Darragh Sinnott, GMIT Letterfrack is the overall winner of the National Forum’s 2015 Teaching and Learning Teaching Expert Award Design Competition. This year’s runner-up award goes to Zuzana Jezikova, Limerick School of Art & Design. Commenting as this year’s Design Competition winners were announced, Dr Terry Maguire, Director of the National Forum said: “The Forum…
The National Forum for Teaching and Learning and The Design and Crafts Council of Ireland today (Thursday 24 September 2015) jointly announced the shortlist for The 2015 Teaching Expert Award Design Competition. Darragh Sinnott , Galway Mayo Institute of Technology & Zuzana Jezikova Limerick School Art & Design have both been selected for this year’s…
The winner of the Teaching Expert Award Design Competition will be announced on the 24th of September.
For full details of the design competition click here
This project is a case study of the experiences of students in the transition to higher education drawn from four higher education institutions, Trinity College Dublin, Limerick Institute of Technology, Mary Immaculate College and University of Limerick. The aims of the project were to review the ways in which students are best prepared to participate…
This project reports on a systematic survey of existing qualitative data on student non-completion gathered by 16 Irish higher education institutions, including Universities, Institutes of Technology and HECA Colleges. The findings of the current qualitative study identified five core themes which are significant in terms of student non-completion: course, personal, financial, medical/health and family. Of…
Project 1 This report provides a considered account of some of the key issues which influence the sharing of open educational resources. These include questions of awareness and understanding of open educational resources at individual as well as institutional level, and the value placed on openness as a positive incentive for academic engagement. Acknowledging the complex interplay between…
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for this year’s National Seminar Series (2015/2016). The National Seminar series gives many of those working in higher education the opportunity to connect with national colleagues around shared interests in both research and practice, and to hear from national and international experts in different areas…
Surrounded as we are by technologies, in almost every aspect of our lives, it is important that we are able to make sensible decisions about what works and what doesn’t work, about what facilitates and what encumbers and, importantly, about what inspires and encourages learning and creativity. This survey provides invaluable information about the current…
The Teaching Expert information webinar is now available from the following link: https://teachingandlearning.adobeconnect.com/p7elz8xqi8d/
For more information on the Teaching Expert Awards click here
Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund 2014 The National Forum for Teaching and Learning will host an open session on June 23rd next (09.45 until 17.00, Wood Quay Venue) to showcase outcomes from the projects funded under Phase 1 of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, initiated in 2014. 20 institutions successfully secured almost €2 million…
