The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education today (Tuesday, 22 November 2016) published a briefing paper on the project Reaching Out: Why Students Leave, which was conducted in partnership with the Union of Students in Ireland. The project examined, through surveys and interviews, the motivations and experiences of 331…
We are pleased to announce that there will be 31 seminars in this series between November 1st 2016– June 30th 2017. The National Seminar series gives many of those working in higher education the opportunity to connect with colleagues throughout the sector and to focus on shared interests in both the research and practice of teaching and…
The National Forum is delighted to announce the establishment of the Íontas alliance – this is a new association for Ireland’s National Awardees of teaching excellence in Higher Education – The name used for the alliance, Íontas, is an Irish word that means amazement, wonder or surprise and it can mean all these things together.…
The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education today (Thursday, 28 October 2016) published the full report of the project Transition from Further Education and Training to Higher Education. A National Forum Insight, summarising key points from the report, was also published this week. The first enhancement theme of the…
When I was a kid there was an ad on TV for an Australian tinned fruit company that showed a man in a big bush hat desperately squeezing more and more peaches or pears into the can. He was called I’ll Get More In If It Kills Me McKenzie. If we could bring him back…
The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in partnership with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) will tonight (Thursday 27 October 2016) present 37 Teaching Hero Awards to teachers from Ireland’s higher education sector. The Awards mark the culmination of a 2016 Teaching Hero campaign that saw over…
Join us for the National Teaching Heroes Awards 2016
Thursday October 27th at the Printworks, Dublin Castle. 7pm-9pm
For your invitation please email admin@teachingandlearning.ie
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This workshop is part of the Building Capacity Through Conversations phase of the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning’s Assessment Enhancement Theme. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the concept of authentic assessment (i.e. Ashford-Rowe et al, 2014; Swaffield, 2011) and its implementation within and across disciplines in Irish higher education today. The workshop…
The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is currently compiling a panel of expertise across the Irish Higher Education sector. The panel will comprise of those: Currently working or recently retired from the Irish higher education sector with teaching and learning and/or Discipline specific expertise From privately funded Colleges, Universities, IOTI’s, Colleges of…
