E-portfolios and reflective learning
In line with the National Forum’s strategic priority of professional development for staff, this T&L initiative focuses on augmenting educators’ skills in use of e-portfolios and the teaching of reflective…
EAT-PD: Enabling Academic Transitions through Professional Development
This T&L initiative focuses on enabling excellence during key academic transitions, i.e. academic staff as they transition into higher education (HE) and faculty leaders as they transition into and through…
NutriPD: Growing Professional Competence in Nutrition – aligning Nutrition Educators in HEIs in Ireland to the national professional development framework and developing graduate competencies to meet accreditation standards.
Nutrition and dietetics professionals are recognised experts in human nutrition science and are best placed to improve the nutrition of individuals and populations. Nutrition is a relatively new and poorly…
Assessment AS and FOR Learning – Developing Assessment Literacy
This T&L initiative encompasses the National Forum’s strategic areas of professional development and student success, focusing as it does on the enhancement of assessment literacy for students and teaching staff.…
Structured PhD Module in Research Integrity and Impact in an Open Scholarship Era
Based upon feedback from Trinity schools and students, ‘Research Integrity and Impact in an Open Scholarship Era,’ under this T&L initiative, an existing module for incoming doctoral students will be…
Gateway to Digital Assessment: Partners in Learning
Digital assessment is assessment made possible through digital technologies (JISC 2010). It requires students to apply different skills than they would in traditional assessments and can lead assessors to rethink how and…
Empowering student learning: Using comparison and feedback as drivers of self-directed learning
This T&L initiative ‘Empowering student learning: Using comparison and feedback as drivers of self-directed learning’ applies a comparison-based approach to feedback generation and use. This is transformative in nature and…
Development of a blended learning Careers and Employability (10 ECTS) module for PhD students delivered in partnership with industry
This T&L initiative will focus on the development of a blended learning 10 ECTS module on Careers and Employability for PhD students that could be used as part of a…
An Inter-Disciplinary Approach for Spatial Skill Development: Supporting First-Year Students in Working with Spatial Information
Numerous research studies have highlighted that young adolescents across the globe often struggle when learning with visual information that includes spatial data. In an increasingly visual world spatial data is…
Using electronic notebooks to enhance laboratory practical sessions, enquiry-based learning and project supervision in the School of Science.
Scientific reporting and notebook keeping are essential skills for students’ laboratory practices and their future professional careers. The use of electronic notebooks (eNBs) is becoming increasingly popular across science, pharmaceutical…
