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

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 UTC | 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

Curation and Co-construction of digital stories in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Higher Education
2021-03-05 | National College of Ireland, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• To enhance understanding of the use of digital technologies in teaching learning particularly in the context of teaching ECEC professional practice
• To share innovation in learning, teaching and assessment with a focus on using digital stories in the context of ECEC practice

Moving online: Students’ and Faculties’ Experiences and Challenges During COVID-19
2021-03-05 | University College Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand both domestic and international students’ virtual learning experience during Covid-19 pandemic
• Reflect on strategies on virtual teaching, in particular, content, delivery and communication based on challenges encountered by students while learning virtually during the pandemic
• Understand the benefits and challenges faculty encountered when moving their teaching online
• Reflect on the support measures that facilities online teaching

The Role of Computer Science Support Centres
2021-03-08 10:00 - 13:00 | Maynooth University, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Knowledge sharing between support centre coordinators and other educators
• Discussion of best practices in support centres, so that each individual centre can gain new ideas to further their success
• Encouragement for the creation of additional support centres in institutions who do not currently have one, and to encourage redevelopment of struggling centres
• The creation of an ongoing discussion group for collaboration between institutions on the role of support centres in Ireland. As part of this, an annual event will be created for interested parties
• To gain an international perspective on what is happening outside Ireland in the realm of programming support

Using mobile technologies to enhance collaborative teaching and learning
2021-03-09
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 professional education context

MoodleMunch Buffet: Developing Digital Competences
2021-03-09 | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand the broad structure of the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators
• Identify specific competences in different areas of the framework that you wish to develop
• Appraise the suitability of Moodle approaches and plugins that help develop specific competences
• Connect with fellow Moodle users and help form a community spirit

Remote Mini Ed-Hackathon
2021-03-09 10:00 - 13:30 | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Identify digital technologies that can enhance learning and the student experience
• Implement a challenge-based approach such as an educational hackathon in their module delivery
• Critically consider the factors that promote remote engagement and learning

Supporting Students with Neurological Differences
2021-03-10 | Griffith College, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Support diverse cohorts of students better using practical strategies
• Discuss learning challenges associated with neurological differences such as ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia
• Explore strategies based on neurodiversity
• Plan to use strategies to encourage student success for all students
*This event was deferred from the 2019/20 National Seminar Series

Students as Partners in Assessment
2021-03-11 | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Describe and understand the concept of student partnership
• Identify approaches and strategies to foster student partnership when it comes to assessment
• Analyse student perspectives and issues in the context of student partnership
• Plan and implement practical steps to begin fostering student partnership in assessment

Creating Learning Analytics to Understand and Describe Student Activity
2021-03-12 | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology , Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Explore what student engagement information is available within the VLE (Moodle) and how it may be accessed
• Become aware of the requirements for effective data collection to allow real time dashboarding of student data
• Transform student engagement data into descriptive statistics to explore student behaviour for optimisation of course design
• Provide feedback mechanisms to students on their learning interactions and progress that empowers students to improve their likelihood of success
• Use data analytics tools which would enable and inform appropriate intervention strategies (at risk students)
*This event was deferred from the 2019/20 National Seminar Series

Going all Online - Teaching Practice, Learning Design and Assessment
2021-03-18 | University College Cork, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Discussion of challenges and opportunities of online teaching and learning
• Design of feedback and assessment tools in a virtual environment
• Demonstration of best practice in mathematics/machine learning
• Professional development of teaching staff

Teaching and Learning Open Research in Higher Education
2021-03-23 13:00 - 14:30 | University College Cork, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand and be able to describe what open research is
• Understand and be able to describe the role and importance of open research in higher education
• Recognise approaches to incorporating open research into their teaching and research supervision
• Understand how to incorporate approaches to teaching open research in their own practice

Interactive Online Oral Assessments
2021-03-24 | Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Understand what is, and what is not, an interactive online oral assessment
• Explore examples of interactive online oral assessments
• Design a scaffolded assessment strategy to include interactive online oral component
• Discuss how this approach can promote academic integrity and industry-ready graduates
• Reflect on how interactive orals can replace traditional exams

WorldSkills Competitions - Enhancing Success in the Curriculum
2021-03-24
Learning Objectives
• Embedding competition in the curriculum to prepare students for the world of work
• Creating the workplace in an educational setting for early success
• Steering students towards personal achievement in careers from Apprenticeship to PhD

Crossing Boundaries: Religions and Beliefs in Changing Times
2021-03-31 | Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
Learning Objectives
• Present international research on religion, education and ethnicity, particularly in the light of the Black Lives Matter movement
• Explore religion and queerness in education and introduce new ways of interpreting religion that challenge hetero-/cisnormative conception of religious identity
• Address the deficit in understanding about non-religious groups in Ireland (10% of the population in 2016)
• Inform professional practice about the diversity of religious beliefs in Ireland and support educators to engage in reflective practice as they address the needs of belief diverse learners
• Present the most recent and innovative research and pedagogies underlying a crossing of boundaries in teaching and learning about religion in Ireland
