Delta Award Call

Disciplinary Excellence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA)
Enhancing and transforming teaching and learning within disciplines
Phase 3 of Ireland’s national learning impact awards (discipline-focused)

Teaching Hero Awards

The Teaching Hero Awards learning impact awards were first launched in January 2014. The awards are run in partnership with the Union of students of Ireland (USI). Students can nominate their teaching hero by completing an online nomination form, which includes the reasons why a staff member is a teaching hero as well as the impact this has had on the students teaching and learning experience. The campaign is run locally by the student’s union office within each institution.

Feedback in First Year: A Landscape Snapshot

This report F’eedback in First Year: A Landscape Snapshot Across Four Irish Higher Education Institutions’ details the findings from the Y1Feedback study conducted in 2015, which reviewed current feedback practice and experiences of feedback in first year across the four Y1Feedback partner institutions; Maynooth University, Athlone Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, and Dundalk Institute of Technology.