Local Enhancement Projects
The Teaching and Learning Committee in IADT comprises of academic and professional support staff who endeavour to provide a learning and teaching ecosystem to ensure students thrive in their learning…
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Quality be Framed? Designing a Quality Framework for Work-integrated Learning
Work-integrated learning (WIL) refers to the integration of disciplinary knowledge and skills (Boud and Solomon, 2001), between theoretical, practical and general life experience (Cooper, Orrell and Bowden 2010). It has…
Digital Futures – Embedding TEL at NCAD
This initiative builds upon and extends valuable learning and investment through SATLE 2019. The abrupt and intense necessity to embrace TEL due to the pandemic has brought significant change to…
VIRAL – Virtual Reality for the Acquisition of Language
Second-language learning (L2) in adulthood can pose significant challenges to learners (Legault et al., 2019). Though evidence has shown that those learning a second language whilst studying abroad have improved…
Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback for Student Success
This CUA initiative is titled Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback for Student Success and involves GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT. Total CUA budget €90,000 (includes €30,000 from LYIT). Each institute is…
ASSIST: A Support System for Supervisor Training
Supervisors play a pivotal role in supporting students on the research journey (Kiley, 2011). Despite this, many supervisors do not have a clear supervision pedagogy (Paré, 2011; Amundsen and McAlpine,…
Your Brainpower –Harnessing the Power and Potential of Brain and Behaviour for Enhanced Learning, Wellbeing, and Student Success.
It is now accepted that adolescence extends from 10-24 years, and so the majority (88%, 2017/2018) of undergraduate students in higher education (HE) are therefore considered adolescents, with cognitive, social,…
4S (Smart Student Support Scheme)
This initiative is designed specifically in response to student feedback. It utilises the feedback themes outlined below from Waterford Institute of Technology survey data (studentsurvey.ie 2013-2020, QA3 2017-20) to target…
Placing the Learner at the Centre of the Assessment Feedback Process
Assessment of learning is a communicative process. Learners create materials that are viewed, read or experienced by educators, who, in response, exercise judgement, provide advice and offer guidance. Ideally, learners…
The Student Voice: Listening and Responding to Student Experiences of Innovative Teaching and Learning Practices in the School of Business
This initiative addresses the student experience of innovative teaching practices in the School of Business, Waterford Institute of Technology and seeks to understand the impact of these innovative practices on…
