Designing Learning Outcomes for Labs
2022-05-04 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The ability to deliver effective laboratories in higher education came under sharp focus during the pandemic with the move to online teaching and learning. Prior to this move, the department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education in the University of Sheffield had re-examined their approach to the provision of labs across engineering programmes. As a result they developed a new model for lab delivery, one that included rigorous development of learning outcomes for the labs, with a focus on the cross disciplinary nature of practical engineering skills. During the pandemic they found that these changes facilitated a somewhat smoother transition of labs to the online mode than may otherwise have been expected.
In this workshop Prof Andrew Garrard and Dr Adam Funnell will outline their experiences of refocusing the labs within the engineering programmes in the University of Sheffield, and what worked and what didn’t during the pandemic. As part of the workshop, you will be guided through the process of developing effective learning outcomes for your labs that are situated within the wider context of the module and the associated programme. You will also be facilitated in the development of lab types that can be used both to achieve different types of learning outcomes and different modes of lab delivery.
This event has been funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
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Please note that this is an in-person event.

Practices in the disciplines – opportunities and challenges of digital education
2021-11-17 10:00 - 12:00
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 disciplines, will also be discussed. The keynote will be followed by three interactive, faculty-focused breakout sessions where Trinity academics from the respective faculty will give a short “lightning” presentation (10 mins) on a digital teaching/assessment approach that worked well for them (taking into consideration subject pedagogies) and how it might be rolled out in their discipline. An activity will follow within each breakout session where participants will get an opportunity to further explore challenges and implications for their own teaching and learning practices and disciplinary contexts (20 mins) and consider next steps (10 mins). Speaker presentations will be recorded for future access.
Focus of 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

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