EDIN AGM and Digital Badges Workshop

Save the Date!

EDIN's 2017 AGM has been scheduled with a Digital Badges workshop to take place at NUI Galway on Monday 15th May 2017.

Date:         15th May, 2017
Venue:      CELT, NUI Galway and Remote Attendance

Format:

• 11am to 1pm - Digital Badge Workshop facilited by Dr. Iain MacLaren
• 1pm to 1.30pm - Light Lunch
• 1.30pm to 3.30pm - Annual General Meeting

Please call back shortly for further details and EventBrite link.

Next EDIN Workshop 22nd February 2017

EDIN members are invited to a workshop by visiting academic, Dr. Peter Balan OAM, entitled Generating Research Output from Teaching Activities.
Dr. Balan is a senior lecturer in the School of Management in the University of South Australia and a recipient of an Australia Award for Teaching Excellence.

In this interactive workshop Dr. Balan describes a process that uses student evaluation data to investigate a range of constructs that are important in education and to produce academic research output. He has been developing the approach in the field of entrepreneurship education over several years and used  the approach to develop research collaborations with educators in Canada, US, Russia and Australia working in a range of teaching areas.

Please click on the following link to register for the workshop and for further details:
https://edin_tandl_research_workshop.eventbrite.com

We would like to thank Nuala Harding, Athlone IT for arranging for Dr. Balan to deliver the workshop and Ciara O’Farrell, Trinity College Dublin for hosting the event.

EDIN Workshop 24th November 2016

Ashling Hotel, Parkgate Street, Dublin 8
Thursday 24th November 2016

EDIN members are invited to attend this workshop on the National Forum's Professional Standards Framework on Thursday 24th November 2016.

The purpose of the workshop is to:

• Brainstorm possible approaches and interpretations of the framework;
• Carve out some pathways or a model for supporting staff; 
• Scope out a possible EDIN Emerging Issues publication with example case studies.

The workshop will take place from to 11am 4pm. A light lunch will be served.

Please register your attendance via Eventbrite using this link: https://edin_profdev_workshop.eventbrite.ie


These workshops are sponsored by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (www.teachingandlearning.ie).

   

 

EDIN Summer Event!

Griffith College Dublin

11am-2.30pm

Monday 20^th June 2016

EDIN will host an end-of-year professional development event for academic developers on from 11am-2.30pm on Monday 20^th June at Griffith College Dublin.

Details follow below, and registration is via EventBrite at http://edinworkshop.eventbrite.ie

11-12.30pm: The Y1Feedback Project  - Findings So Far & Implications for Practice 

The Y1Feedback Project (Supporting Transition: Enhancing Feedback in First Year Using Digital Technologies) is a collaborative project involving Maynooth University, Athlone Institute of Technology, Dublin City University, and Dundalk Institute of Technology and is funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement for Teaching and Learning. This interactive workshop will begin with a short presentation to provide an overview of the Y1Feedback project and share findings from their work so far. The presentation will be followed by a facilitated group discussion around and peer feedback on technology enabled feedback approaches, features of effective feedback for first year, and how we as academic developers can act on findings so far.  

The workshop will be facilitated by some of the Y1Feedback team including Lisa O’Regan, Project Lead Maynooth University, Morag Munro, Maynooth University, Moira Maguire, and Gerry Gallagher Dundalk Institute of Technology, and Geraldine McDermott Athlone Institute of Technology.

12.30-1.00pm: Light Lunch & Networking

1.00-2.30 pm: Professional Development Approach

This session will explore the potential for EDIN members to pilot the Professional Development approach as outlined in current documents. In particular the conversation will seek to understand each domain and phase in terms of implementation and evidence. Special focus will be given to implementation issues pertaining to the approach, and resources or supports necessary to advance same.

Dr Geraldine O'Neill from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education will facilitate this session.

These workshops are sponsored by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (www.teachingandlearning.ie).

EDIN AGM and Workshop: Improving Assessment Strategies

Friday 22nd April 2016

11.00-16.00, Q301-Q302 Business School, Dublin City University (DCU)

EDIN is delighted to announce that its AGM will take place on Friday 22nd April, followed by a workshop on Improving assessment strategies - a strategic approach. 

The workshop will be led by Ivan Moore, independent education consultant and former Director of Learning and Teaching at the Universities of Wolverhampton and Portsmouth. You can read more about Ivan's work here.

Registration is now open at EventBrite - see http://bit.ly/1Sbxg58 

EDIN Workshop: Writing for Publication

Friday 29^th January 2016

9:30am-3.30pm

Room 5050 5^th Floor, Dublin Institute of Technology Aungier Street, Dublin

EDIN is delighted to announce a workshop facilitated by Prof Rowena Murray on Friday 29th January 2016 on Writing for Publication. This event will be of particular interest to any member of staff currently preparing a publication for a journal or book, or perhaps developing reports or other writing into research publications.

To get the most from this event, participants need to be present for the duration of the full session. Please bring your laptop, tablet or preferred media to write with on the day. Please also note that while we can provide tea/coffee, lunch will not be provided at this event. The event is free but participation is limited to 25 people.

Please register for this event at Eventbrite

Further details:

This will be a practical workshop, involving writing activities and discussions of these activities and of our writing projects. Writing strategies we will cover include targeting journals, analysing published articles, generative writing, outlining, writing abstracts, dealing with peer review, making time to write and writing groups, micro-groups and retreats. Participants are encouraged to use laptops during the workshop – if you have one – although it is not essential to do so. All the writing activities in this workshop are intended to help participants develop their journal articles.

To get the most from this event, participants need to be present for the duration of the full session. Please note that while we can provide tea/coffee, lunch will not be provided. A range of options for lunch is available on Aungier Street, Kevin Street and Camden Street close to the venue.

Sue Beckingham Keynote now available to view

New Academic Year Event - Keynote now online

We were delighted to welcome Sue Beckingham, Educational Developer in Higher Education, and Lecturer within the Department of Computing, at Sheffield Hallam University, to give a keynote focusing on the use of social media by educational developers at our EDIN event on 7th September last.

SEDA members will be familiar with Sue’s work already, and you can see numerous exciting examples via Twitter @suebecks

You can now access a recording of Sue Beckingham's Keynote online here. Our sincere thanks to DCU for facilitating this recording.