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.

CALLING ALL EDIN MEMBERS!

EDIN New Year Event and Annual General Meeting
Monday 7th September 2015, DCU

Kick off the new academic year with a special event from EDIN!
 
We are 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.

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

The full programme for the event is:

1030  EDIN AGM
1200  Keynote from Sue Beckingham
1300  Lunch
1400  Workshop: further details to follow

Room Q301 Business School, DCU (building opposite the multi-storey Car Park)

The Keynote will follow our AGM, with lunch later and a workshop in the afternoon. We encourage as many of you as possible to join us for the AGM, as a number of Committee roles will be re-filled this year.

How to Register

To register for the event, please use Eventbrite:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/edin-new-year-event-monday-7th-september-2015-tickets-18305463133 

You are welcome to contact claire.mcavinia@dit.ie with any queries or with any access or dietary requirements you may have.

EDIN AGM IN SEPTEMBER - SAVE THE DATE!

EDIN Annual General Meeting

Please note that the EDIN AGM will take place on Monday 7th September 2015 in Dublin.

We will confirm venue details in full shortly.

We are delighted to announce that Sue Beckingham, Educational Developer in Higher Education, and Lecturer within the Department of Computing, at Sheffield Hallam University, will join us for this event to give a keynote.

The full details and schedule will be advised shortly - please keep an eye on this site and on our email newsletters.

Note from Dr Martin Fitzgerald, EDIN Chair

Dear EDIN colleagues,

I hope all is well and the academic year is coming to a positive close for you.  As we come to the end of another successful year for the network, I would like to thank you for your inputs and engagement with EDIN throughout the year. While everyone is not actively involved all the time, I know that you follow the work of the network and the activities that take place. This year has been very busy in terms of our engagement with the National Forum, producing a special EDIN edition of the AISHE–J Journal and running two workshops (one in UCC and one in collaboration with INEW and AISHE in DIT).

Our final task of the year is to ask for a few minutes of your time to complete a survey of members to identify how EDIN can support your work as an education developer in the coming year.  It is a very short survey but it would be very beneficial in helping us to plan ahead.  Could I ask you to please fill it in and support the network to do its work?  All responses will be anonymous but it would be fantastic to get your feedback.

The survey is available here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EDIN   

Thank you and have a lovely summer.

Martin Fitzgerald

EDIN Chair

EDIN/HECA Collaborative Project: Identifying the Professional Development Needs of Part-Time Academic Staff

EDIN and HECA recently collaborated on a project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning to identify the professional development needs of part-time academic staff in third level education in Ireland.

The project's aim was to deliver a research-informed analysis of professional development needs for the target group to inform continuing professional development programmes for these staff in the future.

Thank you to all of our members and their colleagues who contributed to the survey and focus group as part of this project. The research has now been completed and you can access reports on the project's website under the Publications link.

Network for Educational Action Research Ireland (NEARI)

Join us for the inaugural meeting of the Network for Educational Action Research in Ireland

25th April 2015

1030-1430

Share in the Magic of Action Research — an opportunity to network and meet up with others of an ‘action researcherly’ disposition in the informal, relaxed setting of the Interfaith Centre, Dublin City University on 25th April, from 10.30 to 2.30. Map shows Centre as M just by grassed lawns in middle, at http://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/campus_map_large.jpg

You are invited to network with action researchers who are new to action research, who are working on action research projects and who are life-long action researchers. This is  a cross sectoral group with Primary, 2nd Level and Further Education participants.

The aim of this group is  

• to contribute to the greater good and growth of educational knowledge by sharing our research stories
• to provide encouragement and support for action researchers in conducting rigorous and evidence based work,
• to provide opportunities for personal and critical engagement through networking and resource sharing

What you can expect to do on the day

10.00   Meet and greet with refreshments

10.30   Introduction to NEARI its aims and how it might work

11.30   Networking: sharing stories of research and learning

12.00   Town Hall Discussion. This is an open forum for all present to chart a way forward for our     group with questions such as how do we identify, consolidate, support and promote areas of strength

13.00   Light Lunch

13.30   Resource Sharing - e.g. blogs online, journals and networks - global map

14.00   Planning next network meeting

14.30   Close

Email Pip Ferguson on pip.ferguson@dcu.ie  by 5pm on 17th April to reserve a seat. (Places limited)

National Forum Research Project - Survey and Focus Groups

From Angélica Rísquez:

Dear colleagues

We are currently leading a collaborative National Forum funded research project which sets out to explore patterns of use and attitudes towards the use of open educational resources among teaching staff in higher education institutions in Ireland. This research study has received ethics approval from the Specialist REC. You can find out more about the project on the National Forum's website (project no. 1) http://www.teachingandlearning.ie/t-l-scholarship/national-forum-research-projects/ and/or on the project website https://irelandoerproject.wordpress.com/.

We invite you to complete this short questionnaire which will not take more than 15 minutes and will greatly assist with the research, it is open until 16^th April:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NFOER

Focus Groups will be taking place in Limerick, Galway and Dublin in the coming weeks – please can we ask you to keep an eye out for notice of these meetings.

On behalf of the project team I very much appreciate your assistance.

Kind regards

Angélica Rísquez, PhD

AISHE-J Special Issue - Call for Papers

Embedding Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions

The All Ireland Society for Higher Education, AISHE, has issued a Call for Papers for its upcoming special issue Embedding Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Institutions: Reconceptualizing entrepreneurship education.

The Guest Editors of this special issue will be Professor Colette Henry (DkIT) and Professor Pauric McGowan (UU). Submission of short abstracts (400 words) to guest editors is by 17th April 2015 (collete.henry@dkit.ie, p.mcgowan@ulster.ac.uk). The publication date is expected to be February 2016. You can read more on the AISHE website at http://www.aishe.org/2015/03/23/auto-draft/

AISHE-J Special Issue on Leadership in Academic and Educational Development in Higher Education Published

An AISHE-J Special Issue undertaken by EDIN in collaboration with AISHE has now been published. The journal Special Issue took as its theme Leadership in Academic and Educational Development in Higher Education.

The special issue includes four substantive research papers, and a series of reflections and reviews of practice. All contributions were invited on this occasion, and the research includes work from Ireland as well as internationally. You can access the full text articles at the AISHE-J site here.

EDIN will shortly convene a more formal launch event to take place later this spring. In the meantime we acknowledge sincerely the work of all of the authors contributing to the special issue, and in particular our colleagues Saranne Magennis (AISHE) and Dr Alison Farrell (formerly of EDIN's Committee) for their very hard work in producing this special issue.