Team Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning
2021-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Virtual
Learning Objectives: Explain the essential elements that make up a team-based learning unit; Describe the benefits and challenges of using TBL; Plan for the introduction of team-based learning to a curriculum

Practical and Pedagogical Approaches to Online and Blended Learning Design with Dr Orna Farrell, DCU
2021-12-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Working within DCU’s National Institute for Digital Learning. Orna’s research interests include online pedagogy, online student success and engagement, eportfolio and open educational practice. She has a growing publication record in her fields of interest, including a range of book chapters, journal articles, invited presentations and conference papers. She has published in high ranking journals such as Distance Education, the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Research in Learning Technology, and the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.

Design a better 2022 – enhancing digital productivity and wellbeing for early career academics
2021-12-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Learning Objectives: Engage in purposeful and critical reflection on everyday digital working practices as they relate to professional development and wellbeing; Participate in interdisciplinary peer dialogue and cultivate a professional network that seeks to enhance digital wellbeing in the context of academic teaching and learning; Identify key innovations in digital technologies to enhance learning, teaching and assessment

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Collaborative International Online Learning (COIL)
2021-12-15 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Project highlights focused on digital capacity and flexible learning delivery from IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT.

GMIT Christmas Teaching & Learning Showcase
2021-12-16 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
Dr Edd Pitt, University of Kent, will join us to deliver a keynote address on Creating Opportunities within the Curriculum followed by teaching & learning showcases from the GMIT President’s Teaching Excellence Award & graduates from the Certificate in Teaching & Learning. Additional showcases include a report from the GMIT SURE Network, the new online Civic Engagement course, digital tools for action & expression, and an update on the iNOTE/DigitalEd Project.

GMIT Christmas Teaching & Learning Showcase 2021

Remote Labs Virtual Symposium 2021
2021-12-16 14:00 - 17:15 | Virtual
Calling all STEM educators! We are looking to build a global community to support the delivery of Remote and Online Labs in STEM Education. The aim is to share resources, ideas, and techniques, while engaging in constructive discussions with like-minded individuals.
Remote Labs Virtual Symposium 2021 – Schedule

To Explore Authentic and Appropriate Built Environment CPD Educational Practice
2022-01-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
The seminar aims to explore authentic and appropriate teaching, learning and assessment practice for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the Built Environment. It will focus on best practice in higher education and open discussions on CPD requirements and their development. The seminar aims to get discussions going on what people require from CPDs and to get down to what the issues are, and how to address them.

What the H5P!? Hands On Workshop
2022-01-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
It may sound like something scary but H5P is actually a quick and easy way to develop interactive activities and learning resources to use online with Moodle and also for face-to-face teaching. It’s a completely free and open technology, a great tool for all experience levels and it’s ready and waiting for you to use.
Join me for a hands-on (virtual) workshop – limited to 6 places – where will take a tour of the basics of H5P, its benefits and limitations plus the wide variety of activities you can create. From quizzes, to games and interactive videos – there’s a huge choice of templates and all we have to do is just fill them in – which is exactly what we’re going to do!

Launch Event - Engaged Research & Innovation for Societal Impact: Building Capacity Across Ireland - New 6-week Online Course
2022-01-24 13:00 - 13:40 | Virtual
We warmly welcome you to help us launch our new Train-the-Trainer Online Course. Hear first-hand how taking this course can help your organisation embed engaged research and innovation practice to address our greatest societal challenges with public policy makers, civic society, patients, industry and others. The launch event will showcase course content, intended course learning outcomes, and how to register.

Digital West 2022 - Cybersecurity & Trust
2022-01-25 | Virtual
Speaker Lineup: Andrea Manning CEO & Founder CyberPie – GDPR & CyberSecurity Speciailist. Member of ITAG Cyber Forum and Cyber Ireland. LEO Mentor & International Speaker
Mathieu Gorge, CEO at VigiTrust – Chairman of the VigiTrust Global Advisory Board – Featured ForbesBooks Author
Dr. Seamus Dowling, programme chair and lecturer in cybersecurity at GMIT. Co-founder, administrator and academic instructor of the Cisco Academy at GMIT. Fulbright Ireland TechImpact Scholar 2021/22
Detective Garda Paul Fitzpatrick – IACIS Certified Computer Forensic Examiner and Cybercrime Investigator.
Eoin Byrne – Cluster Manager at Cyber Ireland
Eamonn Larkin – Program Director of Devops at IBM
and many more…

Active Learning Strategies – A Travel and Tourism Programme Perspective
2022-01-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the national and international travel and tourism industries y have been well documented to date (WTO, 2021; OECD, 2021; Fáilte Ireland, 2021; ITIC, 2021Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay. As a result, education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. COVID-19 has created challenges in our educational system worldwide (UNESCO, 2020). Due to this pandemic, the higher education system in travel and tourism has moved away from traditional classroom settings to non-traditional environments such as hybrid and online classrooms. The recent movement has significantly changed the way lecturers teach and engage students in this new environment, creating issues for both lecturers and students. Travel and tourism academics continually endeavour to apply creative and varied active learning techniques to maximise learning opportunities such as guest lectures which play an integral part in the module delivery for any travel and tourism programme. The aim of this seminar is to investigate the viability of delivering a 100% online level 8 travel and tourism education in Ireland. Consequently, this seminar will be incorporate the expertise of three leading academics in the field of both the national and international context of travel and tourism on how Irish higher education institutions can realise their potential to deliver world-class travel and tourism programmes solely online.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Graphic Facilitation
2022-01-26 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

Challenges for Learning Design & Teaching Practice Beyond the Pandemic
2022-01-26 13:30 - 15:00 | Virtual
The earlier embedding of student-centred approaches to learning and teaching, digital innovation, co-creation and institutional capacity building were key to the transition to emergency remote teaching across the global HE sector in March 2020. Many institutions wedded to traditional teaching methods encountered barriers as they moved from campus-based provision to online learning at scale and at very short notice. In this session, Ale will reflect on how pedagogic transformation normalised before Covid-19 influenced the way institutions and their students operated during the pandemic. Drawing from his work at the University of Northampton between 2012 and 2020, he will explore what this preparedness involves, including creative and sometimes radical ways of tackling challenges. He will review recent research into student and staff engagement in blended learning settings, as well as implications and challenges for learning design, teaching practice and “emergency professional development” beyond the pandemic.

Using Creative Methodologies to Explore Issues in Educational Practice
2022-01-26 16:00 - 18:30 | Virtual
This online seminar offers theoretical and methodological insights on a range of creative and pedagogic approaches to data gathering and analysis. It also focuses on issues of interpretation and its role in narrative research through offering alternative forms of ‘giving voice’. It is envisaged that the session will include practical tasks where attendees will experiment with such methods – with a particular focus on participant voice, and how creative approaches can access and embolden same.

Ally - Accessible Content Is Better Content
2022-01-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Blackboard Ally helps institutions build a more inclusive learning environment and improve the student experience by helping them take clear control of course content with usability, accessibility and quality in mind. Ally helps to provide alternative formats for all learners which will help to improve the overall student experience with alternative formats that provide students with the choice and added flexibility that comes with a more personalised approach.

Mayo Campus Workshop: Implementing the Programmatic Review Transformation Framework (PRTF) - Assessment, Employability & Sustainability
2022-01-31 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
GMIT Mayo Campus staff are invited to learn how to embed the three themes into their programme and module review process.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Systematic Review MOOC
2022-02-02 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

Transforming a website of resources to a learning suite (lessons learned!)
2022-02-16 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Ian Miller (IACLE) as he shares his reflections on transforming a website of resources into a learning suite

Coaching and coaching approaches in higher education settings
2022-02-16 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual
This seminar will provide participants with an opportunity to hear from a thought leader in the area of coaching in educational settings and to discuss coaching as it is can be applied in their own contexts. Through it, attendees will gain insights into how coaching can contribute to student success through the structured development of learner agency and self-efficacy.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Engineering Supports & Dymanics/Power Electronics Module
2022-02-23 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Full-Time Online a New Model of learning on the Irish Central Applications Office System (CAO)
2022-03-02 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

RCSI SIM National Seminar Series - Day 1
2022-03-04 09:30 - 15:30
National Seminar Series RCSI SIM is holding a two-day teaching and learning workshop. Sessions include: Maximizing the Impact of Learning Conversations in Experiential Education, Enhancing Effectiveness of Teaching Teams Through Team Inclusiveness, and Using Design-Based Research to Promote Cross-Sector Communication Training.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: English Language Programme to Support International Learners
2022-03-09 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

National Forum Seminar: A Practice Exchange of Innovations in EBP Education
2022-03-10 10:30 - 13:30
This seminar will explore the embedding of evidence based practice (EBP) teaching and learning within and across healthcare professional curricula. EBP is fundamental for safe, high-quality healthcare and therefore an essential component of all healthcare programmes. However, designing and integrating EBP learning opportunities which explicitly and progressively drive student learning is a known curriculum design challenge. A recent Irish HEI review found that EBP was infrequently embedded within curricula (Lehane 2018). In response a UCC-led team recently defined EBP core competencies for health professionals (Lehane 2020). Building on this work, UCD formed an EBP Education Collaborative (EVIBEC) and built on this work, developing a vertical interdisciplinary framework, co-designed with students, that mapped learning outcomes to these competencies and suggested learning activities to achieve these.

Back in the Classroom: Using technology to enhance students learning
2022-03-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
This session will demonstrate how lecturers can continue to use technology to enhance the teaching and assessment experience of their students. Topics will include TEL tools for engagement, Use of technology for assessment (Flipgrid, Notepad, E-portfolio, Blog, podcast), and using TEAMS to create an online discussion space/learning community for a student group.

RCSI SIM National Seminar Series - Day 2
2022-03-11 09:30 - 15:30
National Seminar Series RCSI SIM is holding a two-day teaching and learning workshop. Sessions include: Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) and Feedback Literacy, Promoting a Team Approach to Patient Safety, and Preparing Simulated Participants for Feedback Practices in Communication Skills.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Research Writing Supports
2022-03-16 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

AHEAD Conference 2022: Safe Haven or Stormy Port? Exploring how tertiary education design impacts our health
2022-03-21 - 2022-03-25 | Virtual
The conference will focus on a number of key themes and areas highlighting the variety of elements involved in creating a positive and student centric tertiary education experience for all students. These themes have been influenced by outcomes of the ongoing work and discussions of the AHEAD/USI Students with Disabilities Advisory Group 2020/21. Group members have frequently cited over-assessment, assessment bunching, the lack of flexibility afforded to them and inaccessibility of learning materials/practices as significant causes of anxiety and stress.

Building a Community of Inquiry Online: Deepening Student Experiential Learning
2022-03-22 09:30 - 12:00
This interactive workshop introduces participants to the process of creating meaningful collaborative online student learning experience through targeted teaching presence, underpinned by the educational Community of Inquiry (ECoI) framework (Garrison et al., 2000). ECoI will be used to first address course design and then course implementation (Swan et al., 2014). Tools including guided reflection and questioning instructional methods will be used to consider how a balance of direct instruction and facilitation (Nasir et al., 2018) can help guide learners’ written or audio-recorded reflections based on assigned readings and personal experience. Discipline specific questioning methods will be used to consider how learner reflections can be challenged through the inquiry lens, thereby moving away from superficial discussion responses to more meaningful dialogue and engagement with tutor and peers, ultimately leading to greater learning outcomes (Hambacher et al., 2018). Examples of both individual and group inquiry activities will help participants consider the optimum level of online teacher presence and influence. This approach can help build a community of inquiry, where learners reply to the teacher and/or peer questions through dialogue, modelling and facilitation (Liu, 2018). This thinking-encouraging approach is effective in engaging and challenging online learners, reinforced by an iterative peer feedback loop as a scalable intervention (Fillusa et al., 2018). Considerations include scaffolding, instructional design, and understanding students’ comfort level with collaborative online work (Robinson et al., 2017). Examples of how rubrics can be built to map learner inquiry skill development to programme assignments will form part of the workshop.

GMIT's Virtual Graduation Ceremony
2022-03-23 | Virtual
Tune in to watch GMIT’s live, virtual Graduation Ceremony to celebrate the success of our most recent graduates. This ceremony includes graduates from the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning. The ceremony will be broadcast on the GMIT Official Facebook Page and on the GMIT YouTube Channel.
Time to be confirmed.
