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

Transform EDU Week Event 3 - Mental Wellbeing and Emotional Skills Development for the Workplace
2021-11-24 12:00 - 13:30 UTC
Mental health and emotional intelligence are integral to graduate employability and career success.
In this webinar, we highlight the importance of social and emotional competencies and showcase Transform EDU’s co-curricular approaches to their development in a series of workshops for final year students. The tailored workshops in Socio-Emotional Skills for Work (SES4Work) aimed at fostering graduate attributes associated with employability and career success in specific disciplines.
We hear from a panel of students, mental health advocates, employers, and Transform EDU researchers.
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Developing UDL Professional Learning Communities
2021-11-25 12:00 - 13:00
This session will address the question, ‘What makes an effective and collaborative community of UDL researchers and practitioners.’ The session will draw on the experiences of the international collaboratory INCLUDE and it will also draw on learning from the Learning by Design research group at the University of Worcester. The session will explore how such a community can maximise its impact by ensuring effective systems and processes are in place. Through reflection, discussion and narrative, the session will reveal ingredients required for the successful establishment and sustainable development for a collegiate and self-sustaining group who aim to transform institutional praxis.
The launch will take place online on Thursday 25th November at 12 noon. It will be an opportunity to learn about the emerging UDL Community of Practice (CoP) and to join UDL at UL.
We warmly welcome new members to our UDL Community of Practice.
Focus of event
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
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Transform EDU Week Event 4: Contract Cheating – Valuing Teaching, Learning and Education
2021-11-25 14:00 - 15:30
Contract cheating represents a challenge to the academic integrity of the educational system. Although one single solution to contract cheating does not exist, the importance of an educative approach is recognised to ensure that students benefit from the learning opportunities offered to them.
This lead presentation for the Transform-EDU Project held during Valuing Ireland’s Teaching & Learning Week will review the characteristics of contract cheating, including how educators can recognise breaches. The presentation will also consider opportunities available for educators to mitigate the risks of students succumbing to contract cheating, including how this topic can be taught to students and how preventative measures can be put into place. Time will be available for questions and discussion.
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Transform EDU Week Event 5: Developing Sustainability Literate Graduates - Adapting the UN Sulitest to Classroom and Aligning the Curriculum to the SDGs
2021-11-26 13:00 - 14:30
Universities have been mandated under SDG 4.7.1 to develop sustainability literature graduates. By sustainability literacy, we refer to the knowledge, skills, and mindsets that help compel an individual to become deeply committed to building a sustainable future (Décamps, 2017).
In this webinar we explore the transformative nature of education for sustainability and underpinning reflective pedagogy. We outline a whole-of-university approach to ensuring that it is embedded across the curricula.
We highlight approaches to measurement and evaluation and showcase the use of the UN’s sustainability literacy test or SULITEST www.sulitest.org with reflective practice in contextualising sustainability literacy across different disciplines.
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Using MS OneNote for Practical and Portfolio Assessment
2022-02-04 10:00 - 11:00
Learning Objectives

Obtain an overview on the use of MS OneNote for practical work and portfolios
Establish sustainable workflows for managing student engagement, submission, and feedback of assessment
Explore student perspectives of using MS OneNote
Share best practice in assessment of practical and portfolio work

Leadership for strategic change and development in Teaching & Learning in European Universities
2022-05-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Online
The Irish Universities Association is pleased to offer an online policy dialogue workshop which will focus of the issue of leadership for strategic change and development in teaching and learning in European universities. This event is organised in the framework of the EUA-led project “Leadership and Organisation for Learning and Teaching at European Universities” (LOTUS) in which IUA is a partner. The policy dialogue workshop will build on recent work undertaken in Ireland by the IUA’s Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning project, and the National Forum for the Enhancement of T&L’s Next Steps project.
The event will also present practices from other European countries and offer an overview of how the EU Recovery Fund is being used to strengthen teaching and learning in a range of member states in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The policy dialogue workshop will be of interest to institutional leaders with a responsibility in learning and teaching, teachers, education developers, national and European policy leaders, as well as representatives of stakeholder organisations active in learning and teaching.
The event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Registrations are open until the start of the event. Participation is free of charge and open to anyone interested in the topic.
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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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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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Future Thinking with KNOWEAU
2023-03-23 09:00 - 16:00 | Online
One day online workshop / Ignite Session available on March 23rd, 2023
KNOWEAUX, Applied Futures who will provide the workshop in an online format, for students and faculty, is a Berlin-based consultancy for transformative future & learning experiences, it aims is to support leaders and organisations in their strategic preparation for profound changes and complex futures.
This free workshop is based on the Future Modelling framework, designed to provide a transparent method for the definition of long-term strategies in any field and for any purpose.The framework combines elements of traditional foresight with systems thinking, trend research, design thinking and experience design and includes a training set of leadership and team capabilities to succeed in times of radical change and high complexity.
For more information or to register please contact justyna.doherty@iadt.ie before 15 March 2023.

National UDL Online Workshops - Workshop Two: Inclusive Curriculum
2023-04-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The HE Universal Design for Learning Centre for Excellence at Atlantic Technological University is proud to present a series of online workshops led by national experts. This series will be available to all higher education staff throughout Ireland. Through this, we hope to bring colleagues together and contribute to the national conversation around accessibility and inclusivity at HEIs.
There will be three workshops altogether, each covering a unique angle and led by national experts in their field. You can register for all workshops individually. Please take a look at the details of workshop two below:
Dr Lisa Padden has worked in University College Dublin (UCD) since 2012 having previously worked at the University of Galway. Lisa’s current role is as Programme Manager for UCD’s University for All initiative, based in UCD Access & Lifelong Learning. Lisa works with academic and professional colleagues across the university to implement University for All – UCD’s whole-institution approach to student inclusion encompassing strategy and policy, teaching, learning and assessment, student supports and services, the built environment and technological infrastructure. Lisa has particular expertise in capacity building in the areas of Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning and works with colleagues across the Higher Education and Further Education and Training sector in Ireland through joint coordination of the Digital Badge for Universal Design in Teaching & Learning, now with almost 3,000 awardees in Ireland. Lisa has been lead editor on four collections of Universal Design for Learning Case Studies and co-wrote the Toolkit for Inclusive Higher Education Institutions.

National UDL Online Workshops - Workshop Three: Inclusive Module Design Review
2023-05-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
The HE Universal Design for Learning Centre for Excellence at Atlantic Technological University is proud to present a series of online workshops led by national experts. This series will be available to all higher education staff throughout Ireland. Through this, we hope to bring colleagues together and contribute to the national conversation around accessibility and inclusivity at HEIs.
There will be three workshops altogether, each covering a unique angle and led by national experts in their field. You can register for all workshops individually. Please take a look at the details workshop three:
A national UDL leader, Lecturer Maureen Haran, PhD(c), SFHEA, manages the UDL Centre of Excellence at Atlantic Technological University. Maureen works with educational development teams to design and implement inclusive education practices at regional and national levels. She is the programme chair and Lecturer on the Post Graduate Certificate/ MA in UDL. Maureen has worked as an educator in both the Irish and American public education systems for over 18 years and has been an education reformer in working with educational development teams in both countries to design and implement inclusive education practices. She is undertaking her PhD in the field of education with the focus of implementing UDL through a cross campus approach. Maureen continues to work on inclusive education initiatives by leading the continuous professional development of academic staff and actively works on nationally funded projects on Universal Design for Learning implementation within the third level sector.
Shelley Brady holds a PhD from Ulster University. Her research explores the impact of inclusive teaching on student success and the student experience, digital tools and student empowerment. She has worked in the area of disability since 2002. Throughout that time, she has been a consultant, associate fellow and lecturer across a wide range of settings and services. Shelley is currently the manager of the Disability Services in ATU Sligo. She is passionate about creating inclusive education for skill development and employment accessible to all.

How to Do Community Based Learning with Migrants & Refugees
2023-05-09 13:15 - 14:00 | Online
Project Erasmus+
Mobilising University-Community Resources through Service Learning for the inclusion of Migrants/Refugees
Join in four Tuesdays of May at lunchtime with facilitators Dr Lorraine Tansey and Dr Maria Gallo and guest contributors in an energising short course funded through Erasmus+ aimed at increasing understanding, respect, empathy, and knowledge within an increasingly diverse Ireland. Interested in incorporating Anti-Racism into your classroom? Concerned about xenophobia? Perhaps you seek to connect your students with migrants, new communities, refugees, international protection applicants in a meaningful collaborative pedagogical opportunity? Join in a safe place, meet colleagues from across Ireland and feel energised as facilitators explore the pedagogical opportunities of service learning/community based learning with new communities.
13:15 – 14:00 Every Tuesday in May
9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th of May.
Click Eventbrite link below to see all the details and register your interest.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-anti-racism-into-curriculum-a-short-course-on-service-learning-tickets-615709843717
