The National Webinar Series, organised by the National Forum throughout 2021, gets underway on Friday 26 March 2021 with a webinar focused on ‘Using OER and OEP for Teaching and Learning’. The potential benefits of using open educational resources and practices (OER and OEP) in higher education include improving access, furthering equity and enhancing teaching,…
This National Forum webinar, open to the entire higher education community, will focus on the key features of an agile and innovative curriculum. The concept of agile curricula has come to prominence in recent years, not least through the HEA’s recent Human Capital Initiative Pillar 3, which has seen a Government investment of €197 million over…
This National Forum webinar, open to the higher education community, will focus on assessment and specifically, alternatives to assessment of learning through final (terminal) examinations. It takes place from 12.30-13.30 on Friday 28 May. For some time, research analysing assessment in higher education has raised questions about the effectiveness and reliability of traditional final exam-based…
Taking place on Thursday 10 June 2021, this webinar will share developments and invite feedback on the project to develop a new National Forum ‘Guide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital and Open Teaching & Learning’. Institutional policy-making can, and should, engage individuals across the organisation; policy-making is not the remit of senior managers only.…
The National Forum is delighted to support Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD2020/21), the 10th iteration of a biennial international conference which attracts engineering educators and academics from all over the world with an interest in embedding sustainability in the curriculum. University College Cork will host the conference, the first time in Ireland, on 13-16 June 2021, focused…
This National Forum webinar, open to the entire higher education community, will focus on the key features of an agile and innovative curriculum and continue the conversation initiated at our first webinar on this theme in April. In this webinar, we present summary analysis of the contributions of speakers and participants at the first event…
The National Forum is delighted to support the 3rd symposium of Pedagogy for Higher Education Large Classes (PHELC), due to take place on 25 June 2021. This event, hosted by Dublin City University, aims to provide a platform for those teaching large classes in higher education contexts to share practice, experience and expertise. If governmental…
The National Forum is delighted to support the upcoming Life Long Learning in Pharmacy International Conference 2021. This will be a virtual conference, taking place from Sunday 27th to Wednesday 30th June 2021, hosted from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin. The LLLP conferences bring together international and national colleagues to share their interest…
The National Forum, in partnership with Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), will host an online webinar entitled ‘Competencies, Expectations and Learning Contracts in Work-Based Assessment: How are they related?’ on Thursday, 23 September 2021, 12.00-13.30. Assessment of work-integrated learning can be challenging in relation to the: Expectation of what is to be assessed in advance…
The National Forum is delighted to support the Science Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) 2021 Conference, to be hosted online on 01 October by Athlone Institute of Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology. This is the fourth in a series of SURE Conferences. Students from throughout Ireland who are completing their final…
