Digital Ed

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Academic Writing Badge
2021-12-08 13:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Virtual
Project highlights focused on digital capacity and flexible learning delivery from IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT.

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.

Grades on Moodle - Post Assessment Tips and Guidelines
2021-12-13 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
This session focuses on the post assessment stage of delivery of a module whether this be a continuous assessment or an end of semester assessment. This will discuss how grades are displayed, how to generate reports for a quiz activity,an assignment activity and how to generate reports for the overall module. This session will also cover the override grading function on Moodle and discuss how this may be useful as part of your teaching practice.

ePortfolio Implementation: The Impact for Students, from Reflection to Ownership
2021-12-14 11:30 - 13:00
Learning Objectives: Understand how students are using ePortfolios in higher education; Recognise the issues that students experience when using ePortfolios and evaluate the importance of student and staff support structures; Participants will learn about the use for ePortfolio implementation across different disciplines; Explore assessment strategies and the collaborative approach used with ePortfolios; Explore the trends with regards to the reflection, ownership, and portable information technology skills among students

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

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

Re-imagining Assessment Workshop: Creating Feedback Opportunities within the Curriculum - Leveraging time to maximise the impact, A Masterclass with Dr Edd Pitt
2021-12-16 13:30 - 15:00 | Virtual
In this active workshop, delegates will work through a series of tasks designed to get them to interrogate their own assessment and feedback practice. In particular, we will focus upon how we can create opportunities within the ‘contact time’ we have with students to afford assessment and feedback to be seen as part of the fabric and culture of the learning experience. The workshop seeks to help practitioners identify where their curricula might have the potential to afford multiple opportunities for both evaluative and consequential feedback. Crucially the workshop will focus upon harnessing the power of the classroom that delegates are engaged in within their day-to-day practice to mitigate the need for wholescale changes and extra workload. LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE.

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

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Vevox Student Engagement
2022-01-12 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

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!

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Audits
2022-01-19 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

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.

Deep diving into UDL: Swimming the Assistive Technology (AT) Waters
2022-01-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In the session, we will explore AT tools in Office 365 and how they can have a place in the education experience. Let’s think strategically as we explore these technologies as they address students’ needs and how we can harness these technologies for the productivity and inclusion of students.

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.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches to Support Wellbeing
2022-01-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
A keynote presentation on the topic of ‘pedagogy of care’ will be delivered by Maha Bali from the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Contributions will also be made by Dean O’Reilly, DCU Students’ Union, Caroline Mahon, DCU Healthy and Prof. Alan Smeaton, DCU School of Computing. The seminar will be interactive, with opportunities for discussion, questions and answers, reflections and to plan how to embed wellbeing in one’s own context through teaching, learning and assessment approaches.

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.

MoodleMunch
2022-02-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In this webinar, Dublin City University and City of Dublin Education & Training Board will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will present on the experiences of using Moodle Board activity to foster collaborative learning (DigCompEdu competence 3.3 ‘Collaborative learning’) 2. CDETB will present on reimagining Moodle; improving quality, productivity, and morale among their staff (DigCompEdu Area 1 ‘Professional engagement’)

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

Vevox Pedagogy Series: University educators share their top tips for success
2022-02-02 14:00 - 14:45 | Virtual
Wanting to learn how you can make your classes more engaging? Want to hear top tips, methods and success stories from educators at UK universities as to how they’re overcoming the challenges of hybrid learning? Then join our monthly webinars where our guest speakers will be sharing their advice and showing you ways to boost student interaction to increase active learning and student success.

ePortfolio: Enhancing Student Engagement through Reflective Writing
2022-02-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Learning ObjectivesIdentify the challenges faced by students when they engage with ePortfolio writing; Examine ways to support students in writing effective reflections on their learning and experience; Critically assess some ‘case study’ examples of international best practice associated with writing reflectively for ePortfolio; Reflect on how these successes and challenges might transfer to an Irish higher education context, and discuss ways to enhance student engagement through reflective writing

Re-imagining Assessment: Development of Rubrics for Assessment, A Masterclass with Linda Suskie (USA)
2022-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
“A few years ago, I conducted a literature review on rubric development for a book chapter I’d been asked to write. I learned so much that I’ve since done some conference presentations titled “Everything I Thought I Knew About Rubrics Was Wrong!” Well, that’s not quite true, but lightbulbs came on for me regarding what rubrics are, what makes a rubric valid, how to craft an effective rubric, and how to create a great assignment to be assessed by the rubric. Join me and see how many lightbulbs come on for you!”

Introduction to Vevox
2022-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
This session will showcase the features of Vevox and give you ideas of how it can be integrated into your teaching practices.
