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…

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…

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…

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,…

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

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…

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…

Dr Eithne Hunt hosts the Brainpower showcase and launch of the Brainpower digital badge. Bookended by puberty and culturally defined adult roles, scientists and researchers now agree that adolescence extends from age 10-24 years. To realise student success, higher education institutions must take into account that the majority of their undergraduate students are still adolescents,…

Chaired by National Forum board member, Professor Paul McSweeney (Vice-president for Learning and Teaching at UCC) who will introduce the fifth and final stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU).  The session will also feature our second poster showcase. The final Scholarship Hour will be followed by the closing…

This event will launch and celebrate a suite of Project Live exemplars that showcase community engaged and work related learning in action, as well as welcome our 2021/22 Project Live partners. Launched by the Maynooth University Experiential Learning Office in 2020,  Project Live is an initiative that facilitates collaboration between external stakeholders, academics, and students.…

This Nationwide meet and greet is open to all international students visiting Ireland and enrolled in full time education. This includes Erasmus students as well as the broader international student population. IADT will host this convivial event, with the help of the USI and International Officers from other HEI's. Registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nationwide-international-students-in-he-live-and-virtual-coffee-and-chat-tickets-202023847767

Supporting students' physical and psychosocial wellbeing in higher education is a significant concern for institutions and staff alike. Aligned to the National Forum’s definition of ‘student success’, providing opportunities for students to learn about their wellbeing within their academic structure is an important area for growth. This session will showcase the national efforts to embed…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Dr. Therese Moylan and the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship will be sharing findings from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Ireland recent Entrepreneurial Educators Digital Badge portfolios, and advising on how to best embed Entrepreneurial learning in non-business disciplines Registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entrepreneurial-education-why-is-it-important-tickets-202049835497

This webinar will comprise an introductory overview in the potential of Street Law as a sustainable form of public legal education for school and other community organisations. Public legal education includes all activities which provide opportunities for the education of members of the public on the law and legal issues of concern to them. In…

The workshop is an opportunity to explore learning in action learning and to develop a thriving community of practice to support our collective practice and learning. The principle aim is to bring practitioners and those interested in action learning as pedagogy together to reflect on the practice of action learning and to support each other…

LIFT leadership is a national not for profit organisation that provides training and development to all kinds of organisations nationally. Their focus is on the promotion of core leadership values across all aspects of life including education through democratically structured round table discussions. These core values align with the School of Education’s philosophy of teaching…