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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.

Launch Event – Engaged Research & Innovation for Societal Impact: Building Capacity Across Ireland – New 6-week Online Course

Virtual

We warmly welcome you to help us launch our new Train-the-Trainer Online Course. Hear first-hand how taking this course can help your organisation embed engaged research and innovation practice to address our greatest societal challenges with public policy makers, civic society, patients, industry and others. The launch event will showcase course content, intended course learning […]

Free

Deep diving into UDL: Swimming the Assistive Technology (AT) Waters

Virtual

In the session, we will explore AT tools in Office 365 and how they can have a place in the education experience. Let's think strategically as we explore these technologies as they address students' needs and how we can harness these technologies for the productivity and inclusion of students.

Free

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

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches to Support Wellbeing

Virtual

A keynote presentation on the topic of 'pedagogy of care' will be delivered by Maha Bali from the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Contributions will also be made by Dean O'Reilly, DCU Students' Union, Caroline Mahon, DCU Healthy and Prof. Alan Smeaton, DCU School of Computing. The seminar will […]

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

MoodleMunch

Virtual

In this webinar, Dublin City University and City of Dublin Education & Training Board will deliver presentations: 1. DCU will present on the experiences of using Moodle Board activity to foster collaborative learning (DigCompEdu competence 3.3 'Collaborative learning') 2. CDETB will present on reimagining Moodle; improving quality, productivity, and morale among their staff (DigCompEdu Area […]

Free