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…
Dr Michael Francis Ryan from TUS Quality, Teaching and Learning will give an overview of the new Teaching and Learning Strategy for the Technological University of the Shannon. Focus of the event Strategic institutional discussions about the place of teaching and learning within local policy and decision-making and how the value of teaching and learning…
DCU and UL are delighted to launch the interactive tool designed by educators and learners, for educators and learners, through engagement in a national community of practice. It was evident through conversations with educators and learners that there are diverse perspectives on assessment in terms of its role, value and approach across the sector. This…
Virtual environments and augmented reality offer the construction industry the luxury of experiencing and coordinating proposed projects before committing to the real thing. Furthermore, it provides educators with another tool to engage students in immersive digital building projects within the safety of the classroom. This event presents some of the VR and AR technologies being…
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…
This event will involve developing an awareness around embedding gender equality across teaching and learning for academics in teacher education. The seminar will involve presentations from Lecturers and Students from Mary Immaculate College, Maynooth University and IT Sligo exploring strategies they use and have experienced on embedding gender equality across teaching and learning. The session…
This event will involve developing an awareness around embedding gender equality across teaching and learning for academics in teacher education. In general, teacher educators have not received any formal training and as a result do not have a strong background and expertise in the area of gender equality. The online seminar will be open to…
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…
The disciplines of the emerging Faculty of Arts and Humanities wish to best recognise practice in online learning due to the pandemic, take time to reflect on the experience, and respond in the context of a Colloquium, to inform strategic planning for teaching and learning across the Faculty. For lecturers and students alike, online learning…
Postgraduate nurse/midwife education has been shown to enhance patient outcomes through the provision of care by nurses/midwives who have more knowledge, an increased ability to critically think their way through the care patients receive and possess an ability to decipher the best evidence to inform and impact patient care and resultant outcomes. The Global Pandemic…
