Bulletin from the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The December 2013 bulletin from the National Forum is now available - we will circulate a copy to our members via email in early January. 

In the meantime, the attention of members is drawn to the Forum's Seminar Series with a call for participation open. UPDATE: the closing date for the Seminar Series call has been extended to 22nd January 2014 - further details are on the Forum's website.

Irish Network for the Enhancement of Writing (INEW) Workshop and Discussion Forum – Supporting Postgraduate Writers 

Monday 16th December, 11am-3pm, DIT Mount Street 

This workshop is aimed at educators working with postgraduate student writers and will explore initiatives/ideas to help support postgraduates in their writing endeavours.

Agenda: 

Coffee will be served from 10.30
11.00 Claire McAvinia and Roisin Donnelly (DIT): The story so far: supervising postgraduate writers at DIT 11.45 Helen Fallon (NUIM): Five ways to increase the visibility and impact of your research and publications
12.30 Lunch
13.15 Exploring different formats for supporting postgraduate writing

1. Writing-for-publication programmes (Ciara O’Farrell, TCD) 
2. Ph.D. Writers’ Week (Lawrence Cleary and Íde O’Sullivan, UL) 
3. Writers’ groups (Ciara O’Farrell, TCD) 

14.15 Writers’ retreats using visualisation (Terry Barrett, UCD)
14.45 INEW business

To register for the workshop, RSVP by Thursday 12th December to ide.osullivan@ul.ie.

EDIN Workshop, Friday 13th December
11am-1pm
DIT

This workshop has been designed to support dissemination of the Emerging Issues III publication. Authors of chapters from the book will share and discuss their work. Our speakers confirmed for this event are Alison Clancy (UCD), Pauline Joyce (RCSI) and Josephine Boland (NUIG).

To register, please email claire.mcavinia@dit.ie by Monday 9th December.

Irish Network for the Enhancement of Writing (INEW) Workshop

Making the transition to writing in higher education
 
Friday 6th September, 2013
Trinity College Dublin, Room 103, 3-4 Foster Place
11.00 to 15.00

• Alison Farrell (National University of Ireland Maynooth), Students' attitudes to writing and their perceptions of their preparedness to write in university
• Jonathan Worley (St Mary's University College Belfast), From summary to critical thinking: From the top down or from the bottom up
• Íde O’Sullivan and Lawrence Cleary (University of Limerick), Writing to Learn: Integrating writing-to-learn activities into first-year curricula

If you wish to attend please e-mail ide.osullivan@ul.ie by next Monday, September 2nd. 

Summer reading and writing July 2013

We hope that you are enjoying the lovely summer weather. Here are some journal issues and call for papers that may be of interest to educational developers. The current issue of AISHE-J is available for reading here. Enjoy. 

ICED2014 takes place in Stockholm next 15-18 June and the call for papers is open here. 

The Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education is seeking papers for December 2013 with a deadline of 15 August 2013. Here is the current issue and the link to register as an author. 

AGM and Book launch update July 2013

Thank you for attending both the AGM and the book launch on Thursday June 20th 2013 at NUI Maynooth. The AGM reviewed the year and commended the Chair and Committee on the main work for 2012-2013 the development and publication of Emerging Issues III. The 2013-2014 Officers and Committee of EDIN were elected and are here. 

Emerging Issues III was launched by the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills Seán Ó Foghlú who complimented EDIN on the publication. Emerging Issues III has 15 articles by EDIN members with comments and responses by international experts in educational development. Articles are grouped by themes such as collaboration as a way forward, supporting academic development, using technology to enhance teaching and learning and finally emerging approaches and pedagogies. Congratulations to all the authors on the articles. EDIN thanks Alison Farrell and Ciara O'Farrell for their commitment and work as editors in bringing the original proposal to publication. Finally thanks to Nuala Harding EDIN Chair 2011-2013 for managing the project. Emerging Issues III is available as an ebook here. 

Members may be interested in the Higher Education Empirical Research Database HEER. It has been set up by the QAA in England to inform policy and practice and is free to register. 

EDIN AGM 2013 and launch of Emerging Issues III

O’Farrell, C. and Farrell, A. eds. (2013) Emerging Issues in Higher Education III: from capacity building to sustainability. Athlone: EDIN.

EDIN, the Educational Developers in Ireland Network is delighted to announce the launch of its new publication Emerging Issues in Higher Education III From Capacity Building to Sustainability edited by Ciara O’Farrell and Alison Farrell on the 20^th June 2013 in NUIM. 

Congratulations and thanks to the authors, the editors and Nuala Harding EDIN Chair 2011-2013 on the successful completion of this project funded by the HEA through NAIRTL. 

Work on this latest publication has taken place during the year of the 10^th Anniversary of EDIN. The publication is a celebration of the collegiality and collaborative spirit that underpins EDIN. We look forward returning to practice oriented activities next year.  The launch will be preceded by the EDIN AGM also in NUI Maynooth including the election of a new executive.

EDIN wishes many congratulations to Ciara O'Farrell and Marian Fitzmaurice on their recent publication. It is extremely timely as this is the 10th anniversary of the network and a wonderful celebration of collegiate support.

Details below:
O’Farrell, C.and Fitzmaurice, M. (2013)Academic developers using narrative to support our professional development. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 1-11.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14703297.2012.760776