next Wednesday 16th November at 9pm. Indigenous Academic Integrity: Paradigms into Practice presented by Keeta Gladue Registration link Abstract  In Canada, Indigenous peoples are living, distinct and diverse nations and communities who carry forward the knowledge of millennia in their stories, songs, protocols, ceremonies, and histories. As Indigenous peoples we know that the knowledge we carry must be authentic, validated, and shared through principled action in order for our peoples to survive and thrive into the future.  Join us as we discuss the paradigms and principles of academic integrity based on Indigenous values. Providing the […]

Ellen Spender from Swansea University was awarded ALDinHE research funding. Read more about the research below. Following the recent pandemic when students were, once again, able to return to the in-person on campus learning environment we, as educators, chose to use various teaching strategies to engage our students. The experience of delivering online had highlighted the passive method students had reverted to when the learning environment became virtual. The most common issues we experienced were the reluctance of students to attend with their cameras switched on and that students became passive attendees who listened without taking notes. The aim of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]