EDIN Update September 2010

Welcome to the start of the new academic year.

Over the summer EDIN was at ICED2010 in Barcelona, please see Ciara O'Farrell's note below. The EDIN Committee met in June and is working on updating the website and making it the key means of communication with members. We are working on a programme of events and will be in contact by email.

Marion Palmer

Chair

Ciara O'Farrell writes:

In early July Marian Fitzmaurice and I facilitated a workshop at the ICED conference in Barcelona. The workshop centred on the uses of narratives of Practice not only in supporting Academics but also Academic Developers. Both Marian and I feel strongly that we need to drive forward our own continuous development within EDIN and, as part of the EDIN committee we are planning some related initiatives in the following academic year.

The ICED conference was very interesting and our workshop was well received. One outcome of the conference for both of us was that we felt Academic Practice in Ireland is well positioned in relation to other countries – the quality of our output is well up there!

If anybody wants to talk about Narratives of Practice, feel free to contact either of us.

Ciara O’Farrell