Enhancing Placement Experience in Civil Engineering
The inclusion of placement and work-based learning as key opportunities for enhancing student learning experiences has become a key area of focus informed by HEA targets. The aim of this…
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…
Computing teaching at its best: Applying state of the art computing pedagogy for more successful student outcomes
This T&L initiative is a computer science (CS) pedagogy project that involves collating current state of the art CS pedagogy and a collaborate, exploratory approach with the School of Computing…
Professional Development of Off-campus Mentors
This collaborative T&L initiative aims to build student success through developing the digital literacy skills of the Bachelor in Early Childhood Education (BECE) lecturing team to design and develop an…
Engineering design curriculum renewal through challenge based learning
This T&L initiative is designed to develop capabilities and resources to support challenge based learning as a central theme of the senior and postgraduate years of our taught engineering programmes,…
Practice Based Learning in the Social Sciences
This T&L initiative aims to improve the role of practice based learning in the Social Sciences, by building on established expertise in both Law and Political Science, where the team…
A digital badged blended learning award and policy for developing quality assured digital badge awards
The digital badged blended learning award aims to create the right circumstances and an empowering setting to realise the potential for digital badges within WIT. This T&L initiative is a…
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…
