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The case studies highlight the excellent teaching and learning practices that are in place across MIC. Each case study provides a detailed description of the approaches implemented, the benefits and challenges of such approaches, and tips for those who wish to implement similar approaches in their own teaching.
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?
National Survey on the Use of Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Insight: Staff Use of Technology-Enhanced Assessment in Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Technology Enhanced Learning: Summary Results Arising from the National Forum 20Qs TEL Survey May 2014
This online event held on 7 May 2020 takes place at a time of unprecedented global challenge in which the importance of confident, supported engagement with digital technology has become clear to all.
Lost in Transition A Report on Enabling Success for Flexible Learners
This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the recent Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.
This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.
This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey.
This infographic contains findings from 29,929 students and staff who teach across the five themes of the recent Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey. For more information on the INDEx Survey, including the full findings report, see here.
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
In this interactive session, some lessons are shared, with participants encouraged to raise questions and comments to exchange practical options for utilising digital solutions to enhance Higher Education.
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 intention of the work is to help academic staff connect and learn from each other, as well as providing insights into what people are doing in digital teaching and learning spaces, and what support in terms of technology, space, and professional development will facilitate excellent and engaged teaching and learning experiences, for staff and students alike.
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.
The Irish Universities Association has launched a three-year project to mainstream digital in teaching, learning and assessment through an ambitious professional development programme. The aim is to move away from individual champions, towards effective engagement of all staff with digital technologies. This includes attempts to diversify the assessment methods utilised across the university.
A publication aimed at academic staff to support the delivery of courses in flexible digital formats.
A resource providing guidance on enhancing team-based learning (TBL) with technology.
A resource highlighting the potential of digital technologies to support Readiness Assurance Tests in team-based learning (TBL).
In the physical classroom, and during team-based learning, low tech options like voting cards, flipchart paper and drawing pins can be very easy to set up and operate for both faculty and students. However they can limit the types of application exercise that are possible to roll out. Here the authors present digital options that can transform the type of application exercises that students can engage with.
In TBL the self-management of the team is a guiding principle and this is very much centred around peer review (Sibley, 2018). We must aim to give the students tools to be able to do this. This resource introduces some of these in a very helpful and concise way.
A facilitator guide developed by lecturers at Athlone Institute of Technology to support an introduction to team-based learning (TBL) workshop. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the basics of Team-Based Learning.
Facilitating Team Based Learning – tools to succeed: pre-class preparation.
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.
The foreword of this resource states the author “has put together a comprehensive collection of resources and tied these to tools and connections to open our thinking. Placed at the heart of this resource, is an exercise on the development of one’s own ‘Personal Philosophy of Teaching’”
The aim of the this workbook is to provide a series of resources; contextual information, methods and approaches in the area of Screencasting.
