Universal Design for Learning for HE and FET in a blended learning context
2022-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Virtual
This seminar will: provide a basic introduction to the concept of universal design for learning, examine its three key principles, show what UDL looks like in practice, and explore considerations for the applications of UDL in a blended context.

Vevox Pedagogy Series: University educators share their top tips for success
2022-03-03 14:00 - 14:45, 2022-04-07 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.

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.

8 Moodle How To Tips
2022-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
This session will give you 8 really useful how to tips on a range of tasks from communicating with students, transferring activities between courses, creating MS Teams for each group on Moodle and utilising blocks on Moodle to increase your efficiency with tasks to name a few. This session will demonstrate these tasks ahead of a series of short How to videos being released about these and other tasks. This session will open to any questions participants have throughout the session as well as providing time for Q&A at the end of the session for any questions on Moodle How To’s.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: English Language Programme to Support International Learners
2022-03-09 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Project highlights focused on digital capacity and flexible learning delivery from IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT.

Intensive writing retreats - a key support for doctoral student success
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In this seminar, Dr Rachel Hilliard will: Introduce the NUIG intensive writing programme and present a range of students success outcomes from our 5 years of experience; Explain the writing strategies that lead to writing success; Present a number of alternative formats that can be deployed to support doctoral students; Facilitate a discussion of local institutional opportunities for introducing intensive writing camps.

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.

Using Learning Technologies to gather real time student feedback
2022-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
This session will demonstrate how you can utilise learning technologies such as Vevox, Padlet and MS Forms to gather real time student feedback from students. This session will also leave ~20 minutes for Q&A i.e. questions asked throughout the session or at the end of the session.

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

Transforming a website of resources to a learning suite (lessons learned!)
2022-03-16 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Deborah Arnold as she shares the eLene4Life Dynamic toolkit

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.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit
2022-03-23 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: The Autism Friendly Initiative
2022-03-30 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual

Team Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning
2022-03-31 10:00 - 12:00
This short workshop aims to introduce participants to Team-Based Learning (TBL) by experiencing it as a student would. TBL is a student-centred ‘flipped’ learning and teaching strategy designed to engage students through a process of preparation, assessment and application of knowledge. It shifts the focus of classroom time from conveying course concepts by the teacher to the application of course concepts by student learning teams. Participants will learn the principles of TBL through active and collaborative learning and will learn about and be able to question the expert facilitator on his experiences of using TBL over the last 9 years.

Second Annual Workshop on the Role of Computer Science Support Centres
2022-04-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
This workshop will provide a space for those involved in student support, and support centres to discuss their efficacy + usage in Ireland.

Building UNESCO Sustainability Goals into the Law Curriculum
2022-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed in 2015. These 17 goals provide a ‘program of sustainable, universal and ambitious development’ (UNESCO). The SDGs address areas such as poverty, gender equality and climate action. Sustainability has been identified as a key priority for third level institutions in Ireland. This focus encourages us to work towards solving major challenges and, in doing so, we can achieve national and international impact through research, stewardship, outreach, and teaching.

Hello H5P! Day 1 Knowledge Check
2022-04-25 11:00 - 11:40 | Virtual
This session is part of the 1 week Hello H5P! miniseries consisting of 5 independent 40 minute sessions. You will be introduced to one H5P content type that falls into the particular days category. I will show you a variety of exemplars followed by a quick how-to demonstration and conclude with a Q&A.

Hello H5P! Day 2 Structure
2022-04-26 15:00 - 15:40 | Virtual

Hello H5P! Day 3 Presentation
2022-04-27 10:00 - 10:40 | Virtual

Hello H5P! Day 4 Student Generated
2022-04-28 15:00 - 15:40 | Virtual

Hello H5P! Day 5 Meet Lumi
2022-04-29 11:00 - 11:40 | Virtual
This session is part of the 1 week Hello H5P! miniseries consisting of 5 independent 40 minute sessions and it’s the final day of the series so to set you on your way I will introduce you to Lumi – your next level editor. This is a standalone free desktop application which is also now available to all staff through the company portal in ATU Galway.

ATU iNOTE Symposium
2022-05-03 10:00 - 17:00
The iNOTE Symposium 2022 is a showcase of the innovative, agile and impactful outcomes of the iNOTE project. Tuesday 3rd May 2022 will see ATU Donegal-Letterkenny host the iNOTE Symposium 2022, a showcase of the innovative, agile and impactful outcomes of the iNOTE project and their applications to teaching and learning.
Featuring a keynote address from Dr. Alec Couros, Professor, Educational Technology & Media Director, Centre for Teaching & Learning University of Regina, Canada.

ATU DigitalEd Conference 2022: Digital Transformation in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2022-05-04 - 2022-05-06
This year we’ll see the 2nd annual DigitalEd Conference hosted by the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and organised by ATU Teaching and Learning Office (Galway City).
The DigitalEd Conference will take place from May 4th-6th and includes a series of keynote addresses exploring various hot topics such as the impact of change to teaching and learning over recent years due to the pandemic, teaching in a digital age, learning as a partnership, academic integrity, and assessment security. Colleagues who are dedicated to the development of teaching and learning in Irish higher education will deliver workshops, information sessions, and showcases focusing on a variety of teaching and learning themes including:
Technology Enhanced Learning
Online & Flexible Learning Course Design
Microsoft Digital Education Tools
ePortfolios for Learning and Assessment
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Student Supports
Student Engagement

Designing Learning Outcomes for Labs
2022-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Prof Andrew Garrard & Dr Adam Funnell will outline their experiences of refocusing the labs within the University of Sheffield.

Re-Connect - An Intervention with Students on their Digital Habits
2022-05-05 15:00 - 17:00
This session will include: Identification of the key factors that influence students’ use of the internet both positive and negativeInvestigation into the impact of the internet on the student experience of University and the impact on their educational experience and wellbeing
To evaluate the effectiveness of the application of behaviour change principles on students’ internet behaviours and potentially on their educational experience and wellbeing as a result
Evaluation of the merits and limitations of one intervention
