The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is developing a National Professional Recognition Framework for Teaching and Learning to support the recognition of teaching excellence across the sector. The framework builds on the Professional Development Framework (2016) and aims to provide clear, nationally agreed benchmarks for effective teaching practice. It will help inform career development, support institutional processes, and promote a shared understanding of teaching quality in Irish higher education.
This Forum Insight summarises the background and preliminary findings from the research undertaken by Brett Becker of University College Dublin as part of his National Forum Teaching and Learning Research…
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?
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.
During this session, Gearóid asks Lawrie questions about the emergent findings and trends he’s seen during the pandemic, and what he hopes might happen next.
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.
In this video, Niall presents how he has used an educational mobile app for taking attendance and the impact this has had on the engagement of his students as a result.
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.
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.
A detailed overview and support around four key elements of teaching online: Social presence; facilitating discussion, supporting students, live teaching online.
