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This January, the National Forum will roll-out its second national iteration of an online open course entitled ‘Getting Started with Online Teaching’, following its open call for registration. This free fully online course will be delivered to 40 participants across further and higher education for six weeks from 27 January in partnership with Dublin City University, Maynooth University, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology…

A total of 17 networks and discipline groups across the sector have been approved for funding under the National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund, which was announced last November. This iteration of the Fund has a focus on Shared Solutions to Common Challenges. It aims to support networks and discipline groups to work together…

What a year it has been!  As we prepare to say goodbye to 2020 and set our sights on a more hopeful 2021, we decided to take a moment to remember some of the teaching and learning highlights of the past 12 months. Highlight 1: Student Learning Supported Through the Pandemic Context Reflecting on the…

A Christmas bumper edition of the National Forum ezine has just been published here, including a blend of regular features and seasonal novelties. The Christmas ezine has mentions of paths, journeys, maps, spaces, shapes, stopping, starting, continuing, past, present, future, daybreak, afternoons, evenings, mornings, endings, beginnings. Especially for the festive season, it has a festive…

A highly engaging networking event for teams funded under the 2019 Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE) Fund took place on 01 December. The event, originally planned to take place face-to-face in the Aviva, took place instead online with 88 representatives across 22 institutions attending. The meeting provided an opportunity for teams to…