Digital Ed

Vevox Pedagogy Series: University educators share their top tips for success
2022-04-07 14:00 - 14:45, 2022-03-03 14:00 - 14:45 (Europe/Dublin) | 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: The Autism Friendly Initiative
2022-03-30 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Project highlights focused on digital capacity and flexible learning delivery from IT Sligo, LYIT and GMIT.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Universal Design for Learning for HE and FET in a blended learning context
2022-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 | 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.

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

VIDEO: A tool for teaching and assessment
2022-03-02 10:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
This online conference brings together university teachers from a wide range of disciplines to share their experiences of using video in their teaching and assessment. Speakers come from dentistry, education, social science, food science, engineering, and nutrition. Some used video in response to the requirement to go off campus during the pandemic while others had already been using video long before that. If you are interested in innovative techniques in teaching or would just like to hear how others have used video, this conference is for you.

MoodleMunch
2022-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In this webinar, Dublin City University and another institution will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will present on its range of approaches, from simple to comprehensive, to support universal design and inclusion with Moodle (DigCompEdu competence 5.1 ‘Accessibility and inclusion’) 2. Details of second presentation to follow

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

Part 3 – The Challenge of Academic Naivety/Impoverishment, National and International
2022-02-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
HAQEF is hosting a series of online seminars with support from the National Forum’s seminar series 21/22 funding. These seminars will explore academic integrity through a framework of understanding, preventing, and empowering learners to prevent unintentional academic impropriety.The four seminars will include presentations and discussions by learners and representatives from a number of HECA Colleges, around reframing academic integrity perspectives, responding to unintentional academic impropriety, and the challenges of academic impoverishment from an international learning environment.

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.

Getting Started with NitroPro
2022-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
NitroPro is the new GMIT tool for editing, customising, creating, signing and securing PDF files. This session will introduce NitroPro and help you do more with PDFs.

Student online group experience supported through Slack: reflections on how to approach and research this area
2022-02-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
This study looked at a particular types of group activity ‘Peer-led group learning’ based on ‘small groups of students meeting regularly with a peer – one who has additional expertise in the subject matter – to work on problems collaboratively’. The study looked at the use of Slack to support this activity. This presentation will discuss:
how the project came about,
defining the scope
selecting the right methods
and the journal towards final publication.

In the Spotlight Webinar Series: SilverCloud, Being Well Living Well & the MRes Research
2022-02-16 13:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
