Recognising that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to the effective use of new digital technologies for teaching and learning, the What Works & Why project aims to build digital literacy and engagement for students and teachers by exploring the question: “What works and why?”
This toolkit provides templates and guidance to HEIs who wish to map and redesign existing offerings in line with the Framework and supports individuals to map existing and planned accredited formal and non-formal professional development to the Framework.
Y1 Feedback address challenges associated with feedback in the first year of Higher Education and leverages the potential of digital technologies to support and enhance feedback approaches. Highlights include 24 video case studies of technology-enabled feedback approaches for first year.
The aim of the Student Success Toolbox is to support transitions from thinking about study to the first weeks to increase retention and completion rates particularly for flexible learners (undergraduate adult, part-time and online/distance students) as this is a significant problem in the Irish Higher Education sector.
The project plans to achieve this aim by providing flexible learners with a suite of digital tools. These digital tools will assist flexible learners by helping them assess their own readiness, provide feedback and lay the foundation for successful programme completion. The digital tools will also assist teachers and institutions in providing personalised and strategically targeted feedback to potentially at risk students for learning in the digital world.
UniDoodle is a classroom response system app which allows students to quickly submit sketch-style answers via their iOS or Android device to questions asked by their teacher in class.
Features include freehand drawing and multiple choice questions.
Scholarship Update: Implementing a cultural historical activity theory approach in a blended learning course for ab initio learners of Irish
Lost in Transition A Report on Enabling Success for Flexible Learners
Technology-Enabled Feedback in the First Year: A Synthesis of the Literature
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.