Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education: A Roadmap for Enhancement in a Digital World 2015-2017

Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education: A Roadmap for Enhancement in a Digital World 2015-2017

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National Forum

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Teaching & Learning

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Accessibility & Inclusion, Digital Learning, National Forum Publications, T&L Practice

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Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education: A Roadmap for Enhancement in a Digital World 2015-2017

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One of the key goals of the National Forum is, via wide consultation, to create a digital roadmap to help to guide institutions and organisations in the development of local and national digital strategies and to ensure alignment, coherence and a sense of common endeavour at a sectoral level.

This document is designed to inform and guide senior managers, heads of department, schools or faculties and leaders within the higher education sector. It focuses also on systems-level higher education organisations, as well as representative organisations within the sector which together must take the lead in building digital capacity to enhance teaching and learning across the sector. The roadmap identifies the key priorities for change and provides an informed framework for supporting organisations in addressing these
priorities.

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National Forum (09/08/2015). Teaching and learning in irish higher education: a roadmap for enhancement in a digital world 2015-2017. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/teaching-and-learning-in-irish-higher-education-a-roadmap-for-enhancement-in-a-digital-world-2015-2017/

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Against this rapidly evolving backdrop, we in the Centre for Academic Practice (Trinity College Dublin) found ourselves faced with new challenges. How could we best support our educators to respond to the challenges of GenAI? How might we influence and support strategic initiatives and policy development regarding GenAI for teaching, learning and assessment at the institutional level? Conscious that our colleagues across the sector were facing similar challenges, we decided to initiate a cross-institutional collaboration with teaching and learning leaders from across the sector, where we could tackle this together!

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