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Events

As part of the DigitalEd development initiatives for the ATU, a monthly webinar and workshop series is coordinated by the ATU Teaching and Learning Centre (Galway-Mayo). Check out upcoming events below.

Digital West 2022 – Cybersecurity & Trust

Virtual

Speaker Lineup: Andrea Manning CEO & Founder CyberPie - GDPR & CyberSecurity Speciailist. Member of ITAG Cyber Forum and Cyber Ireland. LEO Mentor & International Speaker Mathieu Gorge, CEO at VigiTrust - Chairman of the VigiTrust Global Advisory Board - Featured ForbesBooks Author Dr. Seamus Dowling, programme chair and lecturer in cybersecurity at GMIT. Co-founder, […]

Active Learning Strategies – A Travel and Tourism Programme Perspective

Virtual

The devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the national and international travel and tourism industries y have been well documented to date (WTO, 2021; OECD, 2021; Fáilte Ireland, 2021; ITIC, 2021Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might […]

Free

Challenges for Learning Design & Teaching Practice Beyond the Pandemic

Virtual

The earlier embedding of student-centred approaches to learning and teaching, digital innovation, co-creation and institutional capacity building were key to the transition to emergency remote teaching across the global HE sector in March 2020. Many institutions wedded to traditional teaching methods encountered barriers as they moved from campus-based provision to online learning at scale and […]

Free

Using Creative Methodologies to Explore Issues in Educational Practice

Virtual

This online seminar offers theoretical and methodological insights on a range of creative and pedagogic approaches to data gathering and analysis. It also focuses on issues of interpretation and its role in narrative research through offering alternative forms of ‘giving voice'. It is envisaged that the session will include practical tasks where attendees will experiment […]

Free

Ally – Accessible Content Is Better Content

Virtual

Blackboard Ally helps institutions build a more inclusive learning environment and improve the student experience by helping them take clear control of course content with usability, accessibility and quality in mind. Ally helps to provide alternative formats for all learners which will help to improve the overall student experience with alternative formats that provide students […]

Free

Coaching and coaching approaches in higher education settings

Virtual

This seminar will provide participants with an opportunity to hear from a thought leader in the area of coaching in educational settings and to discuss coaching as it is can be applied in their own contexts. Through it, attendees will gain insights into how coaching can contribute to student success through the structured development of […]

Free