The National Forum takes part today (Wednesday 19 June 2019) in the European First Year Experience Conference 2019 (EFYE19) and is leading a post conference event ‘National Think Tank on Student Success in Higher Education’. This post conference event is led by the National Forum, in partnership with CIT, with international expert input from the board of…
The National Forum takes part today (Monday 17 June 2019) in the European First Year Experience Conference 2019 (EFYE19) and is facilitating two workshops ‘Using Data to Support Student Transitions into the First Year: Explore How Learning Analytics & Big Data can be Integrated into Real World Practices’ and ‘10 things we Learnt about Transitions…
Welcome Stop, start, continue PD Prompts My T&L Space Technology Tenses A Typical T&L Day HEIku NF News Welcome Welcome to the National Forum ezine where we present voices, experiences and stories from across the higher education sector. We have included a range of formats, mostly informal, which we hope you will find professional, engaging…
Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education 2019 The Higher Education Authority, in partnership with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, has announced today a new once-off non-competitive fund for teaching and learning in higher education. The fund aligns strategically the teaching and learning…
View slide deck for this webinar A National Forum webinar “Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Licensing” took place on 11 June 2019. The webinar provided an overview of open licensing using Creative Commons licenses and featured the recently published resource, the National Forum Open Licensing Toolkit (itself an OER). Guest speaker Jennryn…
On 6 June you have the opportunity to watch a live-stream of the first set of 2018 National Forum funded projects. The live-stream will be available for all 8 project review presentations starting at 9.00 until 15.15. These projects were selected for funding as new initiatives with the potential to enhance teaching and learning in Irish…
Event for Senior Leadership from Ireland’s Higher Education Sector The Higher Education Authority in partnership with The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education will host its inaugural Leadership Masterclass “Data and its Strategic Value for Ireland’s Higher Education Institutions” on Friday 14 June 2019, Dublin. This inaugural leadership masterclass…
(Galway 13 June 2019, Dublin 23 October 2019) Starting next month, the National Forum will facilitate regional workshops in Galway and Dublin to support those in Irish higher education currently engaged in institutional policy development, or who would like to contribute to institutional policies, in the areas of digital and/or open teaching and learning. The…
Today the National Forum publishes its Open Licensing Toolkit to support the use, creation and sharing of open educational resources (OER). The toolkit is the first in a series of resources and planned events by the National Forum to support open educational resources and practices, as outlined in the recent Insight: Supporting Open Education in…
Call for Applicants for National Programme Manager Role The partners supporting the National Student Engagement Programme now seek applications for the post of Programme Manager on a fixed-term contract until 31 December 2021. Deadline for receipt of applications is 12 noon, Tuesday 14 May 2019. The National Student Engagement Programme (NStEP) was launched in 2016 to develop…
