1. LearnHigher: opportunities to use, share and develop Sonia Hood, Janette Myers and Amanda Pocklington

2. Session Opportunities to explore the LearnHigher site Update on new features LearnHigher and your Professional Development Hands-on peer reviewing and editing Have your say and contribute to future site developments Become involved: a variety of options

3. LearnHigher – a recap Born out of a CETL (2005) with 16 HEIs In 2010 became part of ALDinHE Network & collaboration Peer-reviewed resources. To use and repurpose Staff facing

4. Our vision for LearnHigher Vision A bank of peer reviewed resources known to be effective for T&L Dynamic content Currency Easy to navigate Offering honest, reliable comments Owned by LD community Plan A system for community to contribute resources A process for peer review A rating/comments facility Ability to identify popular/new resources

5. Links to Professional Development Use and amend resources to develop your practice Contribute and get a wider audience for your resources Disseminate project outcomes- useful for funding applications Try out roles not available to you in your own institution Gather experience of working at a national level Participation in LH as evidence of PD e.g. Job applications Appraisal Promotion applications HEA Fellowship applications

6. Contributing to Learnhigher Contributor Informal reviewer Peer Reviewer Sub-editor Working Group member I’ve spotted a gap

7. Contribute a resource: try it out New feature

8. Editor Subeditor: Learning at Uni (1) Subeditor: Learning at Uni (2) Subeditor: Working with others Subeditor: Research skills Subeditor: Writing for university Subeditor: employability Subeditor: LD Research Subeditor: New areas Peer Review panel

9. Peer reviewing Have a look at the resource: (in Assessment) For conference: recognising and using feedback Consider your views on the appropriateness and usefulness of this resource What criteria are you using to judge this? How confident did you feel reviewing this? What would help you with this process? Brainstorm – what makes a good resource?

10. Peer reviewing Peer review checklist Is this useful ? Is it appropriate? Should anything be changed? So ….. what makes a good resource?

11. Become a sub-editor Browse the categories for resources on the LearnHigher site Do you feel that all areas of your T&L are covered effectively? If not, what categories do you feel are missing? Investigate in more depth an area of interest. Do you think there’s a need for more resources in the section? If so what are the underrepresented areas? Are some resources out of date, in your view? Brainstorm – discuss potential new areas for LearnHigher including ‘international student support’

12. LearnHigher and you Roles available of: Contributor Peer Reviewer Sub-editor Working Group member Register your interest with us on your form Any questions?