A Look Back at our Webinar Series
From discussing student digital skills to escape rooms to hybrid universities, the EDTL webinar series has covered an exciting range of topics within the past year. Here, we highlight some of our most popular webinars in the past 12 months.
As 2021 draws to a close, we take a look back at some of our most popular webinars from the past year. The majority of our webinars are recorded, so if you are unable to attend live, there is always a chance to look at our Webinar page and catch up on anything you may have missed.
What are the Digital Skills Graduates Need?
Enhancing the digital skills of our graduates is one of the high level aims of the EDTL project. But what that means in practice can sometimes be a difficult question.
On the 15th of November Marian O’Connor (EDTL Project Lead at UCD), Rob Lowney & Suzanne Stone (EDTL Project Leads at DCU) and Nora Trench Bowles (Head of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Quality, IUA) came together to discuss what precisely are the digital skills our graduates need.
The full webinar can be watched here.
Post-pandemic Hybrid Universities: Re-connecting Higher Education with Slow Scholarship and Deep Practice
The concept of the Hybrid University has attracted much interest in the wake of the radical shift in teaching and learning that came with the shift to full online learning in the 2020/21 academic year.
On Monday 28th June, we were joined by Rikke Toft Nørgård, from the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, for a presentation and discussion about hybrid universities in the post pandemic environment.
The full webinar can be accessed here.
Your Education, Your Voice, Your Vision – What Our Students Said
The Your Education, Your Voice, Your Vision campaign by the IUA Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities project, aimed to crowd-source the vision for university learning in a post-Covid environment; challenging third-level students across Ireland to project themselves into the post-pandemic future and imagine their ideal learning experience. Our goal is to use students’ remote learning and assessment experiences to help create a better and brighter future for third-level education in Ireland. We want to imagine a future that caters for every student in Ireland, where no one is left behind.
Our EDTL Team and our EDTL Student Interns discussed the results of the campaign in a webinar that can be found here. For a more in depth look at the results, you can also read our report on the results of the campaign here.
Enhancing Interaction in Live Online Classes
Presented by Dr Julie Byrne, Assistant Professor in Online Education and Development at Trinity College Dublin. This webinar discusses student experiences of online classes and how to use those insights to build vibrant live online classes. This webinar, based on a project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, will share the views of students on what works to enhance interaction in live online classes. The webinar covers topics such as feedback and breakout groups and offers some tips on what educators can do to help students feel comfortable and confident interacting in the live online class, and can be watched in full here.
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