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

Unlocking the student journey through higher education
2021-11-26 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LyIT), Ireland
The evolution of higher education from a grade centred to a learning experience driven approach is evident in the increasing number of journal article publications on topics such as student engagement and learning analytics. Today, there is a more inclusive understanding of the higher education journey that extends beyond grades, and retention and progression rates to consider diverse priorities and perspectives, and experiences outside of the classroom.
In this tailored hybrid event for staff and students, four student experience experts will present findings in domains that include wellbeing, engagement, partnership, and learning. The programme will also feature a presentation from Unlock (unlocking student engagement through learning analytics) and an opportunity to discuss findings with speakers. For in-person attendees, a break will be included to encourage networking and to foster collaboration and partnership across the four domains.
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Enhanced patient outcomes: Celebrating Postgraduate Nurse/Midwife Education
2021-11-26 10:00 - 13:00
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 has illuminated the importance of highly skilled front line nurses/midwives educated at Postgraduate level and the importance of HEIs being able to provide relevant and accessible courses of study.
This three-hour online event facilitated via MS Teams brings together academic/clinical educators from across the RCSI hospital group and associated clinical partners. We are inviting five-minute poster presentations from individual educators highlighting innovations and enhancements in nurse/midwife education. This event includes student engagement/reflections and will facilitate reflection on what we have learned, what good teaching and learning looks like and how it can be supported into the future

Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work

Recognise, Reflect, Respond: a multi-campus Arts & Humanities colloquium
2021-11-26 | Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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 and teaching has been a new endeavour. Previous data show that both learners and lecturers want more online approaches to learning and teaching, but post-pandemic data highlight diminished student enjoyment and engagement in the online pandemic learning experience.
This colloquium seeks to bring teaching, teaching support staff, and learners together to share experiences within the context of Arts and Humanities. We will hear about the lived experience of online pandemic learning from student and lecturer perspectives. This event supports a response to further the future teaching and learning vision and mission of the emerging faculty.
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 can be strengthened
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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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Integrating the gender dimension into teaching & learning
2021-11-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
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 other HEI’s in ITE.
The seminar will involve presentations from international experts in the field, delivering sessions on:
Developing an awareness around embedding gender equality across teaching and learning in both formal and informal education settings;
Supporting teachers across the continuum and across levels in education in developing curricula that incorporates gender awareness, equality and diversity.
The interactive session will also accommodate reflection and knowledge sharing activities whereby educators share ideas and experiences and good practices through open discussion and dialogue.
Focus of the event
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work

Integrating the Gender Dimension into Teaching & Learning
2021-11-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
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 hopes to develop a network of practitioners that would like to support each other in developing curricula that incorporates gender awareness, equality and diversity.
The interactive session will involve reflections and knowledge sharing activities whereby educators share ideas and experiences and good practices through open discussion and dialogue.
This event has been funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning for the Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VIT&L) initiative running from Monday 8th – 12th and through the month of November.
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work

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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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Construction Education - Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR)
2021-11-25 10:30 - 12:00 | 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 explored in the delivery of courses in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at LYIT.
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Launch: Interactive Output from Reimagining Assessment Community of Practice
2021-11-25 10:00 - 11:30 | 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 resource aims to bridge the perceived gap through sharing examples and resources on the process and product of assessment. It focusses on the three critical elements of assessment identified in discussions: workload, groups, and feedback.
Prof Susan Deeley will deliver a keynote address on the balancing act that is assessment from the perspective of the students and the educators. Following this, there will be an overview of the resource with an opportunity for participants to engage with, and comment on it. The event will conclude with a plenary Q&A
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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Innovations in Higher Education: A Learning and Teaching Strategy for a New University
2021-11-25 | 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 can be strengthened
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-learning-and-teaching-strategy-for-a-new-university-tickets-195200037567

Transform EDU Week Event 3 - Mental Wellbeing and Emotional Skills Development for the Workplace
2021-11-24 12:00 - 13:30
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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Learning Communities - how to initiate and support a culture of shared practice
2021-11-24 11:00 - 12:00
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 work placement.
During this event, we will outline how we set about fostering a culture whereby LCs can thrive, and what we have learnt about the challenges and supports needed to develop and support LCs. We will also feature a number of staff members who are active LC members who will showcase how their LCs function and what projects / outputs they have undertaken as a result. We will finish with an interactive Q&A session allowing online participants to learn more from our LC ambassadors.
Focus of 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 can be strengthened
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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It Takes a Village to Innovate: The Education/ Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
2021-11-24 10:00 - 12:00
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 journey involves a complex problem-solving innovation project with an industry partner, which will be the focus of this event.
This online event will comprise of a short CPS workshop to demonstrate transversal skill development with real-world application, followed by a panel discussion. It will bring together a selection of students and stakeholders to describe the roles and experiences they have had during this project work, and to demonstrate the value that an experiential learning journey can create in terms of bridging the education-industry gap, as well as facilitating a meaningful educational experience for adult learners.
Focus of the event

Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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Telecollaboration as a catalyst for internationalisation at home
2021-11-24 10:00 - 12:00 | 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 and learn from empirical research. The keynote speaker Robert O’Dowd will shed light on this growing field of investigation and emphasise the need to prioritise telecollaboration at policy level. Representatives from emerging Technological University in Letterkenny, Sligo and Galway will explore ways of embedding telecollaboration into programmes and create learning opportunities for ‘internationalisation at home’. Representatives from the Post-primary Languages Ireland will present the challenges faced by language teachers at second level. Finally, best practice models of telecollaboration will be shared by third level practitioners and E-twinning ambassadors at second level.
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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Transform EDU Week Event 2 - Education for Citizenship and Community Engagement
2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:30
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 located, and (ii) fostering effective relationships with organisations involved in regional development – contributing to economic, cultural, social and scientific development of the State. This webinar will focus on how universities can contribute to inclusive, sustainable and empowered communities by educating young people to participate actively in civil society.
We will also provide an overview of a new Active Citizenship module that aims to educate students in key concepts related to citizenship; encourage students to get actively involved in their communities to achieve personal development; and to further civic goals. The module is influenced by thought-leaders, including Raghuram Rajan, author of the Third Pillar, The Revival of Community in a Polarised World, Paul Collier John Kay, authors of Greed is Dead: Politics after Individualism
The Transform EDU team will also provide an overview of findings from case-study research on civic engagement and community development in South Dublin.
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Trauma Informed Education in HEI's: Passing Craze or Best Practice?
2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:00
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 (Maynooth University) shares her work around this interesting topic.
Registration
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Building cross University CoP connections to enhance teaching & learning
2021-11-23 07:30 - 08:30 | 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.
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Transform EDU Week Event 1 - Developing a Transformative Education Framework for Higher Education
2021-11-22 13:00 - 14:30
Transform-EDU aims to place transformative learning centre-stage in higher education. The project has focused on innovative approaches to learning where elements of structured programmes, co and extra-curricular events are purposefully integrated to create the rich learning environments that are required to foster transformative learning.
We present a framework that recognises that, whilst learning outcomes are mostly achievable in structured discipline-specific academic curricula, 21st Century Graduate profiles demanded by employers are dynamic, requiring agile learning environments to produce graduates who meet skills demanded by enterprise.
We highlight TU Dublin’s Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) as a means of capturing and authenticating transformative learning that takes place, under the following competencies: civil knowledge and skills, global culture competence, health and wellbeing development, leadership, teamwork, research and innovation competence building. We highlight the student and staff voice during our event. We outline examples of co-curricular events that support exposure, integration and transformation.
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Nurturing Wellness within Teaching and Learning
2021-11-19 14:00 - 15:30 | Munster Technological University
Recent times have brought our awareness of wellbeing into sharp focus. We acknowledge its importance, but what is it exactlyand how can we practically support it within teaching and learning?
Within MTU Crawford we have developed a number of initiatives that we can showcase – The Creativity Tonic website, the 5 Ways to Wellbeing Activities resource and a mobile studio bike project. In January we are hosting a Fulbright Scholar (RhondaSchaller) who will work with lecturing staff to develop a toolkit of techniques to support wellness and build resilience, embedding positive pedagogy and mindfulness in our teaching practice.
An online talk and Q&A, delivered by Rhonda Schaller, will focus on wellbeing and positive pedagogy. The event will showcase existing MTU Crawford initiatives and raise awareness nationally around how wellbeing can be nurtured within teaching and learning. It will also provide space to consider the US and Irish perspectives in this context.
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Considering how the relational, structural, practical or policy aspects of teaching and learning can be valued, supported andrecognised

Registration
https://telcit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcu2trDkqGdw2NRCNTQvvoyPWCqL9LWfQ

Embedding Global Citizenship Education into TU Dublin Programmes: Starting a Conversation
2021-11-19 13:30 - 14:30 | Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Building on the work of TU Dublin’s community of practice www.sdglitercy.ie , this one-hour workshop, which will facilitate both in-person and online participation, will provide an opportunity to kick-start conversations among students, staff and between students and staff in TU Dublin. The workshop will focus on exploring how the community of students and staff in TU Dublin can work together to empower each other to make informed decisions and take individual and collective action to meet the societal and global challenges we all face. In particular: Exploring key enablers and barriers to facilitating the development of global citizens as part of TU Dublin programmes; Examining how sustainability can be embedded into the curriculum of all degree programmes; Exploring the role of assessment in developing key skills needed. In addition, students and staff will be invited to submit a poster related to the UNESCO sustainability goals/ their experience of how assessment has helped or could help to achieve these goals as part of a curriculum.
The event will start with a short lunch and networking opportunity for those attending in person. The workshop will formally start at 13.30 and will be hosted as both an in-person and online event.
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Reflecting on How We can Collectively Enhance T&L in Business Disciplines in TU Dublin
2021-11-19 13:00 - 15:00
Enhancing student engagement and success is at the core of planning for a new blended learning environment, and Technological University Dublin is aiming for all stakeholders have a voice in the technology and techniques being implemented including staff, students and professional services. As part of this collaborative process, you are invited to celebrate and recognize our student’s success in progressing during the pandemic through a series of strategic conversations to share experience and shape our practice as we step beyond our emergency move to Responsive Blended Learning to a ‘new normal’. These conversations will take place over two online events, with the context being how teaching and learning is valued in the Faculty of Business, TU Dublin.
Our second event is ‘Reflecting on How We can Collectively Enhance T&L in Business Disciplines in TU Dublin’ and takes place 19th November,1.00pm – 3.00pm
Reflective Online Workshop
To bring our collective knowledge-sharing forward, staff from across the Faculty will work together through online breakout rooms to reflect on the experiences presented by the students and identify what, as a new Faculty, we can take from this experience into our strategic Teaching, Learning & Assessment policy.
The output of these workshops will allow us to identify the practical actions that really bring learning and teaching to life in Business disciplines for the future, while allowing staff across the Faculty to network across the Campuses.
Plenary Session
The plenary session to conclude this first series of conversations will allow students from across the faculty business disciplines to share their own experience and learnings both during and post pandemic, and set out their vision for what success in this space should look like.
Focus of the event

Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers

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Creating visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive content for a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
2021-11-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LyIT), Ireland
The Flexible Online Learning team at LYIT will deliver a workshop that takes users through:

A showcase of examples that have been created and implemented at LYIT.
How to create your own visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive content.

Through the course of this workshop the team will explore several methods for creating and embedding this content in a Virtual Learning Environment. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to apply some of the techniques and create your own visually engaging, dynamic, and interactive content.

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A strategic collaboration on digitally enhanced learning in higher education
2021-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Hibernia College
Hibernia College invite individuals who teach and learn within higher education in Ireland, to participate in a collaborative discussion focused on shared experiences of digitally enhanced learning. This professional dialogue between those who deliver, and experience professional education will be framed by Hibernia College’s Teaching, Learning and Assessment Strategy that is developed in the context of blended learning.
The aim of this event is to promote collaboration between professional higher education institutions and their students, while systematically gathering views and experiences. Information obtained will be compiled into a report, highlighting the key findings, which will be published as a post event resource.
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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Teaching & Learning Approaches to EDI and Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Gender Equality
2021-11-18 15:00 - 16:00
Dr Gemma Irvine, Vice-President for Equality and Diversity at Maynooth University will share her experiences and insights on practices to date in integrating gender, EDI and Sustainable Development Goal 5 – Gender Equality in the curriculum in HE sector. The session will be followed by audience Q&A. Please register for the online session in advance and join instructions will be emailed closer to the day. This session has been developed in collaboration between Mary Immaculate College, Maynooth University and IT Sligo. This event has been funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning for the Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VIT&L) initiative running from Monday 8th – 12th and through the month of November.
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Recognising past present & future challenges & opportunities of blended Teaching & Learning
2021-11-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
This in-person and online hybrid session will provide an opportunity for us all to reflect on the challenges and opportunities we have/continue to face during a global pandemic in relation to Teaching & Learning.
’We are in the midst of a technological era that is entirely disruptive. The pace at which technology, society and world economies are evolving has never been faster. We know that the future for our students, graduates and staff will be very different to that of today. So too, higher education must evolve and advance, to support our people and communities, to be truly relevant, and to deliver real impact”
– David Fitzpatrick, TU (Technological University) Dublin President
Guest Speakers:
We will explore the future of blended/hybrid learning with our key speaker Dr. Tony Bates with a pre-recorded presentation.
We will be welcomed via live stream with Donald Clark, EdTech entrepreneur and evangelist for the use of technology in learning. Donald will discuss challenges (political, economic, pedagogic and cultural) faced by Higher Education and the need for technology and change. He will also explore innovations in technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how we can exploit these technologies to transform our T&L practices.
Panel Discussion:
A panel of teaching and learning experts will reflect on our speaker’s presentations and discuss the following areas:
We will discuss the impact the global pandemic has had on teaching and learning for all our students and staff within Technological University Dublin.
We will explore the challenges both academics and students face/have faced and how we have worked together to address these issues with people, processes, and technologies.
During this section of the session, we will be using interactive polling and audience participation via Vevox Technology.
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Creating Connections On and Off Line: Education as a Shared Endeavour
2021-11-18 14:00 - 15:00 | RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
The shift to remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of the social dimension of education and trained a focus on the notion of presence at both social and pedagogical levels (Garrison, Anderson and Archer, 2001). For learners, making their presence felt in an online environment may be perceived in terms of risk and teachers may struggle to generate satisfactory levels of engagement. In this seminar, David White probes the notion of presence and students’ motivation to engage in both the on and off line environments. He highlights the importance of teachers and learners developing an understanding of education as a shared endeavour and asks us to consider what such a conception might mean in practice in both our own educational contexts and collectively in the higher education sector.
Focus of the event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Considering how the relational, structural, practical or policy aspects of teaching and learning can be valued, supported and recognised
Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued

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Quality Enhancement in L&T Post Covid: An institutional perspective
2021-11-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
Drawing on participants’ collective experience of learning and teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic, this one-day online symposium will consider how to support quality enhancement in learning and teaching post Covid through the lens of a range of stakeholders including students, faculty, support staff and senior management. It will discuss various approaches including the use of assessment, CPD, library resources and VLE templates in shaping the student learning experience. This event will explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the learning and teaching experience from a range of stakeholder perspectives and will consider how these experiences can be harnessed to enhance the quality of learning and teaching as we move into the post Covid-19 era. It will also explore ways to use the outputs from the symposium to influence institutional approaches to quality enhancement in learning and teaching.
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 can be strengthened
Leveraging partnerships between those who teach and their students, as well as the wider educational community, to foster collective advocacy in strengthening the value placed on teaching and learning

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Teaching discipline-specific concepts and critical thinking with digital images in presentation technologies
2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:30 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Natasa Lackovic, Lancaster University, will be joining us online via Zoom to discuss her work in the purpose and preparation of images for presentations to encourage critical thinking. On Zoom with a live workshop in the IADT Library
Registration
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-discipline-specific-concepts-and-critical-thinking-tickets-202039043217

Practices in the disciplines – opportunities and challenges of digital education
2021-11-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
This online interactive seminar and workshop will feature a keynote presentation by Dr.Peter Bryant of the University of Sydney (Associate Dean Education & Associate Professor Business Education), that will explore and reflect on how university teaching and learning approaches required pedagogical change due to the move online. The future implications for digital education practices, across disciplines, will also be discussed. The keynote will be followed by three interactive, faculty-focused breakout sessions where Trinity academics from the respective faculty will give a short “lightning” presentation (10 mins) on a digital teaching/assessment approach that worked well for them (taking into consideration subject pedagogies) and how it might be rolled out in their discipline. An activity will follow within each breakout session where participants will get an opportunity to further explore challenges and implications for their own teaching and learning practices and disciplinary contexts (20 mins) and consider next steps (10 mins). Speaker presentations will be recorded for future access.
Focus of Event

Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Gathering views and experiences from those who learn, teach and/or lead on the shift to online/remote learning and considering what has been learned for the future about how teaching and learning can/should be valued

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Professional Development in Higher Education -Strategic Alignment Funding as a catalyst
2021-11-17 | Technological University of the Shannon, Tipperary, Ireland
Dr. Michael Francis Ryan, Sarah O’Toole and Mark O’Connor from TUS Quality, Teaching and Learning will give an overview of how the National Forum’s Strategic Alignment Fund as been a implemented across the Institution and the direct impact this funding has has on the professional development of staff within TUS.
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 can be strengthened
Sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work
Considering the place of teaching and learning in evolving institutional contexts, e.g., in the context of institutional mergers

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-dev-in-higher-education-strategic-alignment-funding-as-a-catalyst-tickets-195193979447
