UCD LEAP: Engagement Monitoring & Remote Support Delivery in Online Environments
2021-10-27 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
Learning Objectives

Increase understanding of available domains where engagement insights can be made in an online environment
Increase understanding of how the above differ from traditional insights available from face-to-face interactions
Increase understanding of how to design VLE environments in a way which enables engagement
Increase understanding of how to pull actionable data out of the VLE and apply it in a manner which facilitates support interventions

Moodle Munch: Series 3 Webinar 02
2021-11-02 13:00 - 14:00
In this webinar, Dublin City University and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology delivered presentations.

DCU presented on different approaches to supporting peer assessment activities with students using Moodle (DigCompEdu competence 4.1 ‘Assessment strategies’)
GMIT presented on its learning analytics initiative which draws data from Moodle (DigCompEdu competence 4.2 ‘Analysing evidence’)

Presentation 01 Slides: Peer assessment approaches with Moodle
Presentation 02 Slides: Learning analytics approaches with Moodle

Click here to view recording

MoodleMunch is a community of practice centred around Moodle and related digital learning tools. The community comes together in monthly lunchtime webinar series, led by Dublin City University and supported by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

Members share knowledge, good practice and innovations from their own institutions. It provides is an opportunity to learn from one another, get a flavour of Moodle activity taking place across various regions, chew the fat, digest interesting developments and munch on ideas!
In keeping with Moodle’s mission to empower educators, each webinar explores Moodle innovations and stories that support the development of educators’ competencies on the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu).
The community is facilitated by Rob Lowney (rob.lowney@dcu.ie) – reach out if you have any questions!

Creating Haptic, Material and Equitable Online Learning in the Visual Arts
2021-11-03
Learning Objectives

Gain a toolkit of pedagogical strategies for delivering meaningful online delivery in the Visual Arts
Understand ethical and equality concerns arising from provision of Visual Arts Education online
How can embodied learning and embodied teaching be delivered online and how can tacit knowledge be captured or recognised in the online environment?
How can we advocate for the specific need for Fine Art education to be delivered on campus and resist neoliberal and capitalist impulse to remove space in institutions
Create a short questionnaire for students from each of our institutions, with the responses collated to support further discussions around best practice for Visual Art students’ needs

Strategies for Promoting Student Self Efficacy in Higher Education
2021-11-03 11:00 - 13:00
Learning Objectives

Participants will acquire an understanding of definitions/theories pertaining to student self-efficacy in the context of higher education
Participants will gain knowledge of the literature/key studies pertaining to student self-efficacy
Participants will learn how to apply pedagogical approaches and other strategies to foster student self-efficacy to enhance the teaching and learning experience
Participants will discuss the challenges, opportunities and benefits associated with the fostering of self-efficacy
Participants will explore how student self-efficacy can be developed in partnership with students

Sustainability in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sectors - asking the right questions?
2021-11-03 16:00 - 18:00
Learning Objectives

Demonstrate transformation in sustainability literacy as related to the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sector
Explore exemplars of curriculum design, pedagogical approaches and assessment strategies for sustainability in Life Sciences
Explore fundamental questions about the purpose of higher Education in building embedded pathways for lifelong sustainability

The Fusion of Theory and Practice: Reflection on the Early Years & Childhood Studies Professional Practice Placement as a Community of Practice Experience - Part 1
2021-11-04 15:30 - 17:00
Learning Objectives

To develop a community of practice exploring the triquetra relationship among student, placement supervisor and placement mentor with a focus on student well-being and student success
To discuss the fusion of theory and practice, of the interdisciplinary degree, identifying the key components that assure student well-being and student success during professional practice placement
To reflect on the key components for high quality practice that contribute to and/or inhibit the success of the student, placement supervisor and placement mentor relationship
To create a shared vision and develop an evidence–based professional practice placement model to ensure an enriched, engaged and positive experience of the professional practice placement that leads to student success
To evaluate and plan the next steps for dissemination of best practice, through an Action for Transformation Plan, facilitating a collaborative and co-created approach to ensure student success in the professional practice placement

Fostering Metacognition in the Digital Learning Environment
2021-11-05 14:00 - 17:00
Learning Objectives

Understand the key role of metacognition in effective learning
Appreciate the potential for fostering metacognitive approaches within the digital learning environment in university education
Understand how tools within the virtual learning environment (VLE) may be leveraged to support metacognitive skills development in students
Begin to frame metacognitive learning for blended implementation
Become a metacognition champion for our community of practice

Organisers:
Crystal Fulton
Emma O’Neill
Carmel Hensey

Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VITAL) Week 2021
2021-11-08 - 2021-11-12
From 08 to 12 November 2021, the higher education community will come together through local and national events to consider how we value teaching and learning and what the future of education will look like for the students of tomorrow.
Valuing Ireland’s Teaching & Learning (VIT&L) Week is for everyone. It will provide opportunities to celebrate and value what matters and to take pause and think about the future.
You can get involved in VIT&L Week by hosting or taking part in an event, sharing your teaching and learning scholarship, contributing to showcase videos, or taking part in related activities.
Read all details here.

Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VIT&L)
2021-11-08 08:00 - 2021-11-30 17:00

VP for Learning and Teaching to open Vital Week in UCC. Dr Catherine Mahony launches the Civic Engagement Toolkit
2021-11-08 11:30 - 13:30 | University College Cork
CIRTL supports staff and students who are engaged in teaching and demonstrates academic leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In UCC that academic leadership includes an ambition for further embedding civic and community engagement in the curriculum. Read more about the benefits, rationale and policy imperative in the Why Get Engaged section.
The toolkit has been devised to support all staff who teach in UCC who wish to integrate civic engagement into their teaching. Staff have requested opportunities to exchange knowledge, to hear from their peers, learn what’s worked well elsewhere, to be inspired. That is why this toolkit is centred around Practice Insights articles with practical examples and tools to support implementation from peers and colleagues in the University, nationally and internationally. This toolkit can be used to enhance professional practice in community-engaged teaching and learning and uncovers the variety of learning activities and methodologies that are available for use in teaching.
Focus of event:

Launch VITAL week
Launch Civic Engagement Toolkit

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-ucc-opening-and-launch-of-the-civic-engagement-toolkit-tickets-203121781717?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

VIT&L Week Opening Event
2021-11-08 12:00 - 12:30
Valuing Ireland’s Teaching and Learning (VIT&L) Week will run from 8 to 12 November 2021. Regional events across the sector will continue until 30 November. During this period the higher education community will come together through local and national events to consider how we value teaching and learning and what the future of education will look like for the students of tomorrow. VIT&L Week will be launched at 12:00 on Monday 08 November.
Chair of the National Forum, Lynn Ramsey will officially open VIT&L Week. The keynote speaker at this launch event is Prof Frank Coton (Senior Vice Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at University of Glasgow and international advisor to the Board of the National Forum. Prof Frank Coton will share his thoughts on Why Valuing Teaching and Learning is VITAL.
This opening event will also share an overview of VIT&L’s month-long programme by Dr Terry Maguire, Director of the National Forum.
Monday’s launch will be followed by the first of our daily scholarship hours when our inaugural Teaching and Learning Research Fellows will share their initial research findings and what they mean for higher education. Each day the scholarship hour will also include our first ever Gasta Marathon featuring 26 lightening talks over the five days, facilitated by the Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly.
Over 70 poster submissions on Teaching and Learning Scholarship, a series of podcasts and videos will be showcased during the week.
A centrepiece of VIT&L Week will be the launch on 10 November of findings from a national partnership project, the Next Steps for Teaching and Learning: Moving Forward Together project, announced recently by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, T.D. As the higher education sector plans for a potential emergence from the pandemic and begins to look to the future, this project involves leading sectoral partners working together to better understand the post-2020 teaching and learning landscape and to build an informed vision for the future of teaching and learning in Ireland.
Valuing Ireland’s Teaching & Learning (VIT&L) Week is for everyone. It will provide opportunities to celebrate and value what matters and to take pause and think about the future, together.
See a calendar of all VIT&L events to the 30 November here
You can get involved in VIT&L Week by joining us at any stage during the week and also by tuning in and sharing via the #NFVITAL hashtag.
Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/valuing-irelands-teaching-and-learning-vitl-week-opening-event-tickets-203194850267

Scholarship Hour No. 1 (First Stage in the Gasta Marathon)
2021-11-08 12:30 - 13:30
Chaired by National Forum board member Lewis Purser (Director, Learning & Teaching and Academic Affairs, at the IUA), the first Scholarship Hour will open with National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, Associate Professor Geraldine O’Neill (UCD), sharing her initial findings from her research into Work-based Assessment: Exploring Barriers and Solutions to an Emerging Assessment Challenge.
This presentation will be followed by the first stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU). Gasta speakers for the first scholarship hours are:

Scholarship Hour 1 Chaired by: Lewis Purser

12:30-12:50

Associate Prof. Geraldine O’Neill (UCD)
National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow

Work-based Assessment: Exploring Barriers and Solutions to an Emerging Assessment Challenge

Gasta Marathon begins facilitated by Gasta Master Dr. Tom Farrelly

Time
Speaker
Title of Talk
Institution

12:51-12:56
Ulrich Hoeche
Covid and Padlet the catalysts to re-evaluate reflective practice in culinary education at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
GMIT

12:57-13:02
Dr. Denise Lyons
Noelle Reilly
SKIP Model
IT Carlow

13:03-13:08
Mark Noone
The Redevelopment of the Maynooth University Computer Science Centre
MU

13:09-13:14
Dr. Lucia Walsh
Sustainability Literacy Through Authentic Assessment
TU Dublin

13.15-13:20
Darragh Coakley
ePortfolios as Tools for Work Placement and Graduate Employability
MTU

13:20-13.30

General Q&A
Chair provides a brief summary of key insights from presentations

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/valuing-irelands-teaching-and-learning-vitl-week-scholarship-hour-tickets-203232904087

VIT&L Week Virtual International Winter School (November 8th - 12th)
2021-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Marino Institute, Griffith Ave, Dublin 9, Ireland
Following on from the success of the inaugural MIE Virtual International Winter School in 2020, the VIT&L Week Virtual International Winter School will celebrate teaching and learning in Ireland and around the globe. Contributions from Irish and international guest speakers during the five day Winter School will afford participants an opportunity to engage with topics such as professional identity, being a reflective practitioner, being a collaborative professional and being a research informed professional. The Winter School will be open to Irish and international educators and students of education, and will combine both Student Connect and Staff Connect sessions. Participants will also be invited to join an international professional learning network for sharing ideas, resources and research related to teaching and learning.
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

Click here to register

Review of a recent report on Students' perception of excellent teaching in Higher Education
2021-11-09 | Technological University of the Shannon, Tipperary, Ireland
Dr. Michael Francis Ryan, – TUS Department of Quality, Teaching and Learning will provide a summary of a recent report on Students’ perception of excellent teaching in HE
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/students-perception-of-excellent-teaching-in-he-tickets-195172966597

Principles and Practices of Open Research: The PaPOR TRaIL Project and Course
2021-11-09 10:00 - 11:30 | University College Cork
The PaPOR TRaIL project aimed to develop an open education resource (OER) on Open Research for undergraduate and Masters level students. The project involved engaging with students and supervisors to develop the openly accessible PaPOR TRaIL course, which covers both what open research is and how to do it. PaPOR TRaIL is the first open research OER in Ireland and is designed to be applicable in all disciplines in which research is conducted.
This seminar will be led by Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar, School of Public Health, UCC. It will include an overview of the PaPOR TRaIL project and course and panel discussions with students and research supervisors.
Focus of event:

Overview of the PaPOR TRaIL Open Education Resources (OER)

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-principles-and-practices-of-open-research-tickets-200949313807?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Leading the Transition towards a Climate Action University
2021-11-09 11:00 - 12:30 | GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Galway, Ireland
This workshop will feature the following panel members who will field questions related to the role of higher education in supporting and leading the transit towards a more ‘sustainable’ society:
Dr. Orla Flynn (GMIT President), Dr. Brendan McCormack (IT Sligo President), Paul Hannigan (LKIT President), Professor John O’Halloran (UCC President), Jennifer Boyer (VP for Sustainability, TUD), David Minton (Director, Northern and Western Regional Assembly), Tomás Ó Síocháin (CEO, Western Development Commission), Dr. Mark Kelly (Head of Centre for Sustainability), Declan Feeney (Dept. of Environmental Sciences, IT Sligo) and Fiona Britton (Sustainability Officer, IT Sligo).
Event Open to GMIT, IT Sligo and LKIT

Virtual Tour of the ASSERT Centre
2021-11-09 11:30 - 12:30 | University College Cork
Dr Pat Henn of the ASSERT Centre, UCC offers attendees an opportunity to review a surgical and clinical skills training centre.
Focus of event:

tour of ASSERT centre

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-virtual-tour-of-the-assert-center-university-college-cork-tickets-200610510437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

TRANSforming the Curriculum
2021-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | University College Cork
Despite the socio-legal changes that have signalled greater acceptance of sexual diversity and gender expansive identities in the 21st century, worldwide studies highlight the enduring targeting of those with a sexual and/or gender minority status. Even with the constitutional and legislative changes since 2015 (marriage equality and gender recognition), LGBT+ youth face a myriad of social, familial, community, educational and healthcare challenges in Ireland. This session focuses on university-wide initiatives which can TRANSform the higher education landscape for students, staff, academics, and researchers.
Focus of event:

Dr Fiachra Ó Suilléabháin & Vanessa Lacey will highlight HE initiatives to ensure inclusion of sexual and gender minority students

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/transforming-the-curriculum-tickets-204041572837?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Scholarship Hour No. 2 (Stage 2 of the Gasta Marathon)
2021-11-09 12:30 - 13:30
Chaired by National Forum board member, Dr Leo Casey (Director of Learning & Teaching and Education Programmes at NCI), the second Scholarship Hour will open with National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, Dr Brett Becker(UCD), sharing his initial findings from his research into Teaching and Learning for the Next Era of Digital Innovation.
This presentation will be followed by the second stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU). Gasta speakers for the second scholarship hour are:

Scholarship Hour No 2 Chaired by: Leo Casey

12:30-12:50
Dr. Brett Becker (UCD)
National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow
Teaching and Learning for the Next Era of Digital Innovation

Gasta Marathon begins facilitated by Gasta Master Dr. Tom Farrelly

Time
Speaker
Title of Talk
Institution

12:51 -12:56
Angelica Risquez
Towards a Devolved Model of Management of OER? The Case of the Irish Higher Education Sector
University of Limerick

12:57-13:02
Dr. Trevor Clohessy
Fostering Transformational Learning in Higher Education: The Importance of Identifying Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

13:03 – 13:08
Sviatlana Anishchuk
Can a virtual educational learning cultivate empathy in undergraduate teaching?
Trinity College Dublin

13:09-13:14
Jerry Reen
Student partnered design of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations
University College Cork

13.15-13:20
Dr. Cormac Quigley
Developing Data Analytics Processes to Inform and Enhance Learning
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

13:20-13.30

General Q&A
Chair provides a brief summary of key insights from presentations

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/valuing-irelands-teaching-and-learning-vitl-week-scholarship-hour-tickets-203232904087

Specific Learning Difficulties - What a Difference Supports Make
2021-11-09 13:00 - 14:00 | IADT, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland
Lunchtime event led by Loreto Meagher, Student Support Staff in IADT. Loreto will be discussing the results from the ‘Do-It Profiler’ tool and outlining how academic staff can best support their students in their lectures and in the preparation of briefs. Past alumni will be joining to share their stories of how they were supported and what difference it made to their undergraduate journey.
Registration
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/specific-learning-difficulties-what-a-difference-supports-make-tickets-201701563807

IPE @ SAH - LOOKING BACK TO STEP FORWARD
2021-11-09 13:00 - 14:00
The School of Allied Health (SAH) at the University of Limerick are accoladed for Disciplinary Excellence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment approach to Interprofessional Education (IPE).
This online event will showcase scholarship and shared experience of staff and students as part of The National Forum’s VIT&L week taking place November 8-12th, 2021.
We will present scholarship of fostering IPE and share student experiences of IPE learning activities undertaken by SAH.
This work provides evidence to enhance the delivery of high-quality collaborative education and practice among healthcare professionals.
We invite academic and practice staff, clinicians, clinical and therapy management past graduates and current students to join us on Tuesday 9th November, 1-2pm in sharing and valuing ongoing teaching and learning enhancement work.
Click here to register

Student Success is What You Make It
2021-11-09 13:30 - 14:30 | University College Cork
This collaborative session will feature a presentation from Julie O’Donoghue about the Student Success Strategy, along with data insights from the Student Success Survey which closes on Monday, 1 November.
Following this, Dr. Briony Supple from CIRTL will engage attendees through a hands-on Lego Serious Play session, encouraging staff and students to think more deeply about the meaning of Student Success.
Focus of event:

Presentation on Student Success Strategy

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-student-success-satle-2020-project-tickets-201003495867?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

IPE @ SAH: Looking Back to Step Forward
2021-11-09 14:00 - 15:00 | University of Limerick, Ireland
The School of Allied Health (SAH), UL has received awards for the Disciplinary Excellence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment approach to Interprofessional Education (IPE). As national IPE leaders, we will showcase our teaching and learning through our reflection of developing an interprofessional curriculum. The pivotal event of this showcase will be an expert-led IPE training workshop. It will focus on the development of faculty capacity to sustain and enhance the existing IPE curricular activities and to lead on the development of a community of practice across health sciences faculty.
By the end of the interactive workshop participants will:

develop a plan and the materials for mixed group facilitation training;
exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas about the sustainability of quality interprofessional experiences;
develop an awareness of the qualities and traits of confident facilitators.

This keynote event will be supported by a number of sessions offered by SAH staff and students.
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 how the relational, structural, practical or policy aspects of teaching and learning can be valued, supported and recognised

ePortfolios for experiential learning: Guided by theory, cultivated by Students
2021-11-09 14:00 - 17:00
This online symposium will feature keynote presentations by Prof Kathleen Yancey (FSU, ePortfolio-as-Curriculum: Models and Practices for Developing Students’ ePortfolio Literacy) and Prof Penny Light (SGU, ‘Documenting Learning with ePortfolios: A Guide for College Instructors’) and will be interspersed with interactive presentations facilitated by Aisling Reast (Hibernia College, Registrar) and Dr Orna Farrell (DCU).
The symposium will then hear from students Laine Abria (TCD) and Alex McKibben (RCSI), mid-way through a 16-week experiential placement in ‘role emerging education’ (Preceptor Dr Cicely Roche) as part of their fourth- year studies. Laine and Alex are exploring the concept of ePortfolios, in the context of experiential learning and from the student’s perspective, and will share their findings and observations with speakers and attendees.

Focus of the Event
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

Click here to register

Virtual Games – Interactive Troubleshooting Industry Challenges in Bioanalytical Chemistry
2021-11-09 15:00 - 17:00
Eric Moore hosts a 2 hour workshop on Virtual Games – Interactive troubleshooting industry challenges in Bioanalytical Chemistry
Focus of event:

Workshop on virtual games as teaching tools

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-virtual-games-tickets-200922212747?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Operationalising SDGs, Education for Sustainable Development and human rights
2021-11-10 | Munster Technological University
The higher education (HE) sector is uniquely positioned to galvanise societal action on human rights, inclusion and sustainable development through the conscious integration of Human Rights Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) throughout all teaching and learning. This session will be run by MTU’s UNESCO Chair, with a guest speaker from UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development unit. It will showcase the potential for transformative change offered by the HE sector adopting an integrated and coherent response to the linked policy agendas of ESD, the Sustainable Development Goals, the equality diversity and inclusion agenda, and human rights. In doing so, we can produce graduates equipped to integrate development, rights and inclusion into their work throughout their career trajectory, bringing societal change. It will also highlight how public sector human rights and equality duty relates to the HE sector, strengthening the value of teaching and learning in line with HE priorities.
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

National VIT&L Event: Next Steps for Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education
2021-11-10 11:00 - 12:00
Ministerial launch of report and findings from the national sectoral partnership project Next Steps: Moving Forward Together
Simon Harris TD, Ireland’s Minister for Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science will officially launch the report and findings from the national sectoral partnership project- Next Steps for Teaching and Learning: Moving Forward Together. The overarching aim of the ‘Next Steps’ project was to address the question, in the context of COVID-19, ‘What have we learnt and what does it mean for the future of teaching and learning in Irish higher education?’
The launch will be the centre-piece of VIT&L Week events and activities. This event will share the findings from the project. These findings will be discussed by a panel which includes student, staff, senior management, sector, system and international representatives. This Ministerial launch event will be chaired and presented by Irish print and broadcast journalist Matt Cooper and will be live streamed.
Registration (Online Stream)
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/national-vitl-event-next-steps-for-teaching-and-learning-in-irish-he-tickets-203242893967
(In-person event in the RDS, by invitation only)

Inclusive UCC Project
2021-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 | University College Cork
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 Empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. This workshop will focus on a broad overview of accessibility and how staff at UCC can take small steps to empower all students. Hector will give you some tips and key takeaways. We’ll also take the time to answer your questions.
Focus of event:

Introduction to Inclusive UCC project
Demonstration of Microsoft tools

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/vital-week-inclusive-ucc-project-tickets-200958742007?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Preparing our Students for a Sustainable Future: Launch of the SDG Toolkit
2021-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | University College Cork
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 teaching staff to integrate the SDGs into teaching and learning. It includes teaching and learning strategies, videos, databases, case studies and interactive tools. The toolkit also includes mapping tools to help staff realise connections between specific SDGs and their modules, programmes or research while offering self-reflective exercises to guide further SDG integration.
The overarching goal of this SDG Toolkit is to guide students to develop a deep transformative understanding of disciplinary knowledge and values aligned with sustainable development, so they are enabled with a mindset to become innovative agents of change and to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world in both their professional and personal lives.
Focus of event:

Launch of SDG toolkit

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/preparing-our-students-for-a-sustainable-future-launch-of-the-sdg-toolkit-tickets-204049847587?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Scholarship Hour No. 3 (Stage 3 of the Gasta Marathon and Poster Showcase 1)
2021-11-10 12:30 - 13:30
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 Stage 3 begins facilitated by Gasta Master Dr. Tom Farrelly

Time
Speaker
Title of Talk
Institution

12:30-12:35
Dearbhla Cullinane
Reviving The Anatomic Past: Breathing New Life into Historic Anatomical Teaching Tools
Trinity College Dublin

12:36-12:41
Sandra Nicholson
Authentic teaching on interpreting animal emotions
University College Dublin

12:42-12:47
Eileen O’Leary
The Be ACTIVE Framework for Active Learning
Munster Technological University

12:48-12:53
Ciaran O’Leary
SUREbyts: Introducing Research to First-Year Students
SURE Network

12:54-13:06
Poster Showcase No. 1

13:07-13:12
Niall Fahy
Compliance is Key
Munster Technological University

13:13-13:18
Dr. Ciara Duignan
Siobhán Creedon
Geraldine Doyle
Dr. Violeta Morari
Student partnership in wellbeing research and scholarship
University College Dublin

13:19-13.24
Cróna O’Donoghue
U_N_I_Q_U_E Creative Process
Letterkenny Institute of Technology

13:25 -13:30
Maria P. Morgan
Rapid implementation of a hybrid converged-teaching model with a large class size; impact on student performance & satisfaction ratings
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland

Registration
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/valuing-irelands-teaching-and-learning-vitl-week-scholarship-hour-tickets-203232904087
