Event News

Attend #ALDcon21 7th – 9th April 2021 There’s a lot going on this month in ALDinHE with our annual conference taking place fully online this year, 7 – 9th April 2021. If you haven’t yet booked, you can do so from our dedicated conference website. This 19th edition of our well-established and expanding annual conference is focused around four broad strands: 1. Advocacy for Learning Development 2. Creativity for change 3. Embracing diversity 4. Digital equality We have an exciting programme at this conference that will allow members to reflect upon and celebrate our past accomplishments, renew friendships and extend […]

Nominations are invited from colleagues by sending a brief (300 words) account of a practitioner’s contribution to learning development to admin@aldinhe.ac.uk Tell us how they have made a difference to students and we will celebrate their achievements. The call for applications is now open. Applications close on Monday 22nd March 2021. Our previous winner and nominees can be found here for: 2020 Some guidelines: You can nominate a colleague at your own institution or a different one. You can nominate yourself! The nominations will be reviewed by a committee of our Emeritus members The committee will be looking for a link to […]

Date / Time: Tuesday 2nd March – 3pm  Location: Online via Zoom – Meeting ID:  872 3622 6036 – Passcode: ncb97=TS Presenters: Debbie Holley and Heidi Singleton, Department of Nursing Sciences, Bournemouth University  Description:  The JISC ‘Student digital experience insights survey’ was recently released, summarising the experiences of over 20,000 HE students at a range of 28 HE institutions. One surprising finding was that only 20% of students gain any ‘real life’ simulation experiences as part of their degree, and these tend to be in engineering design and healthcare. However, our experiences show that with very basic equipment (a SMART phone with internet […]

Date / Time: Thursday 18th February – 3pm Location: Online via Collaborate Presenters: Arielle Redman, University of York Description:  Processing, understanding, and remembering information is often aided by combining images with text or keywords. These are the two essential ingredients of the majority of memes, which are, by definition, widely shared and enjoyed. Come prepared with a piece of research or key idea you have heard, read, or written. Enjoy a whistle-stop tour through the history and purpose(s) of memes, what makes one successful for your chosen audience, where memes have been used malevolently, and how you can positively contribute to making the internet […]

On the 8th of September, the University of Bedfordshire hosted a regional group for learning developers based in and around the Eastern region. This report by the organiser Steve Briggs provides an overview of the day. The event was promoted via the LDHEN JISCmail list, and attended by 16 delegates representing 8 Universities: University of Bedfordshire University of East Anglia University Campus Suffolk Anglia Ruskin University Birkbeck, University of London University of the Arts, London University of the Creative Arts Nottingham Trent University The morning included opportunities to network and to compare the  ways in which Learning Development (LD) is […]

This one day conference took place on  28th January 2014 at London Metropolitan University.  Taking inspiration from a number of recent initiatives, some 50 delegates from 14 universities explored how different kinds of visual tasks can be embedded in classrooms, tutorials and online environments across the disciplines. For further information, resources videos and photos from the day please go to the conference page at http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/look_make_learn/

One: John On Monday June 11th we ‘met’ via our computers for a trial run using ‘Flashmeeting’, the online meeting tool we would be using for an ‘experimental online writing retreat’. Martin Sedgley from Bradford University, Tracey White from Middlesex, Joe Allison from Plymouth and me. After introductions we agreed some very basic groundrules (whilst experimenting with the smiley, sad, surprised/shocked etc ‘voting’ options you can use whilst others are speaking!). We then shared our writing goals and did a kind informal contract with each other about what we hoped to achieve and which segments of the three-day retreat period […]

(Report by Michelle Reid)The ALDinHE  ‘Embedding Skills and Integrating Learning Development’ day was definitely embedded as a firm success. Over 40 delegates from as far away as Canterbury and Edinburgh gathered at the University of Leicester on 22nd June for a day of discussion and sharing ideas on what embedding means to us and how we can do it more effectively.The day was opened by Dr Mark Rawlinson (Academic Director of Leicester’s College of Arts, Humanities and Law) who made an engaging speech proposing embedding as a means of facilitating a review of the curricula with a focus on a […]

A big thank you to Ellen Pope at Aston for organising the venue and delicious lunch and for hosting and supporting the event throughout. Positive comments were made about the central location in Birmingham which was easily accessible from both the north and south of the country. We had a total of 41 attendees including presenters from as far afield as Falmouth and Ulster. Of the 41 attendees, 27 were in Learning Development and Study Advice roles, and 9 were Disability Advisors or Dyslexia Tutors, with the rest being a mixture of Lecturers, Careers Advisors and Mentors. There was a […]

Here is a small selection of photographs from this event, a follow-up to the successful CPD day held at the University of Reading in July 2010. For PDF versions of individual presentations, please click on the links in the programme below. Anna Seabourne, Rebecca Dearden, Rachel Robinson Collaborative professional development initiatives: working together to improve teaching skills in the Library. LibteachforALDinHE Peter HartleyPromoting learning development across your institution: collaborating with other services.PH ALDinHE workshop Jan2011LD strategy suggestions Stuart Johnson  Using emerging technologies to engage studentsEmerging Technologies_2011 Carol Elston and Jade Kelsall  Sharing online resources: Working together to develop students’ academic skillssharing resources David Bowers  Marketing […]