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Design in Health – An Emerging Discipline?
Learning Outcomes Appreciate the role of design based approaches in enhancing health professions education Describe approaches that used to include design based approaches in health professions education Evaluate the benefits and challenges of developing design based modules/programmes in health professions education Discuss the epistemological and pedagogical considerations relevant to design in healthcare Identify how to…
Find out more »Free Resources for Courses
Learning Outcomes Look at how Open Educational Resources (OER) can work for higher education Explain the use of Creative Commons Licenses and how they work Understand and relate to how OER resources are created and maintained for wider reuse Understand how OER can create a suite of degree programmes to enable more people access to…
Find out more »The ‘What’, ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Technology-Enhanced Assessment
Learning Outcomes Express an understanding of technology enhanced assessment Critically identify reasons for utilising technology enhanced assessment in participant's own practice Illustrate practical steps for embedding technology enhanced assessment in participant's own practice Develop digital rubrics and marking schemes for use in a virtual learning environment
Find out more »Developing Culturally Responsive Assessment in Higher Education
Learning Outcomes Reflect on own cultural identity and intercultural awareness Recognise the impact of culture on learning and assessment Examine relevant concepts and issues related to designing culturally responsive assessment e.g. multicultural validity, construct validity, intercultural education Explore and evaluate a range of culturally responsive approaches to assessment Identify opportunities to support the development of…
Find out more »Action in Architecture – Teaching for Climate Change, Teaching for the Future
Learning Outcomes Enabling those attending to understand the context in which their teaching practice and methods can develop to tackle the issue of climate change with reference to the perspectives of the case studies shown and through round table discussions Enabling those attending to learn from each other, share experiences and draw strength from a…
Find out more »Creating Learning Analytics to Understand and Describe Student Activity
Learning Outcomes Explore what student engagement information is available within the VLE (Moodle) and how it may be accessed Become aware of the requirements for effective data collection to allow real time dashboarding of student data Transform student engagement data into descriptive statistics to explore student behaviour for optimisation of course design Provide feedback mechanisms…
Find out more »What Lies at the Heart of Education?
Learning Outcomes: Consider fresh perspectives on what it means to be fulfilled and engaged as a teacher and educational leader in contemporary Ireland Examine the role of teachers and educational leaders in creating positive learning environments for their students both within and outside of the classroom Debate and question what lies at the heart of…
Find out more »AHEAD Conference 2020
The 2020 Conference of the Association for Higher Education Access & Disability (AHEAD) will take place in Croke Park on 26-17 March 2020. The theme of the conference is ‘Through the Looking Glass. Reflecting on Inclusion from the Boardroom to the Classroom’. This international conference will ask contributors and participants to reflect on how we…
Find out more »Diverse Learning Environments: Creating a Campus Climate for Student Success
Learning Outcomes Identify the different perspectives about student success how it is viewed by students and universities Reflect on the needs of diverse undergraduate student cohorts and how they are currently supported Consider the elements /dimensions of campus climate that contribute to and inhibit success in an diverse learning environment Develop strategies to promote campus…
Find out more »Building Research Capacity in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Learning Outcomes Discuss what HEIs can do to facilitate research in teaching and learning Explore the motivations of lecturers to engage in research in teaching and learning Compare and contrast viable initiatives that HEIs can offer to lecturers to encourage engagement in research in teaching and learning Evaluate how structures and processes can be developed…
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