Digital Ed

The Impact of Unconscious Bias - a Workshop for Students
2021-11-11 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Virtual
The workshop would be very beneficial for apprentices and students who go on work placement or indeed all student groups as it is such an important topic for them to be aware of. It is open to any student groups across the CUA/St. Angela’s College. The workshop will also be recorded should any lecturers wish to distribute it or use it again for their class groups.

This workshop has been organised with the support of CELT and is being funded by the National Forum for VIT&L (valuing Ireland’s teaching and learning) week.

The impact of unconscious bias?
Unconscious biases impact all of us and form part of how we think. Most people are not fully aware of how bias may affect how they perceive and think about other people. Bias will affect perception, attitudes and behaviour towards others and some of this behaviour can be quite subtle. The aim of this workshop will be to allow students to understand how their brain works in terms of how they make decisions and think about other people. They will understand how bias occurs in all of us and recognise the impact of any associated behaviours. They will be able to name and recognise common biases and hopefully get some a-ha moments in recognising their own unconscious biases or unseen barriers to inclusive cultures and how we interact with others.
This workshop will explore what inclusivity look like and how to mitigate some of the behaviours and blockers to being inclusive, and to manage the impact of unconscious biases.
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SoB Workshop: Implementing the Programmatic Review Transformation Framework (PRTF) - Assessment, Employability & Sustainability
2021-11-12 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
GMIT School of Business staff are invited to learn how to embed the three themes into their programme and module review process.

SoB Workshop: Exploring a Learning Design Process for any of module you teach & UDL considerations.
2021-11-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
GMIT School of Business Workshop

VIT&L Event: The Scholarship Hour and Gasta Marathon (Recurring Daily)
2021-11-12 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Running daily from 12:30-13:30 as a webinar, the Scholarship Hour will provide an opportunity to share teaching and learning scholarship, enhancement innovations, findings and insights, and prompt further conversations among those who teach and learn.
For full schedule details visit https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/vital/programme/

SoB Workshop: Writing Learning Outcomes
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
GMIT School of Business staff are invited to attend this session which will provide an introduction to writing learning outcomes for modules. We will also discuss the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning. A number of design aids will be shared to support module descriptor enhancements.

SoB Workshop: Assessment Transformation - Sharing Experiences - What Works & Why?
2021-11-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual

Implementing the Programmatic Review Transformation Framework - Assessment, Employability & Sustainability
2021-11-16 09:00 - 10:30, 2021-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
GMIT Academic Staff are invited to learn about training and design supports that are available for the Programmatic Review Process – Sustainability, Time, Rubrics, SDGs, innovative assessments, etc.

Reimagining a Climate Action University in 2030 (recurring event)
2021-11-16 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Mark Kelly (Head of Centre for Sustainability, GMIT), Declan Feeney (IT Sligo) and Fiona Britton (Sustainability Officer, IT Sligo) who will moderate a series of breakout sessions for staff and students to explore the opportunities inherent within the Climate Action University concept. The workshops on the 11th and 16th are the same workshop to provide two opportunities for staff and students to engage in the discussion. Event Open to GMIT, IT Sligo and LKIT

More than MCQs! Create a robust quiz in Moodle
2021-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
This session shows you how to use random questions, data sets, and optional sections to make your Moodle quiz a robust assessment.

IUA Future of Ireland Webinar: Grand Challenges for Irish Research
2021-11-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Given the critical role research will play in the national recovery and rebuilding Ireland’s future, and in driving forward transformation in our socio-economic systems across Europe, the Nov 17th Future of Ireland event will focus on how research can benefit society as a whole. As you know, Ireland, and our partners across Europe, face significant socio-economic challenges as we emerge from the current crisis and face more uncertain times internationally. We are in a whole new world where knowledge and expertise will shape our place on the international stage and help prepare us for the future.
Guest speaker is Dr John Bell, Director of Healthy Planet at the DG for Research & Innovation at the European Commission.
Introduction by Prof CiaránÓ hÓgartaigh, Chair of IUA and President of NUI Galway.

Recognising past present & future challenges & opportunities of blended Teaching & Learning
2021-11-18 14:30 - 16:00 | Virtual
This in-person and online hybrid session will provide an opportunity for us all to reflect on the challenges and opportunities we have/continue to face during a global pandemic in relation to Teaching & Learning.
’We are in the midst of a technological era that is entirely disruptive. The pace at which technology, society and world economies are evolving has never been faster. We know that the future for our students, graduates and staff will be very different to that of today. So too, higher education must evolve and advance, to support our people and communities, to be truly relevant, and to deliver real impact” – David Fitzpatrick, TU (Technological University) Dublin President
Guest Speakers:
We will explore the future of blended/hybrid learning with our key speaker Dr. Tony Bates with a pre-recorded presentation.
We will be welcomed via live stream with Donald Clark, EdTech entrepreneur and evangelist for the use of technology in learning. Donald will discuss challenges (political, economic, pedagogic and cultural) faced by Higher Education and the need for technology and change. He will also explore innovations in technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how we can exploit these technologies to transform our T&L practices.
Panel Discussion:
A panel of teaching and learning experts will reflect on our speaker’s presentations and discuss the following areas:
We will discuss the impact the global pandemic has had on teaching and learning for all our students and staff within Technological University Dublin.
We will explore the challenges both academics and students face/have faced and how we have worked together to address these issues with people, processes, and technologies.
During this section of the session, we will be using interactive polling and audience participation via Vevox Technology.

Transform EDU Week Event 1 – Developing a Transformative Education Framework for Higher Education
2021-11-22 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Transform-EDU aims to place transformative learning centre-stage in higher education. The project has focused on innovative approaches to learning where elements of structured programmes, co and extra-curricular events are purposefully integrated to create the rich learning environments that are required to foster transformative learning.
We present a framework that recognises that, whilst learning outcomes are mostly achievable in structured discipline-specific academic curricula, 21st Century Graduate profiles demanded by employers are dynamic, requiring agile learning environments to produce graduates who meet skills demanded by enterprise.
We highlight TU Dublin’s Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) as a means of capturing and authenticating transformative learning that takes place, under the following competencies: civil knowledge and skills, global culture competence, health and wellbeing development, leadership, teamwork, research and innovation competence building. We highlight the student and staff voice during our event. We outline examples of co-curricular events that support exposure, integration and transformation.

Transform EDU Week Event 2 – Education for Citizenship and Community Engagement
2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Our key note presentation will focus on the role of Higher Education in developing society though engagement with civic society (third sector). A key function of Technological Universities is to serve the community and public interest by (i) developing strong social and cultural links with the community in the region in which its campuses are located, and (ii) fostering effective relationships with organisations involved in regional development – contributing to economic, cultural, social and scientific development of the State. This webinar will focus on how universities can contribute to inclusive, sustainable and empowered communities by educating young people to participate actively in civil society.
We will also provide an overview of a new Active Citizenship module that aims to educate students in key concepts related to citizenship; encourage students to get actively involved in their communities to achieve personal development; and to further civic goals. The module is influenced by thought-leaders, including Raghuram Rajan, author of the Third Pillar, The Revival of Community in a Polarised World, Paul Collier John Kay, authors of Greed is Dead: Politics after Individualism
The Transform EDU team will also provide an overview of findings from case-study research on civic engagement and community development in South Dublin.

Transform EDU Week Event 3 – Mental Wellbeing and Emotional Skills Development for the Workplace
2021-11-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Mental health and emotional intelligence are integral to graduate employability and career success.
In this webinar, we highlight the importance of social and emotional competencies and showcase Transform EDU’s co-curricular approaches to their development in a series of workshops for final year students. The tailored workshops in Socio-Emotional Skills for Work (SES4Work) aimed at fostering graduate attributes associated with employability and career success in specific disciplines.
We hear from a panel of students, mental health advocates, employers, and Transform EDU researchers.

Transform EDU Week Event 4: Contract Cheating – Valuing Teaching, Learning and Education
2021-11-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Contract cheating represents a challenge to the academic integrity of the educational system. Although one single solution to contract cheating does not exist, the importance of an educative approach is recognised to ensure that students benefit from the learning opportunities offered to them.
This lead presentation for the Transform-EDU Project held during Valuing Ireland’s Teaching & Learning Week will review the characteristics of contract cheating, including how educators can recognise breaches. The presentation will also consider opportunities available for educators to mitigate the risks of students succumbing to contract cheating, including how this topic can be taught to students and how preventative measures can be put into place. Time will be available for questions and discussion.

Transform EDU Week Event 5: Developing Sustainability Literate Graduates – Adapting the UN Sulitest to Classroom and Aligning the Curriculum to the SDGs
2021-11-26 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Universities have been mandated under SDG 4.7.1 to develop sustainability literature graduates. By sustainability literacy, we refer to the knowledge, skills, and mindsets that help compel an individual to become deeply committed to building a sustainable future (Décamps, 2017).
In this webinar we explore the transformative nature of education for sustainability and underpinning reflective pedagogy. We outline a whole-of-university approach to ensuring that it is embedded across the curricula.
We highlight approaches to measurement and evaluation and showcase the use of the UN’s sustainability literacy test or SULITEST www.sulitest.org with reflective practice in contextualising sustainability literacy across different disciplines.

Re-imagining Assessment: Assessing Experiential Learning, A Masterclass with Professor Rick Roe
2021-11-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
This 2-hour online session will provide an introduction to experiential learning methodology and its assessment across the full range of university courses from classroom instruction, practicum projects and clinical educational settings. The session will itself be conducted with interactive, participatory methods and will provide opportunities for participants to customise the principles to their own teaching approaches and interests. It will begin with a focus on the learning opportunities and objectives of experiential learning.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Accessibility Tools
2021-12-01 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Project highlights focused on digital capacity and flexible learning delivery from IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT.

Team Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning
2021-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | 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

e-Proctoring in Theory and Practice: A review
2021-12-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual
Remote e-proctoring was an established practice in some specific contexts prior to the COVID pandemic; however, with the onset of the pandemic and the ensuing need to deliver alternative and online assessment procedures, e-proctoring has become a very topical issue and has been discussed, trialled and implemented widely both nationally and internationally. In this webinar, Professor Paul Giller will present some of the findings from his report, commissioned by QQI and endorsed by the National Academic Integrity Network, titled ‘E-proctoring in theory and practice: a review’. Professor Giller’s report, reviewing the literature, identifying the various approaches taken, highlighting the advantages and constraints inherent in e-proctoring, discussing the issues that arise and offering some recommendations for its use may act as a welcome advisory resource for practitioners, policy makers, education developers and others in educational institutions in Ireland. Professor Giller also describes both some successful and less successful case studies and analyses some possible reasons for these outcomes.

Part 2 – Responding to Unintentional Academic Impropriety: Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches
2021-12-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Learning Objectives: Empower delegates to understand the difference between unintentional and intentional academic impropriety and some of the newer and more complex challenges to academic integrity in the 21st century such as essay mills and fake news; Provide delegates with an overview of institutional initiatives and pedagogical approaches to preventing unintentional academic impropriety; Provide delegates with an understanding of how staff across academic institutions can work in partnership with students to prevent unintentional academic impropriety; Explore how educating students about unintentional academic impropriety can inform student transition, teaching and learning, student success and information literacy initiatives; Explore how universal design initiatives can promote student engagement with academic integrity policies

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.

Promoting Inclusivity through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
2021-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Learning Objectives: Identify the fundamental principles of universal design for learning (UDL); Explore the value of UDL in blended learning programmes in the post-COVID classroom; Consider the potential of UDL as a framework to promote inclusivity in all areas of campus life; Explore the contribution of the UDL framework to other areas, such as anti-racist pedagogy

Learning Analytics – A Critical Issue in Higher Education
2021-12-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Learning Objectives: To critically explore and discuss learning analytics approaches and experiences; To raise awareness of existing useful Irish and international learning analytics resources and case studies

MoodleMunch
2021-12-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In this webinar, Dublin City University and Solent University will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will present on how it aligns learning design processes and Moodle to support module development and student engagement (DigCompEdu competence 3.1 ‘Teaching’) 2. Solent University will present on its use of assessment plugins to streamline and enhance assessment and feedback processes (DigCompEdu competence 4.1 ‘Analysing evidence’)

Joining the (disjointed) Dots: Student Success in Language Learning in Ireland
2021-12-08 11:00 - 12:30
Learning Objectives: To foster an open, cross-sectoral dialogue about language learning; To define student success in foreign language teaching and learning in each sector; To consider how HE can support a path towards future cross-sectoral engagement in the area of foreign language learning

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Academic Writing Badge
2021-12-08 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

Introducing the Professional Services Digital Badge & the Academic Digital Badge by DigitalEd
2021-12-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
There are two digital education learning pathways, DigitalEd Academic and DigitalEd Professional Services, that are now available for all CUA-ATU staff to access. The online courses available offer an independent learning pathway for users to explore at their own pace. The range of resources presented covers the knowledge and skills to enable users to teach online, blend courses, design for online learning, develop digital skills, and learn about supporting flexible learners effectively. Opportunities to earn digital badges are presented as the user progresses with their independent learning. Learn more about the badges at:

Developing RPL Communities of Practice: Introducing the National RPL in Higher Education Project
2021-12-10 14:30 - 15:30 | Virtual
Hosted on behalf of the RPL Practitioner Network by Nora Trench Bowles of the IUA, this webinar will introduce a new Higher Education Initiative under the HCI. The key presenter for the event is Grace Edge. Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a passion for something that they do and who learn how to do it better by interacting regularly. In this session, a new Community of Practice will be introduced: the National RPL in Higher Education Project, funded through the Human Capital Initiative Pillar 3 (Agility & Innovation). Key partners in this community include nineteen publicly funded higher education institutions. Attendees will hear from a range of speakers, who will share their experiences and learnings from the project to date. Speakers look forward to learning from the RPL Practitioner Network and to gleaning practical advice from participants regarding the development of RPL-friendly organisations.
