Embedding Sustainability across the Curriculum and Beyond – Stimulating Active Citizenship for Possible Sustainable Futures

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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 skills and the values that will motivate and empower them throughout their lives to become informed citizens who take action for a more sustainable future.’…

Data Analytics to Inform and Enhance Learning (DAnIEL)

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This capacity building T&L initiative aims to create accessible learning analytics for learners and lecturers and in doing so, inform and enrich learning in Higher Education. This project will maximise and drive GMIT’s Data for Enhanced Student Success Policy though digital transformation of learning. This initiative will embed and facilitate an inclusive, collaborative and innovative…

Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Programme and Module Evaluation

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The purpose of this interdisciplinary T&L initiative is to examine how qualitative and quantitative student feedback and evaluation of teaching approaches, at module and programme level, can support enhancement of the student learning experience and contribute to continuing professional development for staff who teach. The initiative involves two strands: 1. Exploring and piloting a range…

Teaching, Learning, and Engagement in Science & Engineering – a Collective Endeavour

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The College of Science & Engineering was formed in September 2019 by the merger of two separate colleges, each with different long-established models of curricular design, teaching approaches, assessment practices, and disciplinary cultures. Under this T&L initiative, it is proposed to use the unique opportunity presented by this merger to: 1. Undertake a comprehensive review…

Structured PhD Module in Research Integrity and Impact in an Open Scholarship Era

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Based upon feedback from Trinity schools and students, ‘Research Integrity and Impact in an Open Scholarship Era,’ under this T&L initiative, an existing module for incoming doctoral students will be redesigned from a pedagogical perspective and rebuilt from the ground up, making it applicable across multiple disciplines and contexts. In partnership with students and faculty…

Integrated Formative Feedback for Learning and Growth (iFLAG)

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Assessment of students in higher education increasingly emphasises the developmental role of assessment. Thus, the generation of meaningful feedback by teachers on student’s work is necessary to guide student’s future learning and performance. The School of Allied Health at the University of Limerick have introduced written feedback practices on their professional qualification programmes of Dietetics…

An Inter-Disciplinary Approach for Spatial Skill Development: Supporting First-Year Students in Working with Spatial Information

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Numerous research studies have highlighted that young adolescents across the globe often struggle when learning with visual information that includes spatial data. In an increasingly visual world spatial data is now embedded across disparate disciplines including; STEM, Architecture, Business, Geography, and Medicine among others. Both 2-D and 3-D spatial data can be found in drawings,…