Building cross University CoP connections to enhance teaching & learning

Technological University Dublin Dublin, Ireland

The session aims to exchange strategies and build links between two Universities (University of Adelaide and Technological University Dublin) both currently employing a Community of Practice model to encourage innovation and support change within their professional development strategies. The event will align to National Forum themes. Click here to register

Trauma Informed Education in HEI’s: Passing Craze or Best Practice?

Trauma Informed Education (TIE) has long been encouraged in primary and secondary school settings. How might we apply the precepts of TIE in a third level context? Do 'content warnings' infringe upon academic freedom? What responsibilities reside in the lecture halls when covering possible sensitive/unsettling content? For the Lecturer? For the students? Dr. Catriona O'Toole…

Transform EDU Week Event 2 – Education for Citizenship and Community Engagement

Our key note presentation will focus on the role of Higher Education in developing society though engagement with civic society (third sector). A key function of Technological Universities is to serve the community and public interest by (i) developing strong social and cultural links with the community in the region in which its campuses are…

Telecollaboration as a catalyst for internationalisation at home

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LyIT) , Ireland

This online event seeks to build upon previous National Forum seminars/webinars in 2019 and 2021, by further exploring the potential offered by new technologies to revitalise language teaching and broaden the skill-set of Irish learners. It will provide an opportunity for higher and second level educators to form synergies and collaborative spaces to share knowledge…

It Takes a Village to Innovate: The Education/ Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace offers a suite of postgraduate certificate courses with a future of work focus. To facilitate real world educational value, our courses engage with a variety of industry and  education stakeholders, offering students the opportunity to parse their academic learning with the chance to apply it in business settings. The student’s first…

Learning Communities – how to initiate and support a culture of shared practice

In the last three years we have established and developed over 30 learning communities whereby over 300 staff members across 40 departments have either initiated or joined a LC. These range from discipline specific to programme specific groups as well as LCs that are focused on cross departmental thematic areas such as active learning or…

Transform EDU Week Event 3 – Mental Wellbeing and Emotional Skills Development for the Workplace

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…

Innovations in Higher Education: A Learning and Teaching Strategy for a New University

Technological University of the Shannon Tipperary, Ireland

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…

Launch: Interactive Output from Reimagining Assessment Community of Practice

University of Limerick , Ireland

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…

Construction Education – Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR)

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LyIT) , Ireland

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…