Listed below are previous events held by ALDinHE in date order (most recent first) with links to slides, recordings and resources. Alternatively, you can click on a particular subject from the side menu, on the right, to view previous events’ resources by subject topic.
17 January 2024 – LD@3 Bridging the Gap Project with Liv Jonassen, Newcastle University
24 October 2023 – LD@3 Enhancing the academic journey: Attainment and retention with Kate Swinton, Lorraine-Marie James and Gillian Siddall, University of Northampton
20 September 2023 – LD@3 ‘In the moment’: planning for adaptive workshops with Jonathan Denham, University of Bradford.
11 July 2023 – LD@3 Reflections on Learning Development with Nel Boswood, Head of LD at Lancaster University
20 July 2023 – LD@3 Impact of 1:1 appointments on student attainment.
23 May 2023 – LD@3 Supporting students’ digital assessments: learning development and non-traditional assessments.
25 April 2023 – LD@3 The end of generic academic support? Experience sharing of two cross-course workshops at a London-based institution
28 November 2022 – LD@3 Problem Based Learning (PBL) for engaging Multi Ethnic Men as part of Social Work Education
16 November 2022 – LD@3 Reflective Writing
24 October 2022 – LD@3 Comedy of learning development, part 2
- Due to the interactive nature of this session, it was not recorded, but you can view a summary of part 1 here:
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18 July 2022 – LD@3 The opportunities and challenges of educational escape rooms
14 July 2022 – LD@3 Creating a Community of Scholarship: The Criticality Project
21 June 2022 – LD@3 How to organise and deliver a successful student-led online symposium
28 March 2022 – LD@3 The Invisible Labour of Code Switching: Assumed Skills in High School and Higher Education Teaching
16 March 2022 – LD@3 The Comedy of Learning Development
22 February 2022 – LD@3 Study Skills Diagnostic: a multi-stakeholder approach
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17th November 2021 – LD@3 Riding the Coronacoaster
14th October 2021 – LD@3 Supporting the Scholarship of Learning Development
10th September 2021 – LD@3 – Inclusive Practice in Learning Development
9th September 2021 – LD@3 – Detecting Contract Cheating Using Investigative Text Analysis
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14th July 2021 – LD@3 – What helps students learn? Understanding factors that impact transfer in a literature searching webinar
8th June 2021 – LD@3 – How learning developers can support teaching about climate change?
18th May 2021 – LD@3 – Writing for the JLDHE Compendium
15th March 2021 – Embracing the new: Women leading and influencing in VUCA times
2nd March 2021 – LD@3 – Using Google cardboard to engage students
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15th January 2021 – LD@3 – The impact of game based learning on student achievement
8th December 2020 – Supporting induction and transition in online or hybrid environments
- Event Programme
- Part 1 – Recording
- Part 1 – Online mentoring scheme to support the induction and transition (Recording)
- Part 2 – Recording
Individual session slides and links to recordings:
- Multi-level transition – Lessons learnt at NTU – Part 1 Recording – Starts at: 00:00
- Step-Ahead: Online Induction event for underrepresented groups – Part 1 Recording – Starts at: 30:15
- Getting Started at Leeds: a response to induction during the pandemic – Part 1 Recording – Starts at: 42:15
- Online mentoring scheme to support the induction and transition – Part 1 – Online mentoring scheme to support the induction and transition (Recording) – Starts at 00:00
- An Open Welcome – Part 2 Recording – Starts at 00:00
- Getting Ready to Learn – Part 2 Recording – Starts at 30:00
- Online transition and problem-based learning – Part 2 Recording – Starts at 40:10
- Bridging Induction and Courses: L7 Creativity Bootcamp for Postgraduate Students – Part 2 Recording – Starts at 1:01:55
3rd November 2020 – LD@3 – Interactive collaboration via Google Drawings
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- Padlet board including how to create the document
20th October – How to teach in a pandemic – ICALLD Symposium Webinar
28th July 2020 – LD@3: A short introduction to the HE landscape in Scotland and the different roles that LDers and ScotHELD play in it
16th July 2020 – LD@3: Supporting students’ learning in maths: three-step online assessments with increasing structural complexity
2nd July 2020 – LD@3: Using audience voting platforms in synchronous remote learning sessions
18th June 2020 – LD@3: Using escape rooms for student inductions – implications for online delivery
28th May 2020 – LD@3: Using visual sources to develop analytical thinking
27th May 2020 – LD@3: Academic writing and emotion
26th May 2020 – LD@3: Strange new worlds: repurposing librarian skills in the changing HE environment
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22nd May 2020 – LD@3: Paraphrasing as an Inherently Interpretive Act
21st May 2020 – LD@3: The Learnhigher Experience
20th May 2020 – LD@3: Revisiting Student Engagement: an analysis of students’ motivations for seeking individual learning development support
19th May 2020 – LD@3: What Makes Information Literacy Relevant to Higher Education Students?: The Kaleidoscope Effect
18th May 2020 – LD@3: Can You Teach Research in 10 Minutes? Embedding Information Literacy micro-sessions in module programmes
15th May 2020 – LD@3: Building a Program of Inclusive Practice
14th May 2020 – LD@3: Librarians’ Development as Teachers
13th May 2020 – LD@3: Does Learning Development have a Signature Pedagogy?
12th May 2020 – LD@3: The Art of Reviewing
11th May 2020 – LD@3: The Change Laboratory – an online research methodology for defining and delivering change
7th May 2020 – LD@3: Examining learner motivation and self-regulation to enhance metacognition
6th May 2020 – LD@3: Moving assessment online: resources to support staff in an unexpected distance-learning scenario
5th May 2020 – LD@3: Encouraging active reading
4th May 2020 – LD@3: Emotional Labor of Teaching Information Literacy: Impact, struggle, and strategies
1st May 2020 – LD@3: Student Blogging in Transition: Redundancy, Engagement and Meaning
30th April 2020 – LD@3: Enhancing Public Speaking Skills Using Improvisation Techniques
30th April 2020 – LD@3: CeP/CeLP application workshop
29th April 2020 – LD@3: Back to the future for The Writing Café
28th April 2020 – LD@3: Developing the ALDinHE peer mentoring scheme
27th April 2020 – LD@3: Using coaching to support first-year students’ skills development
24th April 2020 – LD@3: Special Collection Artefacts in Learning Development
23rd April 2020 – LD@3: Creative solutions to common group work problems
22nd April 2020 – LD@3: Meetup for PGRs doing research into Learning Development
21st April 2020 – LD@3: The need to read: a mismatch of expectations
20th April 2020 – LD@3: Supporting Open University students in prison
8th April 2020 – LD@3: Nevermind the ‘buzz’ quiz
6th April 2020 – LD@3: Supporting student study circles
3rd April 2020 – LD@3: Experiences of online and hybrid delivery of academic writing workshops
2nd April 2020 – LD@3: The inclusivity gap
1st April 2020 – LD@3: Surfing the wave of reflective writing: what Learning Developers can learn from EAP
31st March 2020 – LD@3: Collaboration
30th March 2020 – LD@3: Enhancing institution-wide tutorial provision through a new booking system
22 July 2019 – ALDinHE and Sigma Network Symposium on ‘Current issues in differentiating Learning Development provision’ at the University of Bedfordshire
15-17 April 2019 – ALDinHE 2019: The Learning Development Conference at the University of Exeter
24 November 2018 – BALEAP/ALDinHE Joint One-day Conference (PIM) – Academic Literacies and EAP
08 September 2014 – Regional Event – University of Bedfordshire
28 January 2014 – Look Make Learn Conference – London Metropolitan University
22 June 2012 – Embedding Skills and Integrating Learning Development day – University of Leicester
11 June 2012 – Virtual writing retreat
20 June 2011 – Specific learning difficulties in HE professional development day – University of Aston
14 January 2011 – Professional Development Networking Day – University of Leeds
Event resources by subject
- Academic Literacy
- Assessment Feedback and Course Design
- CeP / CeLP
- Digital Literacy
- Education
- Employability
- Inclusivity and Differentiation
- Induction and Transition
- Leadership and Management
- LearnHigher
- Learning Spaces and Learning Communities
- Numeracy
- Peer Assisted Learning and Mentoring
- Playful and Creative Learning
- Research
- Research Methodologies and Data Collection
- Study Skills
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Visual Literacy and Presentation Skills
- Wellbeing
- Widening Participation