Learning Objectives • Consider the benefits of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages in language teaching and learning • Assess the potential and the benefits of the CEFR in teaching languages • Reflect on the lecturer's/teacher's own language teaching practices in light of the CEFR • Share good practice and experience in…
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…
Learning Objectives • To facilitate participants’ understandings of their own contexts of teaching and learning as a nexus of practices situated in a teaching and learning regime • To enhance participants’ skills as change agents by developing their practice sensibilities • To configure enhancement aspirations into a realistic appreciation of effective implementation processes, particularly in…
Learning Objectives • Appraise a variety of ways in which contemplative pedagogy can be introduced into the classroom to initiate and sustain enquiry, promote creative and engaged student learning and the exploration of interiority and nurturing wholeness to foster a sense of student wellbeing • Engage with contemplative methods and explore possible practical applications within…
Learning Objectives • Understand the unique characteristics of cohort-based PhD programmes • Implement best-practice in cohort-based PhD training • Contribute to the design of cohort-based PhD programmes • Add to the conversation around student success in cohort-based PhD learning
Learning Objectives • Understand the role of occupational therapists in higher education settings • Understand the Healthy Campus Charter • Understand the tiered public health occupational therapy approach to supporting student participation, health, wellbeing and success *This event was deferred from the 2019/20 National Seminar Series
Learning Objectives Discuss the value of developmental activities within the wider context Conduct a benefit/loss analysis of the activities Identify both intended and unintended consequences of educational and/or professional development Plan for future developments to increase value and recognition of educational development
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…
