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PROJECT STATUS: ONGOING/FINISHED

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National Forum for T&L seminar (part of #NFSeminar series)

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National Forum for T&L seminar (part of #NFSeminar series)

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Name: Yurgos Politis & Ana Schalk
DEPT: LTTC
CAMPUS: City

PROJECT AIM: Present the finding from the Academic Professional Development project and have a conversation about this topic at a institutional/local and international context

PROJECT AUDIENCE: Academics, academic researchers, HR, Policy makers (HE)

PROJECT STATUS: 27th Nov

Description:
The organizers are involved with the Academic Professional Development (APD) project that aims at identifying PD needs among Early Career Academics through a Participatory Design approach during workshop(s), resulting in co-creating CPD that better matches their institutional/departmental experiences and needs. They are also involved with the HEA funded IMPACT project’s CPD pathways workpackage.

The proposed seminar wants to start a conversation among academics, learning developers and institutional managers as to how to get junior academics engaged in the process of Professional Development, get them thinking of the types of knowledge, skills and competencies they feel they need to improve how they carry out their roles and thus making them invested in their Professional Development.

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NAME: Ana Schalk & Yurgos Politis
DEPT:   LTTC
CAMPUS:  City

PROJECT AIM: To cocreate with (early career) academics non-formal Professional Development (workshop) on an area of their choosing

PROJECT AUDIENCE: academics and academic researcher, especially in the early stages of their career

PROJECT STATUS:  ongoing

Description:

The National Forum Framework for the Professional Development (PD) for teaching and learning in Higher Education (NF, 2016) highlights that flexible, open and diverse Life Long Learning is underpinned by the values of inclusivity, authenticity, scholarship, learner-centeredness and collaboration, and should include informal or non-formal activities such as workshops.

The study wants to identify PD needs among Early Career Academics through a Participatory Design approach during workshop(s), resulting in co-creating CPD that better matches their institutional/departmental experiences and needs. The researcherd are also involved with the HEA funded IMPACT project’s CPD pathways workpackage.

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Dept: School of Hospitality Management and Tourism
Campus: City Centre
Project Aims: To embed responsibility and resilience into final year students
Project status: ongoing ( though not running 2020/21 due to Covid 19 restrictions)
Description: This project revolves around a final year cap-stone module which involves co-creation and collaboration between the students, the destination/community and the lecturer. Based on their previous three years of learning, students are required to develop, execute and reflect on an extended field-trip related to a current tourism theme ( SDGs tend to influence here).  Assessment criteria are also co-created by the students. The staged process of    Planning and Preparation, Execution and Delivery, Evaluation and Closure  provides the students with a sense of ownership of the module enhancing the group work and team dynamic

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Name: John Byrne

Dept: Business

Campus: Blanchardstown

Project Aim: To analyse and provide constructive feedback to coaching peers.

Project Audience;2nd Year SMCO TU  Dublin Blanchardstown

Project Status;Ongoing

Description;

2nd year Sports Management and Coaching students’ coach primary school children in two schools in D15.

The students’ plan and implement physical activity sessions for the primary school students.

The coach from each session will receive constructive feedback from a peer coach and the coaches assisting in each activity. All students involved gain experience of coaching children, listening to the feedback and deciding on their own personal improvement goals for their next coaching session..

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Name: Michelle Looby
Dept: Dept of Engineering, School of I&E,
Campus: Blanchardstown Campus. Project Aim: Retention of 1st Years
Project Audience: First Year Students
Project Status: Ongoing
Description: Peer Mentoring Programme: Get Connected Peer Mentoring Programme will be run virtually from Semester One.   First years will be placed into small groups and assigned a student mentor from their department. The groups will meet for five online sessions over Semester 1 and Semester 2.  The role of the peer mentor is to guide first years through what to expect in their first year, answer questions about practical matters, and direct students to where they can go if they need extra help with their studies. Each peer mentoring online session will be built around a theme, and the topics will complement the 2020 Orientation programme. After each online catch-up, mentors will complete a quick survey about how they and their groups are getting on. Our 2020 first years will need a lot of support as they make the transition to third-level education, and we know that our experienced students will want to help them by passing on their tips and advice. All our peer mentors will be supported in their role by the programme co-ordinators, and will receive training in the skills they need.

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Assessing Future Trends through Peer Learning Workshops 

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Assessing Future Trends through Peer Learning Workshops 

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Name: Bairbre Brennan
Dept: School of Business Campus: Blanchardstown Project Aim: Encouraging peer learning and peer sharing Project Audience: Students from Digital Marketing in Year 4
Project Status:  Ongoing Description:

Market Dynamics: Analysis and Assessment is designed to support final year students acquiring the ability to research and report on possible future scenarios and impacts. The ability to gather current information about emergent trends and anticipate their possible future impact is a highly sought after skill in industry.
This assessment was designed to support the students not only in finding and analysing information, but also in gaining the ability to share that information with their peers, for the entire cohort to engage in meaningful discussion, and finally for them to internalise the learnings and apply them to a new context.
Students, in groups of two, were allowed to pick an emergent technology or trend that would impact on industry on the future (e.g. Bitcoin, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence). They then researched their topics, including interviewing an academic expert. The outcome was to design a 2 hour workshop for their class peers, where they would share what they had learnt. In advance of the workshop, they shared preparatory readings to inform the discussion. The attendees were given a takeaway one – two page overview document to remind them. The topics were delivered in a sequence that later workshops could refer back to earlier content to show how one would impact on the other. Engagement with this module, the content and the approach was excellent and the students gained confidence from teaching their peers what they had learned. All students prepared for the discussion which allowed lots of discussion and deeper learning.

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Dept: School of I&E
Campus: Blancharstown
Project Aims: To embed entrepreneurship in higher education
Audience: Non-Business Students
Project Status: Complete
Description:  ACE sought to provide innovative approaches to entrepreneurship education by providing the opportunity for students from non-business programmes to engage in collaborative enterprise development projects
Status; Complete

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TransformEDU, funded by HEA, is led by Philip Owende, Blanchardstown Campus but involves all TU Dublin

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TransformEDU, funded by HEA, is led by Philip Owende, Blanchardstown Campus but involves all TU Dublin

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PROJECT AIM:  Transform-EDU aims to develop and pilot an innovative approach to learning, where elements of structured
programmes, and co and extra-curricular events are purposefully integrated to create a rich learning
environment.

Among the deliverables of Workpackage 4.3 is the  Identify an e-Portfolio standard for student learning development and management;

The ePortfolio hub has been identified as this standard. This was previously developed with funding from the National Forum and provides an ideal framework which has acquired international recognition:

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Learn everything you need to know to create and incorporate an ePortfolio that will act as your electronic portfolio of evidence on your learning journey.

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Name: Enabling pedagogical Opportunities for Learning project

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Name: Enabling pedagogical Opportunities for Learning project

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Project partners: TU Dublin and Purdue University
Contact names: Jen Harvey, Darragh Power
Project aim: to investigate, plan and implement engagement with lecturers, schools and colleges to enable a successful transition from the current sites to learning spaces on the new campus buildings, providing the student – where possible – with an enhanced learning experience. This will be done through

Early adoption and trials

Staff Awareness & Development

Creation of room exemplars

Project status: on hold

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Name: Creating a sense of belonging: First year checklist for success

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Name: Creating a sense of belonging: First year checklist for success

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Project partners: TU Dublin HEA funded retention project

Names: Jen Harvey, Ana Schalk, Rachel O'Connor, Michelle Looby, Geraldine Gray
Aims: to support programme teams to map out activities to support the transition into Third level and enhance the first year experience of their students. This strand supports orientation activities that encourage early engagement between students, staff, and external communities as well as programme content and processes

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Extended Induction for Sciences & Health Students – the Kickstarting College Success Programme

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Extended Induction for Sciences & Health Students – the Kickstarting College Success Programme

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Names: Claire McDonnell, Ciarán O’Leary and Fionnuala Walsh

College: College of Sciences and Health, City campus

Aim: To implement an effective and engaging extended induction programme for first years over the first 5-6 weeks of the semester.

Audience: First year students and academic and professional support staff who interact with them.

Status: Ongoing – the challenge this year is the switch to online

Description:  Some prototype project funding from the TU 4 Dublin Reimagining the Curriculum project allowed us to implement a pilot in 2015. We then rolled out extended induction across the College of Sciences and Health in 2016.
The aim is to provide relevant information to first years about services and support available to them at a pace that allows them to engage with it. A participatory & collaborative approach is used that draws on students’ existing knowledge and experience and encourages engagement with peers.

What we have found works to make the lunchtime extended induction sessions effective is;

1 Recommendation to attend by year tutor;
2 Promoted at orientation, weekly email reminders, own logo;
3 Focused input from professional support staff at a suitable pace with opportunity for discussion;
4 Opportunities to interact peer to peer during sessions – questions posed for discussion, groups of 8 to 10 around tables;
5 2nd year student ambassadors & peer mentors circulating and interacting;
6 Supporting Facebook page and VLE module (weblinks, videos etc.);
7 Certificate for attending all sessions;
8 Light lunch (energy bar, fruit, soft drink in brown bag);
9 Low stakes assignment linked to reflection on information provided & completion of transitions survey.

Attendance in 2019-20 was 61% on average across the 4 weeks in and focus groups by the Campus Life Office in Dec 2018 showed a better awareness of services and supports available among Sciences & Health students.

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School: Hospitality Management and Tourism - City Campus

The three key themes of the project are:

§ Connecting theory and practice

§ To develop the concept of co creation in learning

§ To provide transformative learning experiences

Audience: Tourism Destinations (industry and community) and Students

Status: Ongoing since 2012

Description:

An approach which involves festering engagement between students, staff, and the industry and community in tourism destinations.  A team of academics provide ‘real-life experience increasing communication skills and resilience in our graduates… some of the motivating factors to Students in Action Initiative

The  project initiated in 2012, and lecturers collaboratively develop  and co-create with industry, communities and providers  within a geographically designated area , an approach  to module delivery which include incidents of engagement  ( such as the fieldtrip, focus groups, guest speakers) and applied academic assessment ( such as written, reflective reports, posters, wikis ).    It uses theory to inform practise in a multi-disciplinary manner:  marketing, destination planning, IT, enterprise development, heritage and culture, events.   Guided by national and institutional educational policy, and co-created with the stakeholders from each destination, the students learn to research, critically evaluate, reflect and provide solutions to issues and challenges that emerge within the designated area.

On completion of the work, feedback to the destination, industry and community is critical providing building blocks to enhance the process.  Students are part of this feedback mechanism to the stakeholders and they learn the importance of dissemination.

Winner of a DELTA award 2018 https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/awards/delta-award/