TUDublin IMPACT: Teaching and Learning for Student Success
TU Dublin IMPACT: Teaching and Learning for Student Success is a strategic T&L initiative that will help us to build organisational capacity by maximising the impact of our teaching and…
Developing Team Based Learning as a Unique Student-Centred Pedagogy (USP)
Team Based Learning (TBL) is a student-centred approach to learning whereby students work together in the same diverse, self-managed teams throughout a module. In meta-analytic studies, TBL has been associated…
Working Collaboratively to Enhance Provision for those who Teach and Learn Online in Athlone Institute of Technology
Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) is committed to addressing the mission-based compact objective of providing a strong talent pipeline combining knowledge, skills and employability to respond effectively to the needs…
E-portfolios and reflective learning
In line with the National Forum’s strategic priority of professional development for staff, this T&L initiative focuses on augmenting educators’ skills in use of e-portfolios and the teaching of reflective…
Training the trainers: development of school-based online and blended learning expertise
E-learning has enormous potential for enhancing teaching and learning at all levels of the education sector. However, the potential of e-learning is often undermined by academics’ lack of technical (software…
Promoting Student Engagement in Large Class Environments
The aim of this T&L initiative is to conduct a study of student engagement in large class environments (100+). The initiative will explore strategies to encourage student engagement in large…
Fostering Staff and Student Creativity
Creativity is central to our individual and collective well-being. It is a resource which has underpinned human survival and development and is key to our sustainable progress. In recognition of…
Empowering student learning: Using comparison and feedback as drivers of self-directed learning
This T&L initiative ‘Empowering student learning: Using comparison and feedback as drivers of self-directed learning’ applies a comparison-based approach to feedback generation and use. This is transformative in nature and…
EAT-PD: Enabling Academic Transitions through Professional Development
This T&L initiative focuses on enabling excellence during key academic transitions, i.e. academic staff as they transition into higher education (HE) and faculty leaders as they transition into and through…
Embedding Sustainability across the Curriculum and Beyond – Stimulating Active Citizenship for Possible Sustainable Futures
The National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 2014-2020 (Department of Education and Skills, 2014) aims to ‘ensure that education…equips leaners with the relevant knowledge, the key dispositions and…
