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DigitalEd.ie is a Digital Teaching and Learning education platform, providing access to the digital learning pathways and a suite of resources available to all staff. The site provides a gateway to help CUA staff build digital capabilities and pedagogic expertise, in order to design, deliver and support flexible and online learning programmes.
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.
This resource is intended to prompt reflection on the breadth of potential assessment activity that can be used across the disciplines. Consider how your assessment strategy enables students to demonstrate their achievement of one or more learning outcomes and whether assessment activity is adequately aligned with workload.
Rethinking Assessment – An overview of alternative assessments to end of term exams
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.
