DkIT – Embedding Employability
This T&L initiative aims to develop a shared vision of employability at DkIT and a model that programme teams can use to ‘employability-proof’ their programmes. This will support the development…
Development of a Strategy and Framework for a Digital Learner Support Hub
The aim of this T&L initiative is to develop an action plan, structure and mechanisms for a digital learner support hub, available to all UL’s learning centres (LCs) to facilitate…
Supporting International students across the Connacht Ulster Alliance through the implementation of an Online English Language Support Programme
The aim of this multi-campus T&L initiative is to provide IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT international students (or students for whom English is not their first language) with high quality…
Using electronic notebooks to enhance laboratory practical sessions, enquiry-based learning and project supervision in the School of Science.
Scientific reporting and notebook keeping are essential skills for students’ laboratory practices and their future professional careers. The use of electronic notebooks (eNBs) is becoming increasingly popular across science, pharmaceutical…
Final Year Matters – Moving On
‘Final Year Matters – Moving On’ is the complementary programme flanking ‘First Year Matters’, IADT’s extended orientation for incoming students. The purpose of the final year programme is to facilitate…
Pandemic Pedagogy: The impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning at UCC
The impact of UCC’s Certificate/Diploma/Masters in Teaching and Learning on teaching staff has been evidenced at a local level through participants’ self-reflective portfolios and end of semester evaluations. However, co-ordinators…
ELUCiDATA – Experiential Learning Using natural heritage Collections and Data
The School of BEES has extensive collections of zoological, geological and botanical material with potential value as a learning resource for students. Unfortunately, these important collections (with essential associated data)…
Harnessing the power and potential of adolescent brain and behaviour for enhanced learning, wellbeing and student success: the interdisciplinary creation and piloting of an innovative online digital badge (DB) for higher education academic and academic support services staff
Bookended by puberty and culturally defined adult roles, it is now accepted that adolescence extends from 10-24 years, meaning that the majority of undergraduates are still adolescents, without fully developed…
Supporting Teaching and Learning of Open Research Principles and Practices
Accessible, student-centred, evidence-based open research education will enhance student capacity to implement open research practices. Open research involves increasing transparency and accessibility across all research stages and is recognised as…
Medication safety: inter-professional teaching and learning using simulation
This T&L initiative identifies that there is an urgent need to develop an alternative approach to the teaching of medication safety, one that recognises the need for integration between disciplines.…
