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As part of the DigitalEd development initiatives for the ATU, a monthly webinar and workshop series is coordinated by the ATU Teaching and Learning Centre (Galway-Mayo). Check out upcoming events below.

Beyond Belonging: Creating Online and Blended Spaces for First-Generation Students to Flourish

Virtual

Although first-generation students—those first in their families to pursue higher education—comprise a sizable portion of gateway (or general education) course enrollment, little, if any, attention has been given to the pedagogical approaches that might be used to meet the needs of this diverse student population (Baldwin et al., 2021). This webinar will focus on strategies […]

Free

Open Education Week 2023 – “What Is the Future of Open Education?”

Virtual

In this panel session with policymakers and experts on open, online and distance education we will reflect on the present situation regarding open education. Open education is a philosophy, a way of carrying out education with the aim to widen access and participation to everyone by removing barriers and making learning accessible, abundant, and customisable […]

Free

NTUTORR SDG Drop-In Clinic

Virtual

NTUTORR SDG Clinics are available to support educators who are interested in participating in the Teach-In campaign.

Free

Open Education Week 2023 – “Hybrid and Virtual Learning Spaces”

Virtual

The webinar builds on the work conducted by members of the Education Innovation Working Group of the Coimbra Group on innovative learning spaces. Hybrid and virtual learning spaces are increasingly planned, designed and evaluated for their rich instructional potential, especially in the context of transnational teaching and learning initiatives, but also as an effect of […]

Free

Open Education Week 2023 – “Open Educational Practices as a Catalyst for Innovation”

Virtual

This webinar provides an introduction to the concept of open educational practices (OEPs) as a catalyst for innovation. Participants will gain an understanding of how open educational practices can be used to increase access to quality educational resources, foster collaboration, and encourage innovation. We will discuss the benefits of OEPs, the challenges associated with them, […]

Free

Open Education Week 2023 – “Sustainable Models of Education Post-Covid: The Case of Extended Squared (Exten(DT)2)”

Virtual

In this webinar, we are going to introduce and discuss the project “Extending design thinking with emerging digital technologies” funded by Horizon Europe and Innovate UK. Exten(DT)2 aims to enhance the pedagogical value of design thinking through the use of expressive digital media that are integrated with emerging technologies such as AI and analytics, AR […]

Free

Open Education Week 2023 – “Applying and Translating Learning Design and Analytics Approaches in Your Institution”

Virtual

This interactive workshop delivered by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organisation and Informatics (UZ), School of Medicine, and the Open University UK (OU) will build on several large-scale implementations of learning design and learning analytics, and how you could potentially implement similar approaches in your institution. For example, the OU has been implementing learning […]

Free

NTUTORR SDG Drop-In Clinic

Virtual

NTUTORR SDG Clinics are available to support educators who are interested in participating in the Teach-In campaign.

Free

MoodleMunch: Presentations on Moodle and graduate mentorship and student peer review

Virtual

In this webinar, Dublin City University and Ilia State University, Georgia will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will present on how it uses Moodle to support a graduate mentorship programme involving internal and external users, drawing on the flexible Database activity (DigCompEdu competence 3.3 'Collaborative learning') 2. Ilia State will present on its approach to using […]

Free

Is the Learning Experience Significant? Using Fink’s Taxonomy to (Re)Design and Evaluate Asynchronous Distance Learning Courses

Virtual

Evidence-based instructional strategies provide effective frameworks for designing both in-person and distance learning experiences that effectively achieve course learning outcomes. Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning (FTSL) is an evidence-based instructional strategy originally developed for in-person courses that describes six kinds of learning goals which exist in interwoven domains. When learning experiences promote interaction between different […]

Free

NTUTORR SDG Drop-In Clinic

Virtual

NTUTORR SDG Clinics are available to support educators who are interested in participating in the Teach-In campaign.

Free

AHEAD Annual International Conference – Unity: How Staff and Learner Communities Drive Inclusion in Tertiary Education

The community of professionals working to support equity and inclusion of people with disabilities in further and higher education, and to promote the wider concepts of universal design and UDL, is growing at a rapid pace. Equally, the welcome trend towards increased student partnership in tertiary education is providing more opportunities for learners to contribute […]

Free