Category: Blog

Moodle’s Completion Tracking feature provides a straightforward way to help students see what activities they have Completed and what is To Do, allowing them to organise and motivate their learning….

Exploring how virtual, augmented and immersive technologies can support teaching, collaboration and experiential learning across ATU. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and interactive 360° environments…

With all the online and hybrid learning embedded into our busy schedules these days, it can be overwhelming and difficult to determine which teaching and learning events are most beneficial…

This blog post is a summary of my recent journal article “Learning Design in the Time of COVID-19: The Digital Learning Design Unit Story”. Learning design is a methodical approach…

The definition of eHealth as outlined by the Health Service Executive, Ireland, is as follows: “eHealth is a term to describe a set of digitising technologies in the health domain….

The ATU Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback Project Symposium was hosted on June 2nd, 2022, on site at ATU Galway City. There was fantastic engagement from ATU colleagues with up to…

Most higher level educators are now back in the classroom teaching in a face-to-face learning environment. However, it is important that educators continue to nurture and grow the new technical…

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…

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 ATU were busy devising new…

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…