Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On behalf of ALDinHE’s newest partner in ICALLD – the South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP) – I would like to share news of a forthcoming virtual conference: The University of Pretoria and the University of the Free State (South Africa) will be hosting a joint conference on the 29th of September 2022. This is a virtual conference and is free to anyone who wishes to attend. The theme is, ‘Reimagining our practices: academic literacy and writing centre support for the 21st century student’. View the programme for this online conference. Register online. We ask that you please share this information […]

Monday 18th July @ 3pm – 4pm Video conferencing platforms like Zoom, the video affordances of MS Teams and google handouts offer a way to connect with our students, however, their limits are the synchronous nature of the technology, the minimal shared experience and the lack of sense of place. The paradigm of adopting games and play as systems for representing and simulating real-life conditions, imparting knowledge and moral teachings, and generally nurturing social evolution, is an approach which has only recently started to be called ‘Game Based Learning (Clarke et al 2017). A recent systematic literature review by Fotaris […]

Thursday 14th July @ 3pm – 4pm Over the last twenty years, the field of learning development has been caught in circular debates about the value and effectiveness of subject-embedded versus extra-curricular or standalone activities. These debates have over-emphasised the need to consider each subject area in strict isolation. In this paper, we explore the benefits of encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to learning development. We discuss the creation of The Criticality Project, a unique six-week short course open to all students studying at Manchester Metropolitan University that has been running since 2019. Throughout this course, the concept of ‘criticality’ is […]

Tuesday 21st June @ 3pm – 4pm This webinar is based on the outcome of an ALDinHE funded project, entitled “student led online symposium on culture driven business responses to Covid-19 in Global North and South”. This project was a collaborative effort between students from York Business School (York St John University) and School of Business and Management (Queen Mary University). The main intention of using this student-centred learning approach was to actively involve students in constructing knowledge and engage them more effectively in meaningful understanding through peer collaboration. In addition, the project aimed for helping Business School students develop […]

The LearnHigher Working Group are keen to hear about and share your experiences of the LearnHigher website materials by means of short videos, which may be showcased at the forthcoming ALDcon in June. This can be achieved through three simple steps: Please choose ONE of the following themes: Submitting a resource:How did you find the process? What correspondence did you receive? Have you received/shared your certificate of submission? Promoting a resource:What is your resource? Why did you create it? Who is it aimed at? Why would you recommend it? Using a resource:How did you find your resource? Which resource did […]

Monday 16th May @ 3pm – 4pm Although it might not always feel like it, we all have the capacity and the potential to influence others and bring about change. Too often ideas of ‘leadership’ can get muddled up with ‘management’, but if we switch focus from authority to relationships, from responsibility to advocacy, and from hierarchy to mentoring, then suddenly leadership becomes a lot more accessible, to everyone. In this session, Carina and Kate share their experiences of leading and influencing and what’s worked for them, and invite you to reflect on how you might already influence others and […]