LJMU Events and Appointments

This comprehensive session brings together best practices in online student engagement, focusing on both discussion board activities and social engagement tools within Canvas. The session aims to provide practical insights into designing engaging online activities, rooted in the experiences of LJMU staff and established distance learning practices.

Designing Interactive Discussion Boards: Learn how to create simple yet effective discussion board activities on Canvas. This includes sharing these activities with students, encouraging participation, and monitoring engagement.

Hands-On Experience: Get practical exposure by trying out various discussion board activities, enhancing your understanding of the tool's functionality and potential in engaging students.

Social Engagement in Blended Learning: Explore how to use existing Canvas tools to foster online social engagement, crucial for active blended learning environments. This segment is developed in response to the Academy's recent staff survey, highlighting the need for enhanced guidance in this area.

Practical Examples and Idea Sharing: We'll provide numerous examples of social engagement activities. There will also be opportunities to discuss and share ideas on how these can be integrated into your teaching practices.

Note: The Teaching and Learning Academy reserves the right to cancel the session if there are insufficient attendees.

Discover: Getting the most out of library resources 

Are you searching on Google and getting overwhelmed with the amount of information you are getting back?  How do you know what you are finding is the right type and quality for your assignment?  

Discover, the library search tool, is the simple way to search for relevant books, e-books, journal articles, databases and more.  

This session will show you how to access a range of resources and make the best use of the features of Discover, including advanced search, saving searches and items and creating search alerts.

So, if you are not sure how or where to start, or if you want to learn how to get better search results then this is the session for you.  

There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.

This class will take place in Teams and a link will be sent out to attendees on the day of the event.  

Drop by and ask our Maths & Stats tutors for advice on topics in mathematics, statistics, or data analysis — quantitative or qualitative — including use of software, e.g. Excel, R, SPSS, NVivo, Matlab, Python,... Just remember to bring your maths, statistics, or data analysis query with you, as well as any relevant course materials or data.

You may also like to enrol on the Maths & Statistics Canvas NCSKI02 module to find resources and recordings of classes.

We are pleased to announce the schedule and open registration for Open Research Week 2025: Monday, 24th February to Thursday 27th February 2025. Open Research Week is a series of events that discusses new, developing and current practice in all things Open Research. It is organised by Edge Hill University, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, and the University of Essex.

All events are free, and you can register for each one individually. All sessions will be recorded, so if you cannot attend, please sign up and these recordings will be sent out in due course.

As a specific call to action, please feel free to share with your colleagues, contacts and comrades that are interested in Open Research. All are welcome.

We would like to thank all speakers for sharing their time and expertise as part of Open Research Week 2025. For more information and to book please visit the Open Research Week webpage

Monday, 24th February 2025:

Opening Keynote: British Social Attitudes and ‘Dividing Lines’: 40 years of open-access research, Alex Scholes, Research Director at NatCen.

10.00-11.00 GMT/11.00-12.00 CET

Open qualitative research: challenges, limitations, and possibilities, Dr Pat Danahey Janin, University of Essex

14.00-15.00 GMT/15.00-16.00 CET

Tuesday, 25th February 2025:

Recognising and rewarding Open Research, Dr Karen Desborough, Cardiff University, Dr Delphine Doucet, University of Sunderland and Prof Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool.

10.00-11.00 GMT/11.00-12.00 CET

Open research and AI - both changing the nature of scientific research, Nicole Mwananshiku, Policy Adviser, Royal Society.

14.00–15.00 GMT/15.00-16.00 CET

Wednesday, 26th February 2025:

EndNote Online

Do you want to learn how to manage your references effectively when researching and save time when writing up your assignment? Try using the EndNote Online referencing tool.

This session will show you how to:

     
• Create an EndNote Online account;  
     
• Add references from Discover and Databases
     
• Produce a reference list in your chosen style
 

It will include live demonstrations of EndNote Online, explain its features and how to Cite While You Write in Word.

Please note - to get the most out of EndNote Online you should have a good understanding of the referencing style that you will be using in your assignments, for example Harvard. You may want to attend an Introduction to Referencing session first.  

There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.

This class will take place in Teams and a link will be sent out to attendees on the day of the event.  

This session is all about seeing if two variables are related in some way. We will look at:

• Producing crosstabulations and performing the chi-squared test of association
• Spearman’s and Pearson’s correlations
• Interpreting and writing up the results

This session will be an hour long, with a further half hour for discussion and questions.

In order to get the most out of this session, it is advised that you have a basic familiarity with how to start SPSS and input data.

Further information will be posted on the Maths & Statistics Canvas module before the class.

Note: If you are using your own computer, please make sure you have SPSS fully installed before joining the class. You can find instructions at the LJMU Software for Staff and Students download page .

Referencing

What is referencing and why do I have to do it? This session will refer to the Harvard Cite Them Right style and will:

     
• explain what referencing is
     
• highlight why and when you should reference something in your work
     
• show you how to cite sources in an assignment
     
• show you how to reference a book, a journal article and a webpage in the Harvard Cite Them Right style
     
• how to find additional information for different types of resources.
 

There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session.

This class will take place in Teams and a link will be sent out to attendees on the day of the event.