Your Brainpower is a free, online, self-paced course, focusing on harnessing the power and potential of adolescent [age 10 – 24 years] brain and behaviour for enhanced learning, wellbeing, and student success in higher education.
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Infographic promoting Moodle’s analytics graphs, which come packaged in a single block and offer a host of statistics and figures on various aspects of students’ Moodle usage
Infographic promoting Moodle’s activity completion feature, which allows the lecturer to assign completion criteria to specific activities and resources within Moodle
Infographic providing information on Moodle’s attendance feature, which allows lecturers to take attendance in Moodle and for individual students to see their own attendance record
Infographic outlining Moodle’s heatmap feature, which offers a colour-coded representation of user activity within a module
This seminar presented an overview of current policy, research and practice relating to student wellbeing in higher education and how the curriculum can be leveraged to enhance wellbeing. It showcased a range of innovative curricular wellbeing initiatives in UCC and MTU.
Drawing on this knowledge, and expertise in occupational science/therapy, psychology and neuroscience, the ‘DOTS – Developmental Opportunities for Transitions in Students’ seminar sought to inform stakeholders of the biobehavioural transitions that influence undergraduate wellbeing and academic achievement in the current socio-cultural climate.
Chair of the National Forum, Lynn Ramsey officially opens VIT&L Week. The keynote speaker is Prof Frank Coton (Senior Vice Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at University of Glasgow and international advisor to the Board of the National Forum. Prof Coton shares his thoughts on Why Valuing Teaching and Learning is VITAL.
This session leads into VIT&L Week’s first Scholarship Hour.
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?
The Seven Cs for Embedding Student Success: A Toolkit for Higher Education Institutions (Seven Cs Toolkit) has been developed as a resource for higher education institutions (HEIs).