National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Designing Assessment Strategies in Interprofessional Education
2020-11-18 | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Discuss the learning outcomes for interprofessional education
• Describe the principles of assessment of/as/for learning in interprofessional education
• Identify the challenges associated with designing assessments in interprofessional education
• Consider different approaches to assessment in interprofessional education
• Reflect on the application of different assessment strategies in interprofessional education in academic institutes and in practice education settings

Where are all the Migrant Women in Higher Education?
2020-11-20 | Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Engage effectively with migrant women and promote opportunities for them and their families to access Higher Education
• Identify the key agencies and support services who support migrant women and their families in accessing Higher Education
• Identify the crucial supports needed by migrant women and their families to integrate and succeed in higher education
• Mitigate the systemic obstacles facing migrant women and their families in accessing, integrating and succeeding in higher education
• Offer opportunities for migrant women and their families to access the labour market through work and graduate placement

Building Resilience into Practice Education for Health Science Students
2020-12-04 | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand how high standards of practice education can be achieved using a blended approach in a healthcare environment changed by Covid-19
• Explore pedagogically-appropriate techniques to facilitate effective feedback and assessment between students and clinicians throughout practice education in a healthcare environment changed by Covid-19
• Explore emotionally-literate approaches to addressing challenges in student behaviour and performance as part of practice education in a healthcare environment changed by Covid-19
• Be able to implement approaches and techniques that foster effective teaching, safe learning, and collaborative assessment in a healthcare environment changed by Covid-19
The hosts will:
• Understand what additional supporting resources are needed to improve teaching, learning, and assessment throughout practice education in a healthcare environment changed by Covid-19

Communities of Practice: Challenges and Opportunities for Educators
2020-12-04 | National College of Ireland, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Define the various types of communities of practice
• Introduce some existing communities of practice and highlight best practice
• Share the benefits and opportunities of communities of practice
• Identify challenges and gaps in Ireland
• Explore next steps with participants

NutriPD Seminar: Empowering Leaders in the Nutrition Profession-with a focus on competency-based assessment in nutrition education
2020-12-15 | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology , Ireland
Learning Objectives

Critically discuss the use of competency-based assessment in nutrition and nutrition-related courses. Reflect and implement learnings from competency-based assessment in Dietetic-based programmes
Understand the role NutriPD are playing in the progression of the nutrition profession in Ireland and their findings so far
Discuss how to become a member of the Association for Nutrition (AfN) with an emphasis on portfolio submissions and how to transfer from ANutr to RNutr status
Outline possible career pathways for nutritionists in Ireland, with a focus on academia, research and industry opportunities
Learn how to effectively use Twitter as a nutritionist to get evidence-based information to the public and raise awareness of AfN registered nutritionists as qualified professionals for seeking nutrition advice

Enhancing Student Engagement Through Technology Enhanced Learning
2021-01-07 | Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Provide an overview of the opportunities afforded for student engagement through Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• Present research findings which demonstrate the relationship between positive integration of technology enhanced learning and student engagement
• Facilitate a self-evaluation audit for staff of their own current capacity around the use of TEL and Virtual Learning Enviroment (VLE) platforms such as Moodle
• Encourage teaching staff to improve their digital capacity for student engagement
• Provide a workshop forum for collaborative engagement and sharing of best-practice by participants

Supporting Writing: How Supervisors Can Support Doctoral Students to Write-up
2021-01-08 | Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Implement strategies for providing writing feedback to students
• Diagnose common problems that need to be resolved in the final draft
• Provide support for the emotional challenges of writing up
• Offer advice on writing productivity to doctoral students

Relational Pedagogy and Whole-class Engagement - Can it Really be Done?!
2021-01-12 | Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand and explore the concept of relational pedagogy in a face-to-face and online environment
• Reflect on how your own experience in ‘whole-class’ engagement practices contributes to an engaged learning environment
• Consider how our own understandings and definitions of student engagement, partnership and co-creation impact our professional practice
• Identify and plan the practical/impactful methods/approaches that could be implemented in learning environments to support a whole-class resulting in a more inclusive experience for all students

Resilience Building for Students and Educators
2021-01-14 | Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Awareness of the neuroscience underpinning resilience, and its educational benefits
• Evidence-based techniques to support the development of resilience
• Mindset analysis and evaluation of stress responses
• Application of tools and techniques to promote resilience and successfully manage challenges

TEL Practices to Promote Active Learning and a Personalised Learning Experience In Large Class Environments
2021-01-15 | University of Limerick, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Demonstrate how best to engage students, in an inclusive way, in large classes resulting in greater interaction and engagement
• Recognise the importance of personalising the student learning experience
• Identify the TEL opportunities which can increase the personalisation of the student learning experience in large classes

Exploring Ethical Concerns in Electronic and IT Engineering Education
2021-01-18
Learning Objectives
• Gain industry perspective on ethical issues arising in practice in the IT and electronic engineering sector
• Align instructional strategies in IT and electronic engineering education with the realities encountered in professional practice
• Share examples of best practice in the inclusion of ethical concerns related to privacy and security in the curriculum of IT and electronic engineering programmes
• Develop new teaching instruments and initiatives incorporating ethical concerns for IT and electronic engineering education
• Foster cooperation between engineering programmes and the private sector through the development of projects incorporating ethical considerations

Telecollaboration - Creating International Bridges in Socially Distanced Times
2021-01-19 | Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Share knowledge about Telecollaboration
• Explore the potential of virtual exchange for Irish HEIs
• Discuss how telecollaboration might lead to ‘internationalisation at home’
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'Presence' in an Online Teaching Environment
2021-01-20 | Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Kerry, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Participants will be appraised of the concept of presence in an online environment
• Identification of challenges in creating online presence and provide examples of appropriate strategies
• The opportunity for participants to share experiences of online presence
• The production of a collectively curated Open Educational Resource (OER) incorporating ‘presence’ into online teaching practice

Communicating Scientific Research
2021-01-28 | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Identify your own communication and presentation style
• Develop a new strategy for discussing your research
• Develop a new perspective about career prospects and options available to you
• Recognise the need and benefits to science communication

Scalable Assessment Strategies for Digital Contexts
2021-01-28 | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Enable academic staff and those supporting teaching and learning to identify high-impact yet sustainable assessment strategies for use in a newly digital context of teaching and learning without increasing workload
• Enable audience to appraise critically the value of open-book assessment in a context of (partially) digital delivery of teaching and learning
• Develop attendee insight into principles and practices of effective open-book assessment

Developing Engineering Competencies in Industry for Undergraduates
2021-01-29 | Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Developing “culturally fit” graduates matching national employability criteria (core technical engineering competencies and deep skills)
• Structuring learning outcomes of industrially hosted modules to enable successful completion by the student, independent of the sector, and assessed in a manner, which is tailored to the needs of student outputs at an advanced level
• Demonstration of best practise on the delivery of industrial hosted modules from execution, mentoring and assessment of same ensuring student success based on continuous communication and evaluation with relevant stakeholders: students, academic staff and industrialists
• Recognition of enhanced experiential learning on student development (professional, personnel and career skills)
• Foster a culture for soon to be graduates to adopt lifelong learning (experiential or structured)

Exploring Ways to Embed the Sustainable Development Goals into the Curriculum
2021-01-29 | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology , Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Introduce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their applicability in a Higher Education context
• Critically evaluate how Higher Education Institutes can advance and lead the implementation of the SDGs
• Explore the synergies between existing sustainability initiatives e.g. Green Campus, Health Campus programmes, community engagement etc., and the SDGs
• Explore opportunities to embed the SDGs across the curriculum and beyond

Dr Doug Belshaw - Getting Started with Digital Badges
2021-02-10 | Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• An introductory understanding of the history and usage of Digital/Open Badges
• Exposure to examples of current national and international practice
• Examination of the potential uses of digital badges as alternative or micro-credentials
• Consideration of how participants might implement an organisational badging infrastructure

Email as a Pedagogic Tool
2021-02-12 | Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Critically evaluate the role of email as a pedagogic tool
• Explore approaches to managing email in a remote teaching context
• Enhance email communication between staff and students

Dr Ioanna Palaiologou: Teaching and Embedding Research in Early Childhood Education
2021-02-12 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Outline why teaching research literacy skills throughout Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes is of significant benefit to ECE students
• Identify three key ways in which research literacy skills can be integrated into the design and learning of modules across ECE programmes
• Identify three key ways in which research literacy skills can be integrated into the assessment of modules

Implementing 'Internationalisation at Home' for Student Success
2021-02-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Assess the possibilities for the enhancement of student success in their learning through ‘internationalisation at home’
• Present a case study on the successful implementation of ‘internationalisation at home’
• Identify the challenges and successes associated with the implementation of ‘internationalisation at home’
• Reflect on how these successes and challenges might transfer to an Irish higher education context and discuss their impact on curriculum design
With speakers Prof Jos Beelen, Professor of Global Learning, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Dr Don O’Neill, WIT.

Teaching the SDGs to Student Engineers Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
2021-02-18
Learning Objectives
• Explain the importance of integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their teaching activities for engineering students
• Identify challenges and barriers that can undermine integration of SDGs into their teaching activities for engineering students
• Enhance interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking and the benefits it offers students
• Develop the interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary learning and collaborative ability of engineering students
• Reflect on how they might integrate the SDGs into their teaching activities for engineering students

Beyond Traditional Assessment: A Covid CreateAthon of EPortfolio Based Assessment
2021-02-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand the benefits that accrue to ePortfolio based assessment
• Design valid, flexible, and authentic ePortfolio based activities
• Share recommendations with colleagues and other members within their institution on the adoption and integration of ePortfolio into their curriculum

Global and Environmental Education in Professional Education
2021-02-26 | University College Cork, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• To understand how educators approach the issue of global and environmental education in their teaching on professional courses
• To explore how global environmental issues can be introduced more effectively and comprehensively to the curricula of professional training programmes (particularly Social Work, Youth Work & Community Development, and
• Nursing/Midwifery)To establish a network of professional educators with an interest in global and environmental education issues.

Using Video for Enhanced Online and In Class Engagement
2021-02-26 | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology , Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Operate a lightboard studio and basic video recording equipment
• Demonstrate best practice for creating short videos for optimal student engagement
• Create a reusable online learning object using video technology for use in their own teaching practice
*This event was deferred from the 2019/20 National Seminar Series

Visual Thinkery: Simple Techniques to Improve Visuals in TEL
2021-02-26 10:00 - 13:00 | Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Gain an understanding of the significance/impact of visuals in technology enhanced learning
• Learn some simple techniques to improve visuals in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• Become familiar with resources to enhance visuals and improve learner engagement
• Network and connect with others who share the same interest in visual engagement

Anti-racist social work: From "post-race" to decolonial perspectives
2021-03-02 | University College Cork, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Informing a critical approach which encourages practice teachers’ curiosity
• Exploring interactive teaching methods to challenge assumptions
• Incorporating this critical approach and curiosity into Social Work Practice and Teaching
*This event was deferred from the 2019/20 National Seminar Series

Supporting Academic Writing Among Postgraduate Research Students - Building an Effective Feedback Culture in Postgraduate Research Supervision
2021-03-04 | Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Evaluate the role of the thesis supervisor in supporting postgraduate research students to develop academic writing skills
• Reflect on insights from the growing literature on effective feedback in higher education and explore their relevance for supervisory feedback with postgraduate research students
• Appraise and employ a digital system based upon deliberate practice to foster critical analytical writing among postgraduate research students

Online Assessment in Health Professions Education: Opportunities and Challenges
2021-03-04 09:00 - 13:00 | University College Cork, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Critically reflect on key opportunities and challenges of online assessment from the perspectives of teachers and learners
• Select potentially suitable methods of online assessment for a range of situations in Health Professions Education (HPE)
• Consider the potential of novel methods of online assessment in HPE
• Appreciate the implications of online assessment for student learning
• Explore ways to critically evaluate and conduct research in online assessment

Teaching and Learning Design in a Digital World
2021-03-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Examine current principles, modes and methods of online learning and teaching of design and creative media at tertiary level
• Explore adaptive solutions to accommodate the different activities that take place during the creative process through online and blended learning
• Share guidelines, best practice, tips and tools on adapting to blended or online delivery
