Online Event- Engaging with the Professional Development Framework: User Perspectives

This is an interactive online event that will introduce participants to different approaches to implementing professional development frameworks at institutional level. Peer-connections will be encouraged through interactive activities and facilitated dialogue. Speakers will discuss their experiences of implementing institutional professional development structures, the challenges and enablers that arose during that process and will provide tangible…

Building Trust in Online T&L – Ethical Practice for Students and Staff

Hibernia College

Learning Objectives • Discuss issues relating to quality assurance, ethics and academic integrity in the online learning environment • Identify barriers and enablers to trust for both staff and students in the online learning environment • Identify and employ resources to promote ethical practice for students and staff • Explore opportunities related to current practice…

Using mobile technologies to enhance collaborative teaching and learning

Learning Objectives • Demonstrate understanding of the theory and practice related to the use of mobile technology in blended higher education • Demonstrate awareness of the potential benefits and challenges of implementing mobile technology learning tools in different educational contexts • Evaluate the frameworks, processes and implementations presented • Apply these insights to one’s own…

Part 1 – Reframing Academic Integrity Perspectives

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…

Part 2 – Responding to Unintentional Academic Impropriety: Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches

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…

Challenges for Learning Design & Teaching Practice Beyond the Pandemic (w/t)

Learning Objectives Gain a solid understanding of approaches to large-scale pedagogic change in higher education Reflect on the principles underpinning active blended learning (ABL) and their application within HE institutions Consider lessons learned from the transition to emergency remote teaching (ERT) and its impact on subsequent teaching practices Identify new staff development needs as a…

Using a Digital Collaboration Platform to Enhance Social T&L Practices

Learning Objectives Evaluate the benefits of digital collaboration approaches in higher education Demonstrate awareness of the challenges involved in embedding a collaborative platform Synthesise an understanding of the potential of digital collaboration for teacher educators Apply these insights to one’s own professional education context Click here to register

Part 3 – The Challenge of Academic Naivety/Impoverishment, National and International

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…

Part 4 – Student Representative Panel

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…

Using Digital Technologies to Promote Inclusive Learning and Teaching Practices

Online

Learning Objectives Reflect on and share current use of digital technologies to enhance teaching, learning and assessment in initial teacher education in the context of a blended learning environment Consider and apply the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote and implement inclusive teaching and learning approaches Explore how a range of digital…