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Since March 2020 higher education has experienced one of the most disruptive phases in its recent history. In a sector typified by considered, researched and incremental change, overnight everyone began emergency remote teaching, learning and assessing. The dramatic shift resulted in positives and negatives, and posed a series of questions for students, staff and other stakeholders. Though still living through the pandemic, in March 2021 fifteen partners from a range of stakeholders across the sector agreed to work together to answer one shared persistent and urgent question: In the context of Covid-19, what have we learnt and what does it mean for the future of teaching and learning in Irish higher education?

Social Presence

A resource containing a suite of approaches to achieve social presence with online teaching. Each approach is aimed at establishing a sense of a learning community, enabling meaningful and in-depth interactions where learning experiences can be shared.

Social Presence

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What just happened?

What just happened?, Reflections on how Higher Education responded to the COVID 19 crisis

What just happened?

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EDTL Vimeo Webinar Channel

The IUA’s EDTL project have developed a popular and engaging webinar series, with each video hosted on their vimeo channel. Go to the channel now to view content that will certainly be of interest to you.

Supporting Students

Best pratice tips for Supporting Online Students through engagement and understanding

Supporting Students

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Online Class and Collaborative Activities

This helpful resource presents some tools that you can use for online classroom and collaborative activities. Interactive online classes are more beneficial, and fun, to both the educator and the student. Using online collaborative activities within the classroom can encourage interaction. This guide presents some best practice tips.

Preparing for Live Online Teaching with Collaborate Ultra

This OER provides an overview of Collaborate ultra for live online teaching. Collaborate Ultra allows you to share audio, video, files and applications, use a virtual whiteboard and run polls. There is also a ‘breakout room’ feature which you can use to support small group interaction within your classes.