The preliminary programme of events that will be facilitated by the National Forum during VIT&L Week are outlined below. As VIT&L events are scheduled by the sector (08 November – 30 November) they will be added to the calendar.
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CIRTL supports staff and students who are engaged in teaching and demonstrates academic leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In UCC that academic leadership includes an ambition for…
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Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VIT&L) Week will run from 8 to 12 November 2021. Regional events across the sector will continue until 30 November. During this period the higher…
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Chaired by National Forum board member Lewis Purser (Director, Learning & Teaching and Academic Affairs, at the IUA), the first Scholarship Hour will open with National Forum Teaching and Learning… 
Following on from the success of the inaugural MIE Virtual International Winter School in 2020, the VIT&L Week Virtual International Winter School will celebrate teaching and learning in Ireland and around the… |
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Dr. Michael Francis Ryan, - TUS Department of Quality, Teaching and Learning will provide a summary of a recent report on Students' perception of excellent teaching in HE Focus of…
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The PaPOR TRaIL project aimed to develop an open education resource (OER) on Open Research for undergraduate and Masters level students. The project involved engaging with students and supervisors to…
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This workshop will feature the following panel members who will field questions related to the role of higher education in supporting and leading the transit towards a more ‘sustainable’ society:…
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Dr Pat Henn of the ASSERT Centre, UCC offers attendees an opportunity to review a surgical and clinical skills training centre. Focus of event: tour of ASSERT centre Registration https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-virtual-tour-of-the-assert-center-university-college-cork-tickets-200610510437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
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Despite the socio-legal changes that have signalled greater acceptance of sexual diversity and gender expansive identities in the 21st century, worldwide studies highlight the enduring targeting of those with a…
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Chaired by National Forum board member, Dr Leo Casey (Director of Learning & Teaching and Education Programmes at NCI), the second Scholarship Hour will open with National Forum Teaching and… |
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The higher education (HE) sector is uniquely positioned to galvanise societal action on human rights, inclusion and sustainable development through the conscious integration of Human Rights Education and Education for…
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This interactive session will see James Northridge introduce you to the exciting new Inclusive UCC project. Our guest speaker Hector Minto, Microsoft Accessibility Evangelist, will guide you through some of…
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Ministerial launch of report and findings from the national sectoral partnership project Next Steps: Moving Forward Together Simon Harris TD, Ireland’s Minister for Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation &…
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This event sees the launch of UCC's SDG Toolkit and includes inputs from UCC President, Professor John O'Halloran, UCC staff and students as they share their reflections on the need…
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Chaired by National Forum board member, Karena Maguire (Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Communications, QQI, who will introduce the third stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr…
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Essay mills are on the increase and the temptation to engage with these when students are under pressure is real. Megan O'Connor, USI Vice President for Education will be presenting… |
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This innovative and collaborative National Forum one day seminar proposes a dialogical framework involving educational, cultural and religious experts as they explore the role of religious artefacts in creative teaching…
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The European Universities initiative offers joint curricula across multiple university campuses using an innovative, challenge based, and student-centered approach. Teaching and learning practices for these universities of the future need…
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This special VITAL event will celebrate the launch of the DigitalEd Case Study Collection. The DigitalEd Case Study publication will showcase exemplars of online and blended course design outputs produced in GMIT,…
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Mark Kelly (Head of Centre for Sustainability), Declan Feeney (IT Sligo) and Fiona Britton (Sustainability Officer, IT Sligo) who will moderate a series…
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Dublin City University (DCU) is committed to a transformative student learning experience, specifically cultivating an environment that values and recognises the importance of teaching. Accordingly, DCU is a member of… |
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Dr Eithne Hunt hosts the Brainpower showcase and launch of the Brainpower digital badge. Bookended by puberty and culturally defined adult roles, scientists and researchers now agree that adolescence extends…
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Chaired by National Forum board member, Professor Paul McSweeney (Vice-president for Learning and Teaching at UCC) who will introduce the fifth and final stage of our Gasta Marathon led by…
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This event will launch and celebrate a suite of Project Live exemplars that showcase community engaged and work related learning in action, as well as welcome our 2021/22 Project Live…
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IADT has a vibrant and creative student body, supported by an excellent academic staff. The prompts: ‘What Makes a Great Educator?’ and ‘What Makes a Great Student?’ will be given… |
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This Nationwide meet and greet is open to all international students visiting Ireland and enrolled in full time education. This includes Erasmus students as well as the broader international student… |
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Supporting students' physical and psychosocial wellbeing in higher education is a significant concern for institutions and staff alike. Aligned to the National Forum’s definition of ‘student success’, providing opportunities for… |
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Dr. Michael Francis Ryan, Sarah O'Toole and Mark O'Connor from TUS Quality, Teaching and Learning will give an overview of how the National Forum's Strategic Alignment Fund as been a…
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This online interactive seminar and workshop will feature a keynote presentation by Dr.Peter Bryant of the University of Sydney (Associate Dean Education & Associate Professor Business Education), that will explore…
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Dr. Natasa Lackovic, Lancaster University, will be joining us online via Zoom to discuss her work in the purpose and preparation of images for presentations to encourage critical thinking. On… |
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Drawing on participants’ collective experience of learning and teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, this one-day online symposium will consider how to support quality enhancement in learning and teaching post Covid…
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The shift to remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of the social dimension of education and trained a focus on the notion of presence at…
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This in-person and online hybrid session will provide an opportunity for us all to reflect on the challenges and opportunities we have/continue to face during a global pandemic in relation…
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Dr Gemma Irvine, Vice-President for Equality and Diversity at Maynooth University will share her experiences and insights on practices to date in integrating gender, EDI and Sustainable Development Goal 5…
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Hibernia College invite individuals who teach and learn within higher education in Ireland, to participate in a collaborative discussion focused on shared experiences of digitally enhanced learning. This professional dialogue… |
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The Flexible Online Learning team at LYIT will deliver a workshop that takes users through: A showcase of examples that have been created and implemented at LYIT. How to create…
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Enhancing student engagement and success is at the core of planning for a new blended learning environment, and Technological University Dublin is aiming for all stakeholders have a voice in…
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Building on the work of TU Dublin’s community of practice www.sdglitercy.ie , this one-hour workshop, which will facilitate both in-person and online participation, will provide an opportunity to kick-start conversations…
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Recent times have brought our awareness of wellbeing into sharp focus. We acknowledge its importance, but what is it exactlyand how can we practically support it within teaching and learning?… |
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Transform-EDU aims to place transformative learning centre-stage in higher education. The project has focused on innovative approaches to learning where elements of structured programmes, co and extra-curricular events are purposefully… |
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The session aims to exchange strategies and build links between two Universities (University of Adelaide and Technological University Dublin) both currently employing a Community of Practice model to encourage innovation…
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Trauma Informed Education (TIE) has long been encouraged in primary and secondary school settings. How might we apply the precepts of TIE in a third level context? Do 'content warnings'…
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Our key note presentation will focus on the role of Higher Education in developing society though engagement with civic society (third sector). A key function of Technological Universities is to… |
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This online event seeks to build upon previous National Forum seminars/webinars in 2019 and 2021, by further exploring the potential offered by new technologies to revitalise language teaching and broaden…
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Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace offers a suite of postgraduate certificate courses with a future of work focus. To facilitate real world educational value, our courses engage with a variety of…
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In the last three years we have established and developed over 30 learning communities whereby over 300 staff members across 40 departments have either initiated or joined a LC. These…
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Mental health and emotional intelligence are integral to graduate employability and career success. In this webinar, we highlight the importance of social and emotional competencies and showcase Transform EDU's co-curricular… |
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Dr Michael Francis Ryan from TUS Quality, Teaching and Learning will give an overview of the new Teaching and Learning Strategy for the Technological University of the Shannon. Focus of…
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DCU and UL are delighted to launch the interactive tool designed by educators and learners, for educators and learners, through engagement in a national community of practice. It was evident…
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Virtual environments and augmented reality offer the construction industry the luxury of experiencing and coordinating proposed projects before committing to the real thing. Furthermore, it provides educators with another tool…
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This session will address the question, 'What makes an effective and collaborative community of UDL researchers and practitioners.' The session will draw on the experiences of the international collaboratory INCLUDE…
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This event will involve developing an awareness around embedding gender equality across teaching and learning for academics in teacher education. In general, teacher educators have not received any formal training…
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This event will involve developing an awareness around embedding gender equality across teaching and learning for academics in teacher education. The seminar will involve presentations from Lecturers and Students from… |
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The disciplines of the emerging Faculty of Arts and Humanities wish to best recognise practice in online learning due to the pandemic, take time to reflect on the experience, and…
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Postgraduate nurse/midwife education has been shown to enhance patient outcomes through the provision of care by nurses/midwives who have more knowledge, an increased ability to critically think their way through…
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The evolution of higher education from a grade centred to a learning experience driven approach is evident in the increasing number of journal article publications on topics such as student…
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Dr. Therese Moylan and the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship will be sharing findings from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Ireland recent…
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Universities have been mandated under SDG 4.7.1 to develop sustainability literature graduates. By sustainability literacy, we refer to the knowledge, skills, and mindsets that help compel an individual to become… |
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This webinar will comprise an introductory overview in the potential of Street Law as a sustainable form of public legal education for school and other community organisations. Public legal education… |
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This face to face one-day event will enable Irish language lecturers at DCU to share their teaching experiences with their colleagues and facilitate internal strategic discussions on how teaching and…
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The workshop is an opportunity to explore learning in action learning and to develop a thriving community of practice to support our collective practice and learning. The principle aim is…
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LIFT leadership is a national not for profit organisation that provides training and development to all kinds of organisations nationally. Their focus is on the promotion of core leadership values…
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The primary aim of the workshop is provide the opportunity for lecturers and students to capture and articulate the issues of engineering and construction education in light of the digital…
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This video premiere includes responses and insights from 23 participants from across the university talking about their experiences of emergency remote teaching, concentrating in this initial overview on the initial… |
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If you have a question about any aspect of VIT&L Week, please contact vital@teachingandlearning.ie.
