March 2015

Designing Collaborative Online Activities: 11th March 2015

Workshop Facilitator: Clare Gormley

Interested in including more online collaboration in your courses?  Want to know how you can encourage greater student participation on your discussion boards and wikis especially?  Keen to learn more about how you can foster deeper levels of learning?  This session explores why collaboration is so important in online learning and how you can help make it work.  During this one hour workshop, we will discuss the factors that influence success and what we can learn from others with the same goals.

Further details and online registration available at this link

What can 'the fly on the classrom wall' do for you?  18th March 2015

Workshop Facilitator: Dr Pip Ferguson

In this workshop, Dr Pip Ferguson will present ideas and lead discussions about the merits of having a third party observe your teaching.  Pip has an extensive background in staff development and has done observations with staff both here at DCU, while on a Teaching Fellowship in the UK and in her native New Zealand.

Further details including online registration is available at this link

E-portfolios: showcase for student futures? 25th March 2015

Workshop Facilitator: Muireann O'Keeffe

ePortfolios are created by learners and are a collection of digital artefacts articulating educational experiences, reflections and achievements that are presented in a structured online format customised by the student.  ePortfolios have been promoted as being tools for life long learning, enabling higher order learning and potentially showing employers competencies and skills of students.  This workshop is aimed at lecturers who wish to integrate the use of ePortfolios into their curriculum.

Further details and online registration is available at this link 

Integrating Social Innovation into your teaching : 31st March 2015

Workshop Facilitator: Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh

Educators often complain about the challenge of engaging students. In their fast moving digital world they can be engaged and concerned with numerous social issues. They may wonder how their degree programme is of relevance to the issues they see around them. By embedding the values of social innovation and social entrepreneurship in various disciplines across the university, we can foster an innovative entrepreneurial attitude, and empower them to develop the skills required for changemaking. With subtle changes in our own approach to teaching and without necessarily burdening ourselves with additional work, we can support students on this path, from building awareness, through social innovation-related assignments, to integrating their studies with their participation in various national and international competitions and programmes in this area.

Further details and online registration for this lunchtime workshop are available at this link