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This webinar shares guidance and resources on the development of enabling policies for digital and open teaching and learning to underpin enhanced practice.

Building on the Part 1 on 06 May 2021, this webinar continues the national conversation about the future for the assessment of learning through final examinations.

This webinar shared and debated a range of perspectives from students, staff, senior managers and other stakeholders on assessment of learning through a final examination.

This webinar begins a national conversation on how we understand the concept of an agile curriculum and what can be learned and shared across related projects and initiatives at national level.

‘Using Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) for Teaching and Learning’. This National Forum open resource was developed in partnership with colleagues across the Irish higher education sector.

This webinar will be helpful to staff across the sector who are interested in further exploring and supporting the use of OER and OEP in their own contexts.

This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the recent Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey. For more information on the INDEx Survey, including the full findings report, see here.

This webinar describes the rationale, planning, implementation and key results of the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey and, building on this, explores the potential for further collaboration across European networks.

This symposium marks the culmination of a National Forum, and Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) partnership that has led to a series of events throughout 2020 titled ‘Work-based Assessment: Exploring Critical Issues and Sharing Solutions’.

At this event, key INDEx findings in relation to data privacy and data protection, informed by close to 30,000 students and staff who teach from across Irish higher education, are summarised and then explored with respect to teaching and learning, institutional policies, digital and data literacies, and student-staff partnership.

“Exploring the Challenge of Consistency ” is the second Work-based Assessment (WBA) webinar brought to you by the National Forum and partner, QQI. During the first webinar some main key challenges were identified by the participants, i.e. consistency/reliability, feedback, authenticity. The most common theme identified was consistency and reliability in the work experience context.

The EDTL student intern team has collaborated to produce advice for students for effective remote learning during Covid-19, to accompany the EDTL Approach for modules and programmes.

This short guide provides an introduction to peer triads for participants in National Forum PD Open Courses

This short guide provides advice to Facilitators for establishing and supporting peer triads in a National Forum PD Open Course and claiming a digital badge.

The purpose of this guide is to explain the National Forum’s professional development (PD) open course design and development process and to provide guidance on good practice for collaborating development teams. This document should be read by the full development team to inform their open course development proposal and preparation for delivery.

The EDTL Approach has been developed to support effective remote teaching in the context of COVID-19 and outlines a pathway with key considerations for those who are adapting a programme that is normally taught, wholly or partly, face-to-face.

The EDTL Approach has been developed to support effective remote teaching in the context of COVID-19 and outlines a pathway with key considerations for those who are adapting a module that is normally taught, wholly or partly, face-to-face.

The EDTL Approach has been developed to support all staff who support learning for effective remote teaching in the context of COVID-19 and outlines a pathway with key considerations for those who are adapting a lab based module that is normally taught, wholly or partly, face-to-face.

This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.

This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.

This WBA webinar is the first in a webinar and national symposium series hosted by the National Forum and QQI.

This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the recent Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.

This webinar explores how to share resources that you have developed as open educational resources (OER) in order to facilitate sharing and reuse by others.

This online event held on 7 May 2020 takes place at a time of unprecedented global challenge in which the importance of confident, supported engagement with digital technology has become clear to all.

The National Forum’s ‘Embedding Data Use for Supporting Students’ webinar took place on Tuesday 28 April 2020. It is the third in an ongoing National Forum webinar series that looks at effective practices for using data to support students.

Guide for teams who are interested in applying for the DELTA Award

In support of our higher education community, and to help everyone work together, we have created a spreadsheet of links to useful online teaching resources. This is an interactive resource and we welcome additions that you think may be useful to your colleagues across the sector. We are also curating other useful resources for the list – you can find these on the second tab of the spreadsheet.

Case Study: Dr Hazel Farrell of Waterford Institute of Technology gives an overview of how she uses low stakes, weekly quizzes to inform her teaching practice and identify students that may be experiencing difficulty

Case Study: Dr Cormac Quigley and Dr Etain Kiely of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology show how they are using everyday tools to enable at-scale, personalised feedback to large student cohorts

This report discusses the views of final year students and recent graduates who attended a TCD led, multi-institutional one-day workshop on what student success means to them, and what they identified as the facilitators of and barriers to achieving that success.