Rethinking Assessment – An overview of alternative assessments to end of term exams
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In the words of the authors, “this project sought to address a key issue in third level Teaching and Learning, that of assessment and assessment feedback. Assessment strategies have been shown to have a large impact on shaping how students learn and how they develop key employability skills. Learning from best practice nationally and internationally, and research from staff, students and quality documents, this project has developed a set of recommendations which will enhance practices in, and experiences of, assessments and feedback in TU Dublin”.
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.
A resource developed to support the Irish higher education community in the initial weeks of the move to online/remote teaching and learning in March 2020
This resource presents several best practice tips to ensure successful discussion forums.
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.
DCU has issued a set of guiding principles to inform the development and approval of alternative assessments. The authors unpack these principles here and link them to a set of actions to guide the choice of alternative assessments in the immediate term.
In this short guide, the authors aim to give you an introduction to the area of open education, so that you can engage with open education practices in your teaching and support activities and to Go Open!
Sample Guidelines for Agreeing Netiquette For Engagement in Online Teaching
This OER provides some helpful prompts and suggestions for creating a ‘social presence’ in online environments.
This resource outlines four potential pathways that academics and those supporting teaching and learning at Trinity College Dublin might use as they adapt lectures and large-group teaching for online and hybrid learning environments.
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.
This OER presents the benefits and challenges from both asynchronous and synchronous teaching ; while the OER also presents some practice implications for educators to consider.
