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…
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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?
Some Key European and National Teaching and Learning Policy and Practice Documents
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.
A short video outlining approaches to teaching live classes online
A short video explaining some of the differences between online vs in-class.
A short video explaining how you can support online students.
Facilitating discussion forums as part of online teaching.
Getting started with teaching online transcript
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.
An EDTL project webinar where the project team reflect on the results from the National Forum’s overall INDEx survey results and report.
A reflection on the impact of COVID-19 on teaching online, this webinar also presents aspects of the EDTL project to support this transition.
What just happened?, Reflections on how Higher Education responded to the COVID 19 crisis
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 resource presents several best practice tips to ensure successful discussion forums.
Best pratice tips for Supporting Online Students through engagement and understanding
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.