ATU’s DigitalEd Conference 2023

The 3rd annual DigitalEd Conference was hosted by the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and organised by the ATU N-TUTORR Project Team and ATU Teaching & Learning Centre.

ATU’s DigitalEd Conference took place on May 17th and included a series of sessions and showcases from all N-TUTORR partners, including the TU’s – ATU, MTU, SETU, TUS, TU Dublin and the IoT’s – DKIT and IADT. The sessions focussed on a variety of teaching and learning themes and include:

Digital Transformation in Teaching & Learning
Students as Partners in Teaching & Learning
Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

N-TUTORR is a unique project for Ireland’s technological university sector, combining new technological universities and institutes of technology, who have formed a partnership to develop and deliver on the National Technological University Transformation for Recovery and Resilience programme. This programme, which is EU funded and overseen by the HEA and THEA, proposes to utilise the national scale and scope of the sector to deliver a best-practice suite of initiatives and opportunities for the learner, for staff development and supported by necessary enabling technologies.

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Keynote Speakers

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TU Transformation for Recovery and Resilience in Learning, Teaching and Assessment

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Digital Transformation in Teaching & Learning sessions

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Students as Partners in Teaching & Learning sessions

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Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sessions

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Academic Integrity & Artificial Intelligence sessions

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Conference Slide Decks

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Keynote Speakers

How do we Orientate ourselves in a Time of Digital and Teaching Transformation? (Neil Mosley, Educational Consultant & Designer)

Shifting to Sustainability: New digital futures, Exploring the sustainability of learning design (Prof Gilly Salmon, CEO and Principal Consultant, Education Alchemists Ltd.)

TU Transformation for Recovery and Resilience in Learning, Teaching and Assessment

TU Transformation for Recovery and Resilience in Learning, Teaching and Assessment (Dr Carina Ginty, N-TUTORR Institutional Lead, ATU)

Digital Transformation in Teaching & Learning sessions

Student Experiences of ePortfolios within an Irish University (Dr Louise Nagle, N-TUTORR Institutional Lead & Dr Tom Farrelly, Social Science Lecturer & Educational Developer, MTU)

Disciplinary Excellence in Learning and Teaching in ATU Galway First Year Chemistry Labs (Dr Aisling Crowley & Dr Cormac Quigley, Lecturers in Dept of Biopharmaceutical & Medical Science, ATU)

Using Digital Images in Presentation Technologies to teach Threshold Concepts in the Online and Face-to-Face Classrooms (Cliona Flood, Lecturer in Psychology, IADT)

Transforming Practical Teaching in the Digital Age: An overview and some findings from the multi-institutional Virtual Labs project (Dr Sinead Loughran, Lecturer in the Dept of Life & Health Sciences | Programme Director for BSc (Hons) in Biopharmaceutical Science & Dr Bridget Kelly, Lecturer of Microbiology & Immunology, DkIT)

Hybrid French Culture and Language-Integrated Content for Digital Transformation at the ATU (Dr Sarah Berthaud, N-TUTORR Fellow | Lecturer in French & Jean-Noël Vogrig, Transmedia Producer, Canopé)

Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning Sessions

Exploring AI in the Classroom: A practical approach (Dr Hazel Farrell, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Music, SETU)

Stepping Outside the Box: The impact of experiential learning beyond the lecture hall (Dr Gabriela Gliga & Mary McCormack, N-TUTORR Fellows | Lecturers in Marketing, ATU) – to follow

Enabling Enhanced Student Partnership through Online Training of University Policy and Practice: TU Dublin’s Our Student Voice Project (Dr Ciaran O’Leary, Head of Learning Development | Faculty of Computing, Digital and Data & Brian Jordan, SU President, TU Dublin)

“Moving Parts”: The development of a student-led animation campaign on active consent, sexual violence and harassment, and bystander intervention (Rachel Skelly, Consent Officer, IADT)

Navigating the Liminal Space: A cause for identity consolidation or disruption? Results of a study exploring the impact of clinical placement on student nurses (Dr Louise Nagle, N-TUTORR Institutional Lead, MTU)

Academic Integrity & Artificial Intelligence Sessions

Supporting a Community Approach to Academic Integrity with Digital Badges (Dr Ellen McCabe, N-TUTORR Teaching & Learning Coordinator, ATU)

Understanding the Value and Practice of Academic Integrity in Professional Nursing and Midwifery Undergraduate Programmes (Ann Everitt-Reynolds & Joe Treacy, Lecturers in Dept of Nursing, Midwifery & Early Years, DkIT)

Leveraging AI and NLP to Evaluate Sustainability in the Curriculum (Dr Cormac MacMahon, Senior Manager of Sustainability, Education & Innovation, TU Dublin)

Academic Integrity & Academic Intelligence: Steadying the ship in uncertain waters (Dr Geraldine McDermott, Senior Lecturer | Educational Developer, TUS)

Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Sessions

Empowering Higher Education Staff to lead on Education for Sustainability (Dr Mark Kelly, Head of Centre for Sustainability, Dr John Scahill, N-TUTORR Academic Developer & Dr Sean Daffy, Learning Technologist, ATU)

Applying the Sustainable Goals in the Classroom (Gráinne Carroll, Assistant Lecturer in Computing, Design & UX/HCI, IADT)

Teaching and Learning Contextualised Design Methodologies for Technological Sustainability and Resilience Solutions (Dr Sivakumar “Ganesh” Ramachandran, Engineering Programmes Co-ordinator, IADT)

Connecting Software & Electronic Engineers with Nature (Michelle Lynch, Lecturer in Machine Learning w/Python, DSP, Modern C++, ATU)

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