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Chaired by National Forum board member, Dr Leo Casey (Director of Learning & Teaching and Education Programmes at NCI), the second Scholarship Hour opens with National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, Dr Brett Becker(UCD), sharing his initial findings from his research into Teaching and Learning for the Next Era of Digital Innovation.
This presentation is followed by the second stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU).
Chaired by National Forum board member Lewis Purser (Director, Learning & Teaching and Academic Affairs, at the IUA), the first Scholarship Hour opens with National Forum Teaching and Learning Research Fellow, Associate Professor Geraldine O’Neill (UCD), sharing her initial findings from her research into Work-based Assessment: Exploring Barriers and Solutions to an Emerging Assessment Challenge.
This presentation is followed by the first stage of our Gasta Marathon led by Gasta Master, Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU).
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.
This guide is designed to support the development of enabling institutional policies for digital and
open teaching and learning.
This animation provides a short (2-minute) introduction to Open Education, focusing on the concepts of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) for teaching and learning. The animation provides a short introduction to the online resource ‘Using OER and OEP for Teaching and Learning’ available at https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/resource-using-oer-and-oep-for-teaching-and-learning/.
OpenGame project (Promoting Open Education through Gamification) aims to contribute to the uptake of Open Education Resources and Open Education Practices among educators in Higher Education in an innovative and motivating way, through the developing of a gamified and situated learning experience on Open Education. It is a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission. The main objectives of the project are:
1. Foster awareness of HE educators to adopt OEP in their daily teaching, by mainstreaming successful practices.
2. 2 Increase motivation of HE educators towards adopting OEP by providing an attractive and motivating environment.
3. 3 Develop capacity of HE educators to work with open approaches, through an engaging gamified learning experience
All the results of OpenGame Project can be found here: www.opengame-project.eu/results/
The Hibernia College Quality Framework is the sole authoritative source of all Hibernia College quality assurance documents including policies, procedures, resources and strategy documents.
‘AT Hive’ is a web based resource by AHEAD that aims to impart information about the large area of Assistive Technology that supports students students with disabilities. These technologies and tools help people who may have challenges with reading, writing, organisation, motivation as well as much more so explore the wide range of apps and tools.
How to Choose an Open Licence is the second guide in the National Forum OER/OEP Series: Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices. The first guide in the series was the National Forum Open Licensing Toolkit, published in 2019.
Mapping Existing Research Output focused on Higher Education Teaching and Learning in Ireland 1990-2015
Learning Resources and Open Access in Higher Education Institutions in Ireland
Summary Report of Sectoral Dialogue Sessions in Irish Higher Education
A National Forum webinar -Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Licensing- took place on 11 June 2019. The webinar provided an overview of open licensing using Creative Commons licenses and featured the published resource, the National Forum Open Licensing Toolkit (itself an OER).
This webinar will be helpful to staff across the sector who are interested in further exploring and supporting the use of OER and OEP in their own contexts.
