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Immersive Learning at ATU: Pilots, Practice and Possibilities

Exploring how virtual, augmented and immersive technologies can support teaching, collaboration and experiential learning across ATU. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and interactive 360° environments…

Gen AI in Higher Education – Overview of the N-TUTORR funded National GenAI:N3 Project

Responding to the challenges presented by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), this project involved the creation of a GenAI national network from across the Irish TU sector in September 2024 with…

Cracking the Code: Inside ATU’s Assessment Hackathon: Create academically integral, authentic, and sustainable assessment for all in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Where Innovation Meets Education Picture a room buzzing with energy, where educators and students came together to shake up traditional assessment methods. That was the ATU Assessment Hackathon—a fast-paced, hands-on…

Why should I pay attention to ATU’s DigitalEd Conferences?

With all the online and hybrid learning embedded into our busy schedules these days, it can be overwhelming and difficult to determine which teaching and learning events are most beneficial…

Sustainathon: Sustainable Consumption on Our Campus

The Sustainable Consumption on Our Campus. For Students by Students was a learning intervention which took place in February 2023 with the support of NTUTORR and SATLE funding. The project…

Learning Design in the time of Covid-19

This blog post is a summary of my recent journal article “Learning Design in the Time of COVID-19: The Digital Learning Design Unit Story”. Learning design is a methodical approach…

What is eHealth and how can it be developed?

The definition of eHealth as outlined by the Health Service Executive, Ireland, is as follows: “eHealth is a term to describe a set of digitising technologies in the health domain….

ATU Re-imagining Assessment & Feedback for Student Success Symposium

The ATU Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback Project Symposium was hosted on June 2nd, 2022, on site at ATU Galway City. There was fantastic engagement from ATU colleagues with up to…

Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback for Student Success

The Re-imagining Assessment and Feedback for Student Success project is a collaboration between Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Teaching and Learning Offices. The study is supported by the National Forum for…

Back in the CLASSROOM – continuing the use of technology to enhance students learning and engagement.

Most higher level educators are now back in the classroom teaching in a face-to-face learning environment. However, it is important that educators continue to nurture and grow the new technical…

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