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Launch of first DigitalEd book with 20 cases in teaching a learning, 8 themes and 30+ contributors!

We are delighted to launch the first DigitalEd book of case studies, sharing a collection of digital teaching, learning and assessment stories, from across the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA), including…

Ask Me Anything!

Answering the call of Academic Staff transitioning to the world of Online Teaching and Beyond Prior to the pandemic, the Teaching and Learning Office in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)…

E-portfolios Demonstrate Student Learning in a Personal Way

E-portfolios are digital representations of students’ work along with reflections on their learning (Reynolds et al, 2014). They offer students many opportunities to demonstrate and reflect on their learning through…

Remote Assessment: Creating, Correcting and Preventing Collusion Academic Society Webinar

As engineering academics work through this challenging academic year resulting from the ongoing worldwide Novel Coronavirus pandemic, the Engineers Ireland Academic society hosted its second webinar on the 28th October…

Assessment Practice in Higher Education – Sharing Examples / Ideas for online assessment

As a lecturer in the Department of Computing at GMIT, I have used various assessment methods/ practices over the years for blended modules and for the traditional face to face…

Remote and virtual laboratories: Equipping students for hands-off learning – Academic Society Webinar

As engineering academics prepare for the new academic year, the Engineers Ireland Academic society hosted a free webinar on September 3rd, on the topic of Remote and virtual laboratories –…

What does an online lecture look like?

Dr Carina Ginty and Annette Cosgrove (GMIT Teaching and Learning Office and the DigitalEd.ie project team) have prepared a guide to help support lecturers plan for the delivery of an…

A Review of Kialo – A Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking and Rational Debate

GMIT’s onsite, flexible learning religious studies programmes are currently being redeveloped into and recast as four new blended learning programmes. The challenge of successfully transitioning the content of an onsite-delivered,…

A Smorgasboard of Teaching & Learning Tips and Tricks from the DigitalEd Discovery Webinar Series

The Digital Ed webinar series was an action-packed offering of workshops outlining various aspects of using digital media in teaching and learning. Here I will outline my experience based on…

Using a Visualiser 101

What is the Ipevo visualiser? The Ipevo visualiser is a tool that allows you to capture documents, live or pre -recorded drawings of graphs or mathematical worked examples, textbooks, artwork…

Do you have a digital story to tell?

We are accepting submissions for the blog in order to feature all kinds of digital stories. Contact us to learn more about submitting your own digital story.