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

Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) and Feedback Literacy
2022-03-11 09:30 - 11:00 UTC
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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Creating Engagement through Interaction
2022-03-30
Learning Objectives

Design a module to foster an engaging learner experience
Seamlessly blend technology into their teaching
Use media tools to enhance student interaction (using collaborative tools such as Jamboard & Padlet where no prior experience is necessary)
Cultivate a positive classroom atmosphere

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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Computer Science Support Centres in Ireland: A Review (2nd Annual Workshop)
2022-04-04
Learning Objectives

Knowledge sharing between support centre coordinators, staff, and other educators
Update on last year from speakers (COVID responses) and how the first semester fully back on campus went in terms of rebuilding centres, and rebuilding a rapport with students
Outlining results from a paper reviewing the state of Computer Science and Programming support in Ireland that was undertaken in Summer 2021
Continuing to encourage the formation of new support centres in Ireland, and the fostering of existing support centres In particular, are supports acquiring the necessary support from their insitutions?

Building UNESCO Sustainability Goals into the Law Curriculum
2022-04-06 12:00 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

To identify practical strategies for embedding the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals into the law curriculum
To share good practice and experience in using the UNESCO SDGs to inform and shape teaching and learning
To explore strategies for enhanced student success and the development of graduate attributes through community outreach initiatives grounded in SDGs
To evaluate and consider the use of a multi-disciplinary approach in responding to the challenge of sustainability at module and programme level
To identify national and international trends relating to the incorporation of SDGs in higher education

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The Future of Clinical Legal Education in Ireland
2022-04-11
Learning Objectives

For those in legal education in Ireland to learn about new strategies for encouraging student success in clinical legal education modules
To assist in the creation of a community of those working in clinical legal education in Ireland, to foster a spirit of collegiality across the institutions and to share resources
To discuss the future of clinical legal education in Ireland given the recent move to online and blended delivery methods
To consider and debate the skills which lawyers will need in the future and how those skills can be identified and taught and assessed in coming years

Crossing Boundaries 2: Teaching for an Ethnically & Religiously Diverse Ireland
2022-04-26 09:45 - 15:30
Learning Objectives

To explore how to bring minority and diverse voices into educational spaces in a safe, learning environment
To 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
Foster open, respectful dialogue, to create a safe space for people of diverse beliefs to engage with each other, etc.
To present the most recent and innovative research and pedagogies underlying a crossing of boundaries in teaching and learning
Continue to build a network of participants who reflect on challenging and complex issues of religious and belief diversity

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OperationBrent: Navigating a Collaborative Online International Learning Project
2022-04-27 14:00 - 16:00
Learning Objectives

Share faculty learnings from the design and delivery of a COIL project
Evaluate the development of global citizenship from the student’s perspective
Illustrate how UDL was embedded into the shared approach

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Amplifying the Upside to Academic Life
2022-04-28 09:30 - 12:45
Learning Objectives

Engage in interdisciplinary peer dialogue and cultivate a professional network that seeks to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship
Clarify their values, interest, strengths and skills as they relate to teaching, learning and scholarship with an emphasis on strengths based learning
Become aware and articulate the position of teaching and learning in the context of their early career professional development
Develop a bespoke plan that identifies key short and long term goals relevant to teaching, learning and scholarship

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From Surviving to Thriving - Negotiating the Post-Zoom Landscape
2022-04-29 10:00 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

To reflect on the language learning experience students have had since March 2020
To consider how best to use the teaching and learning experience gained since March 2020
To explore challenges facing staff and students as we return to onsite teaching, learning and assessment
To discuss best practice in terms of a return to onsite assessment
To share language learning strategies aimed at enhancing student success

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Ensuring Academic Integrity in a Digital Universe
2022-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 | National College of Ireland, Ireland
Learning Objectives

Demonstrate knowledge of the core concepts of online learning and be able to evaluate key concepts, assumptions and theories in blended learning approaches
Describe the challenges of ensuring the integrity of students’ submitted work
Differentiate between the current tools that identify plagiarism

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Event Organsers:
Michael Bradford
Keith Maycock

Difficult Events, Different Narratives: Strategies and Capacity Building for Teaching, Learning and Assessing Contested Issues in Modern Languages, Communications and Journalism
2022-05-04 14:00 - 15:30
Learning Objectives

Identify key issues that impact upon teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education when engaging with contested events and narratives in the fields of Modern Languages Applied Linguistics (MLAL) and Journalism
Explore strategies used within and across disciplines towards the pursuit of best practice in the teaching, learning and assessment of contested events and narratives
Establish the areas where further professional development is required and amendments to current practice could be implemented
Experiment with teaching, learning and assessment innovations and analyse their appropriateness for specific (contested) topics of study

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Enhancing Practice in Further Education: Contemporary Issues & Future Pathways
2022-05-05
Learning Objectives

On completing this workshop seminar FE teachers will have identified their current professional development needs through peer dialogue with the support of FE lecturers
This workshop will give FE teachers from multiple disciplines an opportunity to reflect on and discuss the visionary document, Future FET: Transforming Learning The National Further Education and Training Strategy 2020-2024 (https://www.solas.ie/f/70398/x/64d0718c9e/solas_fet_strategy_web.pdf) and thereby discuss current opportunities and challenges in the FE sector
FE teachers will be given the opportunity to critically reflect on their practice and to contribute to changing conversations in the FE sector

Re-Connect – An Intervention with Students on their Digital Habits
2022-05-05 15:00 - 17:00
Learning Objectives

Identification of the key factors that influence students’ use of the internet both positive and negative
Investigation into the impact of the internet on the student experience of University and the impact on their educational experience and wellbeing
To evaluate the effectiveness of the application of behaviour change principles on students’ internet behaviours and potentially on their educational experience and wellbeing as a result
Evaluation of the merits and limitations of one intervention

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Supporting the Student Journey from Classroom to Workplace
2022-05-06 10:00 - 13:30
Learning Objectives

To develop a greater awareness of teaching and learning methods employed in placement preparation nationally
To explore innovative practices in placement preparation
To discuss good practice in supporting students’ placement preparation journey
To consider challenges of digital engagement in placement preparation

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Teaching and Research in the UK Higher Education Sector during the last 30 years
2022-05-12
Learning Objectives

Gain a professor’s view of people and processes, and how to work in HE as an early or midcareer academic
Explore the set-up and development of an international research group within a teaching-led University and how research can complement teaching
Develop an appreciation for the role that metrics (student satisfaction, research excellence framework (REF), teaching excellence framework, TEF) have played for better and for worse in UK HE
Reflect on a professor’s experience of mentoring international students from Brazil, India, Taiwan, Libya and many other countries and the role that their culture plays in their PhD journey
Learn about the case for ‘passing’ all students or at least broadening classification of marks in examination

Think Outside the Box: Professional Development to Support Inclusive Assessment
2022-05-19 09:30 - 15:30
Learning Objectives

Understand the definition of inclusive assessment
Understand the importance of inclusive assessment in Higher Education
Recognise opportunities to engage in professional development related to inclusive assessment

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Digital Futures in Higher Education Practice and Policy
2022-05-19 10:00 - 11:30
Learning Objectives

Reflect on existing digital education practices
Discuss challenges arising from digital innovation in academic teaching practice
Join the conversation around the evolving shape of current and future educational practices

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Innovative Assessment and Feedback Mechanisms for Placement
2022-05-19 10:00 - 12:00
Learning Objectives

Discuss innovation assessment and feedback mechanism options for placement
Analyse a series of practical interventions conducted across different colleges
Identify a list of potential strategies for assessment and feedback on your own placement
Gain more connections across placement to act as a sounding board for placement queries

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Curricular Approaches to Wellbeing in Higher Education
2022-05-20 09:40 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

To describe the main recommendations of the National Forum USI “Embedding Wellbeing in the Curriculum” report
To describe key components of selected initiatives being showcased during the seminar
To identify opportunities that exist within current curricular offerings to incorporate wellbeing

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Promoting Undergraduate Research at Third Level Post Covid-19
2022-05-20 10:00 - 13:30 | Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Learning Objectives

Identify best practice in relation to the organisation of national and international undergraduate research conferences for Higher Education
Evaluate the advantages, disadvantages and opportunities gained though the online versus F2F delivery of undergraduate research conferences throughout the Covid period
Promote undergraduate student engagement with scientific research programmes across the Higher Education sector, nationally and internationally

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