DCU Assessment Experience
This initiative will address assessment practice and policy (with a particular emphasis on programme assessment). It is driven by a number of different considerations – the impact of modularisation, an…
Challenge-based Learning at DCU
At present, the University is engaged with a comprehensive curriculum renewal project across all its faculties. As part of that renewal, we have committed to introduce innovations in pedagogy that…
Data-informed VLE Engagement
This initiative explores an evidence-based approach to engagement in online and blended learning environments and student success. Using the rich data source of engagement with our VLE, we will analyse…
Learning Enhancement Project Funding
This initiative will fund small Local Enhancement Projects (LEPs) at faculty levels across the university. A call will be issued at faculty level for expressions of interest in seed funding…
Dublin City University Local Enhancement Projects
The T&L initiative team consists of Associate Deans in Teaching and Learning (ADTLs); the Teaching Enhancement Unit (TEU); and the Students’ Union. The project team will put out a call…
From Passion to Action: Student Social Innovation (SSI)
PASSION- from Passion to Action – educating Students in Social InnovatiON, is a T&L initiative concerned with upskilling, enabling and empowering academic staff to embed social innovation and entrepreneurship in…
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,…