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06/10/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L

Summit of Hope.

📅 14 October 2026 - 20.00-22.00 UK BST
🌍 Online — join us from wherever you are
✨ Open to everyone interested in education

We would love you to join us—and to share the invitation with colleagues, students, friends and networks who might want to be part of the conversation.

🔗 Register here:

Come curious. Come hopeful. Come ready to imagine what might be possible.
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: #163 Laurence Morris, Reflecting on publishing his Critical Thinking Toolbox: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take-163-my-first-book-a-few-reflections-a-few-months-down-the-road/

LDP Podcasts: 24.09.26: Associate Professors Lynn Gribble and Janis Wardrop from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Together, they discuss their innovations in personalisation at scale to promote student belonging by leveraging the affordances of their LMS, as captured in their chapter in the book, Transformative Practice in Higher Education Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning, co-edited with Gita Sedghi and Nicola Grayson: https://open.spotify.com/episode/68XSxhRyJQdjOFM22vgyis?si=4q_ZekG5SUKSDXvkc3gMxQ&nd=1&dlsi=eddd44ec6e62487b

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
23.09.26: Alan Boyer talking about teaching students how to make the most of AI: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ishuY2hS9vMhgUvm3aUNW

30.09.26: Thomas Malcomson on Generalising, Specialising and Collaboration in research and teaching: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UAtHjmv5fH7CWMrEOzCc4

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF

LSE Blog 22.09.26 - Alicja Syska: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2026/09/22/bouldering-the-academic-wall/

UCL open book: Sutherland & Standen (2026) - supporting VLs: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/creating-a-framework-for-developing-sessional-teachers-in-higher-education/

Across higher education, a significant proportion of teaching is carried out by non-permanent staff, be they Graduate Teaching Assistants, Associate Lecturers, Visiting Lecturers, Postdoctoral Researchers or hourly paid staff. Their work is invaluable to the sector, yet they frequently lack access t...

29/09/2026

Join Wed 30.09.26 at 8.00 : https://lthechat.com/2026/09/27/lthechat-374-apathy-or-architecture-the-hidden-curriculum-of-time-and-space/ Colum Cronin of Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, (.bsky.social) explores how the design of time and space shapes student engagement, participation and belonging.

Join us on Wednesday 30th of September at 8.00pm (GMT/BST) with our guest contributor, Colum Cronin of Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, (.bsky.social). This on BlueSky…

24/09/2026

Dear colleagues,

What if hope could become something we practise together in education?

We are excited to invite you to the Summit of Hope, an online gathering on 14 October 2026 bringing together people who care about education and its possibilities.

The Summit grows from a simple belief: hope is active. It can help us imagine differently, connect across boundaries, and create possibilities even in uncertain and challenging times.

We want to bring together educators, students, researchers, practitioners, leaders and communities from different places and perspectives—not simply to talk about hope, but to explore what it might mean to put hope into practice across teaching, learning and research.

Expect conversation, curiosity, creativity and connection. Most importantly, expect to participate. This is a space for bringing your own experiences and questions, encountering those of others, and perhaps leaving with an idea, relationship or possibility that did not exist before.

📅 14 October 2026
🌍 Online — join us from wherever you are
✨ Open to everyone interested in education

We would love you to join us—and to share the invitation with colleagues, students, friends and networks who might want to be part of the conversation.

Please register:
https://ucgo.ucalgary.ca/T/WF/37758/ABWE8q/Register/en-US/Form.ofsys

Come curious. Come hopeful. Come ready to imagine what might be possible.

Warm wishes,
the Summit of Hope team

21/09/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L - 21.09.26

Summit of Hope - October 2026: https://padlet.com/winedge/hope-summit-october-2026-i2siqzs8uai73sws


13.08.26: # 160: LD, WP and a Summer School: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-160-how-learning-developers-can-support-widening-participation-reflections-on-a-summer-taster-for-first-generation-students/

20.08.26: #161: Paolo Oprandi - Build it and they will come - a VLE template…: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-161-build-it-and-they-will-come/

03.09.26: #162 Pen Holland … a fascinating new module about Life on Earth, designed, helping their students understand biological knowledge…: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-162-life-on-earth-how-teaching-assessment-and-feedback-can-help-educators-and-students-learn-actively-together/

LDP Podcasts: 21.08.26: Josh Thorpe: We are excited to bring you something a bit different this month on the podcast: our first comic book! Josh Thorpe, a lecturer on the Arts with Community programme at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland: AI for Students, out now in paperback! To celebrate the launch, Bloomsbury have offered all of our listeners a discount on Josh’s fabulous book - just add the code AIlearndev20 at the checkout! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kbCk7MhvbgggvbOJh0saU?si=KPAgGn9xTkmpXw5jUAtBgQ&nd=1&dlsi=b80144204f614229

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
09.09.26: , Paul Shore of Manchester University talks about team-based learning at scale. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SvTEZYoYY4nY2p8tqkkLW

16.09.26: Mark Childs talking about podcasting, pedagogy and personal development: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7tF785u9l2HCw46cAtOBxx

Teaching in HE Podcasts: https://teachinginhighered.com/

SEDA: 15.09.26: Eleanor Roseblade, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster Speaking Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Podcast Assessment in Higher Education: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/speaking-isnt-enough-rethinking-podcast-assessment-in-higher-education/

SEDA: “As you think about assessments for 2026–27, here is one tool that might help: Voice, Judgement and Taste:
Voice — Can I see you in this work? Not just a writing style, but a position, interpretation or way of making meaning that you can stand behind. Have you made the work your own? Is it appropriate for the audience and purpose? Can you explain the choices that give it your perspective rather than AI’s default voice?

Judgement — Can you decide what to trust, what matters, what to use or reject, and explain why? Have you checked what needs checking? Can you recognise when an AI output is inadequate or wrong? Can you decide when to accept, adapt or reject it — and take responsibility for that decision?

Taste — Can you tell the difference between something that is merely plausible or competent and something that is actually good — appropriate, insightful, coherent, elegant, distinctive — and explain what makes it so? Can you choose between several plausible possibilities? Can you recognise what is worth developing, and know when and how to refine it?

These may be things we have always valued in student work, but AI makes the need to surface and assess them more pressing. So, as you look at an assessment, you might ask: Where will students need to exercise voice, judgement or taste — and how will I see it?
We explore these ideas, and practical ways of making them visible in assessment, in:
Gonsalves, C., Van Vuren, S. & Gill-Simmen, L. (2026), Assessing the Irreducibly Human in Marketing Education: A Voice, Judgement and Taste Framework for the Generative AI Era, Journal of Marketing Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/02734753261454375 “

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF:
Love this by Dr Debbie Holley: https://www.profdebbieholley.co.uk/post/notions-of-hybridity-a-deeper-dive-into-the-theory

This supplementary piece from our HEPI blog takes a step back from the PAQ findings and explores some of the theoretical thinking that sits behind concepts for designing learning differently.

13/08/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L

Current favourite: Contemplative Academy: https://www.thecontemplativeacademy.com/

#159, July 2026: Zubeida Lowton is a Lecturer in Urban Studies in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her teaching contributions focus on the discipline of City Planning, an interdisciplinary field that emphasises sustainable development and the policy-making required to shape the growth of cities. In this post, Zubeida, considers the impact of role play as pedagogy: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-159-reflecting-on-role-play-as-pedagogy-teaching-negotiation-and-decision-making-in-planning-education/

LDP Podcasts: Dr Silvina Bishopp-Martin of Canterbury Christ Church University - A Case Study Analysis of the Discursive and Institutional Complexities Underpinning Learning Development Professional Practice in Higher Education: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xI7zk0IIhh69rid9H32tR?si=LDv2ZthyRleqt7JJpRCR-w&nd=1&dlsi=7c38a5007fad4fbc .

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
23.07.26: A reflection on 30 years of teaching and a few things learned along the way: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5A3dgW7RXsB7F7YIkr4eK6

Teaching in HE Podcasts
Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/a-faculty-guide-to-teaching-with-video-with-jeff-kim/

Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/everyday-acts-of-facilitation-with-beth-cougler-blom/

SEDA: The Conversation Club: LinkedIn SoTL Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/16011114/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF

IJSaP Vol 10 No 2 - July 2026: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/view/595

From our Debbie Holley https://www.profdebbieholley.co.uk/post/talk-about-tech-looking-beyond-the-digital-native-myth

HEPI argue that we need to think better about how we review and develop HE: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/25/weekend-reading-designing-for-the-future-not-just-the-crisis-a-framework-for-portfolio-review/

HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and details of how to apply. Deadline 26th July. This blog was kindly authored by Anila DeHart, Advisor and Res...

03/08/2026

- love this from our https://www.profdebbieholley.co.uk/post/talk-about-tech-looking-beyond-the-digital-native-myth

Technology is now woven into almost every aspect of higher education. Virtual learning environments, digital assessment, artificial intelligence and immersive technologies are no longer optional enhancements but central to how students learn. Reports such as the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report (2026) and th...

29/07/2026

If you are an ALDinHE member, please join us tomorrow, 30.07.26, at 3pm, when Jen Hayes (London Metropolitan University) will give a poetry reading as part of the ALDinHE Summer Fair.

The poems attendees will hear emerged from Jen's doctoral research project rooted in Appreciative Inquiry and arts‑based methods, exploring the skills, identities, and lived experiences of Learning Developers from minoritised groups in higher education.

For more information and to book a ticket, please sign in to the ALDinHE website and visit the event page: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/product/events/voices-made-visible-a-reading-of-learning-development-poetry/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jen Hayes (London Metropolitan University)

25/07/2026

HEPI argue that we need to think better about how we review and develop HE:

HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and details of how to apply. Deadline 26th July. This blog was kindly authored by Anila DeHart, Advisor and Res...

23/07/2026

- love the latest from Zubeida Lowton, Glasgow - on the power of role play - generally - and in her Urban Studies programmes: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-159-reflecting-on-role-play-as-pedagogy-teaching-negotiation-and-decision-making-in-planning-education/

Zubeida Lowton is a Lecturer in Urban Studies in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her teaching contributions

20/07/2026

UPDATES on all things T&L 20.07.26

*** Current favourites: Islands of Hope is coming - 9-11 September 2026: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-innovation-in-education/conferences/islands-of-innovation/ and https://www.feelingsound.co/

#158 Grid of Life Tool to Promote Student Resilience and Wellbeing - Natalie Mack, Nottingham: Self-reflection exercise that helps students bring balance to their lives and boost resilience and general wellbeing: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-158-grid-of-life-tool-to-promote-student-resilience-and-wellbeing/

L&T Chatshow Podcasts
08.07.26: Sara Desforges, Nooreen Makhani and Amaan Patel talking about collaborative online international learning (COIL): bringing groups of students together from different parts of the world to share ideas and work on a practical project, in this case related to law:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rUibnx83aasHLq03lpnkB

15.07.26: Vuk Vasilyevic and gives an insight to the student experience of teaching and learning: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IXRmpbpMmtK37c4lnGD6i

Teaching in HE Podcasts
07.07.26: Luke Green used Santa Claus as a metaphor for what that might tell us about grades: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/the-story-of-grades-with-luke-green/

14.07.26: Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast: https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/feedback-voice-and-ai-in-the-writing-classroom-with-anna-mills/

SEDA:
07.07.26: The value of PGCerts: Via Virna Rossi & Jessica Hancock: Symposium #1: https://padlet.com/jessicahancock8_1/pgcert-symposium-2026-value-udl00zjmzo7lyxin

08.07.26: Students lost in the network: https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/lost-in-the-network/

OTHER INTERESTING STUFF
Publishing as evolving collective infrastructure: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1918

Catalina Neculai, James N. Corcoran and Bojana Petrić (Eds) Academic Publishing in a Fast Changing World: https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/international/fast-changing/

Explore latest open access books and journal articles in Sociology and Science, Technology and Society, freely available on the Bristol University Press Digital platform.

Peter Bryant: the ninth essay in his Mirror University series - on the need for healing: To what end? The trauma of crisis and finding states of healing in higher education.

Expensive creative retreats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83xUDxiN6Cw

More information on this retreat - https://margaretsoraya.com/isle-...