Lights, Camera, Action: Use of Video for Teaching and Assessment
2022-03-02 10:00 - 15:00 UTC
Learning Objectives

Acquire skills in accessing discipline-specific videos from banks currently available
Acquire tips on opportunities and pitfalls in custom-made videos
Practice using the H5P tool to use videos for assessment
Acquire skills to use videos for the flipped classroom (pre-class or pre-lab)
Learn how to use videos for peer assessment and associated GDPR guidance

Maximising the Impact of Learning Conversations in Experiential Education
2022-03-04 09:30 - 11:00
Learning Objectives

Implement strategies to establish a supportive learning environment
Identify similarities across types of learning conversations, including feedback, coaching, and debriefing
Distinguish between feedback, coaching, and debriefing
Demonstrate the common elements of an effective learning conversation, including structure and specific strategies of inquiry that promote reflection and goal setting

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Enhancing Effectiveness of Teaching Teams Through Team Inclusiveness
2022-03-04 11:30 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

Identify how collective reflection promotes learning and performance
Explain the concrete beliefs and behaviours that comprise team reflection and team inclusiveness
Identify the potential benefits of team inclusiveness for creativity, innovation, and team effectiveness
Implement team reflection and team inclusiveness into educational practice

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Using Design-Based Research to Promote Cross-Sector Communication Training
2022-03-04 14:00 - 15:30
Learning Objectives

Apply a theory informed communication framework to their practice

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Intensive Writing Camps as a Key Support for Doctoral Student Success
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00
Learning Objectives

Create and advocate for writing supports for doctoral students in your institution
Identify the management and implementation issues involved in introducing writing programmes to support doctoral students
Provide advice on writing strategies to doctoral students
Explain the links between writing support, student mental resilience and timely completion

Building Learning Communities Online
2022-03-10
Learning Objectives

Identify strategies for building student learning communities in online spaces
Reflect on digital tools which could enable virtual community-building in their own practice
Discuss emerging challenges when facilitating student engagement, collaboration and communication in online spaces
Actively participate in online conversations and communities around the evolving nature and characteristics of student learning communities in post-pandemic higher education

A Practice Exchange of Innovations in EBP Education
2022-03-10 10:30 - 13:30
Learning Objectives

Recognise the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP) within healthcare professional programmes and the opportunities for it to function as a conduit for developing higher-order skills and 21st century graduate attributes
Recognise challenges associated with EBP teaching and the current situation in Ireland
Critically evaluate the EVIBEC cross-discipline, vertically-integrated framework and its associated resources for the teaching, learning and assessment of EBP across entry-level health professional programmes
To build educator capacity to deliver quality teaching and learning in EBP
Develop the community of practice exploring EBP teaching, learning and assessment

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Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) and Feedback Literacy
2022-03-11 09:30 - 11:00
Learning Objectives

Describe Peer-Assisted learning (PAL) as a pedagogical strategy supported by theory
Apply effective PAL techniques through structured exercises
Discuss the role of faculty to support effective PAL
Design opportunities for PAL in an undergraduate curriculum

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Promoting a Team Approach to Patient Safety
2022-03-11 11:30 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

Participants will demonstrate an increased situational awareness of safety concerns as a member of the healthcare team in the post-operative ward setting
Participants will recognise safety as a concern for all health care professionals and importance of sharing safety concerns across disciplines
Participants will demonstrate an understanding of the impact that non-technical skills have on patient care, safety and satisfaction

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Preparing Simulated Participants for Feedback Practices in Communication Skills
2022-03-11 14:00 - 15:30
Learning Objectives

Identify the role of simulated participants as educators through feedback
Define the key elements of training for simulated participants in feedback practices to enhance course design
Discuss simulated participant feedback practices to support reflective practice in teaching and learning and formative assessment

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Developing Anti-racist Practice in Professional Education
2022-03-15 10:00 - 12:00
Learning Objectives

Enhance awareness of students’ experiences of racism in placement settings
Provide an overview of the anti-racism training resource developed for Community Development and Youth Work students and learnings from the process
Discuss the experiences of staff supporting anti-racist practice in professional education and share best practice examples

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Lego Serious Play: Exploring the Application of Playful Learning in HE
2022-03-16 12:00 - 16:00 | TU Dublin, Blanchardstown Campus, Ireland
Learning Objectives

Explore how Lego Serious Play can support playful learning, engagement, team communication and collaboration in Higher Education contexts
Evaluate opportunities for the practical implementation of Lego Serious Play within a classroom environment
Assess how applicable Lego Serious Play could be within various teaching and learning contexts
Explore teaching and learning practices through the lens of Lego Serious Play
Identify opportunities for the application of Lego Serious Play in co-curricular, extra-curricular and interdisciplinary contexts

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Building a Community of Inquiry Online: Deepening Student Experiential Learning
2022-03-22 09:30 - 12:00
Learning Objectives

Understand the principles of the educational community of inquiry (ECoI) framework
Describe the benefits and challenges of using ECoI framework in undergraduate education
Plan for the introduction of ECoI to curriculum design
Explore the potential for alignment of a community of inquiry approach with experiential learning placements

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Action in Architecture - Teaching for Climate Change, Teaching for the Future
2022-03-23
Learning Objectives

Enabling those attending to understand the context in which their teaching practice and methods can develop to tackle the issue of climate change with reference to the perspectives of the case studies shown and through round table discussions
Enabling those attending to learn from each other, share experiences and draw strength from a combined effort to address the issue of climate change in the teaching and learning of architecture, and to build a network of teachers interested in this topic
Enabling those attending to understand the national picture for teaching and learning in this specific area of education, to understand how best to act and develop effective education programs and to identify methods and practices in other disciplines that might be relevant to architecture design teaching
Enabling those attending to begin a process of reflective teaching practice, discussion and documentation of outputs so that a local and collective process of teaching enhancement and practice can occur on an ongoing basis
Discussing and developing methods of enhancing student learning, experience, feedback, and wider dissemination as part of student learning, and as work in this area of teaching progresses in the coming years

Part 4 - Student Representative Panel
2022-03-24
Learning Objectives

Empower delegates to understand the difference between unintentional and intentional academic impropriety and some of the newer and more complex challenges to academic integrity in the 21st century such as essay mills and fake news
Provide delegates with an overview of institutional initiatives and pedagogical approaches to preventing unintentional academic impropriety
Provide delegates with an understanding of how staff across academic institutions can work in partnership with students to prevent unintentional academic impropriety
Explore how educating students about unintentional academic impropriety can inform student transition, teaching and learning, student success and information literacy initiatives
Explore how universal design initiatives can promote student engagement with academic integrity policies

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The Fusion of Theory and Practice: Reflection on the Early Years & Childhood Studies Professional Practice Placement as a Community of Practice Experience - Part 3
2022-03-24 15:30 - 17:00
Learning Objectives

To develop a community of practice exploring the triquetra relationship among student, placement supervisor and placement mentor with a focus on student well-being and student success
To discuss the fusion of theory and practice, of the interdisciplinary degree, identifying the key components that assure student well-being and student success during professional practice placement
To reflect on the key components for high quality practice that contribute to and/or inhibit the success of the student, placement supervisor and placement mentor relationship
To create a shared vision and develop an evidence–based professional practice placement model to ensure an enriched, engaged and positive experience of the professional practice placement that leads to student success
To evaluate and plan the next steps for dissemination of best practice, through an Action for Transformation Plan, facilitating a collaborative and co-created approach to ensure student success in the professional practice placement

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Using Informed Learning to Embed Information Literacy Practices in Curricula
2022-03-29 10:00 - 14:30
Learning Objectives

Engage with the concept of ‘Informed Learning’ and how it can enhance Information Literacy teaching
Explore the purpose of a curricular level approach to Information Literacy teaching
Establish the importance of collaborations with disciplinary teaching staff for an ‘Informed Learning’ approach and explore possible practical applications within subject areas
Consider how to include ‘Informed Learning’ in Information Literacy teaching at a curricular level

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Team Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning
2022-03-31 10:00 - 12:00
Learning Objectives

Explain the essential elements that make up a team-based learning unit
Describe the benefits and challenges of using TBL
Plan for the introduction of team-based learning to a curriculum

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