This interactive session will see James Northridge introduce you to the exciting new Inclusive UCC project. Our guest speaker Hector Minto, Microsoft Accessibility Evangelist, will guide you through some of the accessibility features that make things possible for all and show you how digital accessibility is now everybody's business. At Microsoft, their mission is to…
This event sees the launch of UCC's SDG Toolkit and includes inputs from UCC President, Professor John O'Halloran, UCC staff and students as they share their reflections on the need for and experience of integrating the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the curriculum. The SDG toolkit is a web-based resource developed to assist…
Chaired by National Forum board member, Karena Maguire (Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Communications, QQI, who will introduce the third stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU), and our first Poster showcase. Gasta speakers for the third scholarship hour are: Scholarship Hour 3 Chaired by Karena Maguire Gasta Marathon…
Essay mills are on the increase and the temptation to engage with these when students are under pressure is real. Megan O'Connor, USI Vice President for Education will be presenting the dark side of these businesses from real student experience. Rachel Sarsfield Ryan (IADT SU Vice President for Education) and Rebecca Roper (Head of Teaching…
Launch of education booklet following collaboration between UCC and Cork Prison Education Unit. Focus of event: Launch booklet Registration https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-cork-prison-education-unit-tickets-200953486287?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
This seminar will draw on the experiences of academic and teaching-support staff to identify what has been learnt from the period of emergency online teaching and learning and how Maynooth as an institution can capitalise on this. Utilising a World Café event, we will problematise questions of what worked well and what didn’t, by reflecting…
This innovative and collaborative National Forum one day seminar proposes a dialogical framework involving educational, cultural and religious experts as they explore the role of religious artefacts in creative teaching and learning environments. For this event Mary Immaculate College would partner with the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin City Interfaith Forum and the MidWest Interfaith Network…
The European Universities initiative offers joint curricula across multiple university campuses using an innovative, challenge based, and student-centered approach. Teaching and learning practices for these universities of the future need to be aligned with a technology enhanced, transdisciplinary approach across multiple European locations. A major challenge is how to deliver inter-institutional modules across locations at…
This special VITAL event will celebrate the launch of the DigitalEd Case Study Collection. The DigitalEd Case Study publication will showcase exemplars of online and blended course design outputs produced in GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT including; reflections from the digital champion experience; Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the digital world; the DigitalEd transformation journey and…
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Mark Kelly (Head of Centre for Sustainability), Declan Feeney (IT Sligo) and Fiona Britton (Sustainability Officer, IT Sligo) who will moderate a series of breakout sessions for staff and students to explore the opportunities inherent within the Climate Action University concept. The workshops on the 11th and 16th are…
