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In this program the participants will be challenged to develop a proposal to change a course or part of one course, considering three principles: 

1. Implementing active learning approaches by using technology to support it. 

2. Facilitating collaborative learning. 

3. Reflect on your own teaching practice.

During the training, the participants will have the opportunity to develop their teaching practice, interact with colleagues from different Higher Education Institutions and have support from experts.

The language of the training will be in English and will be carried out exclusively face-to-face at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. The registration is free of charge.

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal. Diana M. has strong research experience in the field of Higher Education. She also delivered more than 85 workshops dedicated to teacher training in Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Russia and Thailand, mainly under the following topics: Active Learning, Problem and Project Based Learning, Curriculum Design, Assessment and Evaluation For detailed CV: https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/persons/diana-mesquita

Ferah Özer – Koç University, Turkey

Learning Experience Designer and Instructor at Koç University. Dr. Özer has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses about teaching in higher education and creative thinking.  She also has been working as an expert teacher trainer for the Turkish Ministry of National Education and as part of her duties at KOLT, she designs and holds trainings and workshops for faculty members. She published many of her scholarly works in internationally recognized scientific journals in the field and authored a number of books. For a detailed cv, please click the link:  https://t.ly/JKz6I 

Zuhal Zeybekoğlu-Koç University, Turkey

Director of Koc University Office of Learning and Teaching, Istanbul.  She used to teach academic skill courses to undergraduate students and effective teaching courses to graduate-level students. For the last ten years, she has been designing and delivering faculty development workshops on various topics, such as course design, effective teaching, active learning, etc., and holding individualized consultation sessions with faculty members on improving their daily teaching practices. She is particularly interested in SoTL research in HE. For a detailed CV: https://tinyurl.com/4j2bt628 

Tom O’Mahony, Munster Technological University

 Tom O’Mahony works with the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) at Munster Technological University (MTU). At MTU he coordinates and teaches on the Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. He is responsible for designing and leading staff professional development initiatives at MTU related to active learning, assessment and educational research. His research interests include active learning, especially flipped, project and problem-based learning, assessment and feedback, and engineering education. He currently leads an Educational Research Laboratory at MTU. Tom has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and hasis reviews for several educational research Journals.

Rui Lima – School of Engineering of the University of Minho 

Associate Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, Portugal. His main research interests are in IEM fields: Production and Project Management; Lean Production; Agile Project Management; Lean Healthcare; Engineering Education; Project-Based Learning (PBL); and University-Business Cooperation (UBC). He has been collaborating on international projects with universities of countries from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. He has been developing editorial work in collaboration with several journals and is the author of more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers in journals, book chapters and conferences.

Rui Oliveira – Department of Biology of the University of Minho 

Rui Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, teaching Molecular Biology and Pharmacology to Biochemistry and Applied Biology undergraduates. His research focuses on the beneficial properties of plant and algae extracts, including antioxidant, antigenotoxic, antimicrobial, and neuroprotective effects. Additionally, Oliveira has a keen interest in teaching and learning methodologies. He is involved with the Centre IDEA-UMinho, where he promotes teaching staff development and supports teaching innovation through workshops, training events, and communities of practice. He has received recognition for his pedagogical innovations, including a prize from the School of Sciences at the University of Minho in 2022 and the IUBMB Tang Education Fellowship in 2023 for his work on communities of practice at Munster Technological University in Ireland.

This is not going to be an individual journey.

During the training sessions, the participants will be encouraged to work together, by sharing experiences and building new insights.

Being connected is part of this experience.

In this session, you are going to meet your team.  

In this hands-on workshop, participants will work on the implementation of some widely used, evidence-based active learning activities and reflect on their experiences. These practices will make the participants familiar with the principles of active learning and their incorporation into daily teaching practices. Eventually, they will be able to design and develop ways of integrating active learning into their teaching practices.

This session will discuss the PBL principles using a flipped learning approach and tools. After that, it will implement short cycles of a simulation of a PBL process.

Resources used during this session and additional or suggested reading can be accessed by clicking here

1. TPACK Model: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

2. DELT: Digital Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

3. Generative AI tools

These approaches will provide insights on how to use digital tools in the classroom with the purpose to boost students' learning.

Firstly, in a webinar on ‘Artificial intelligence: From experimentation to institutional strategies’, on 17 May 15.30-16.30, we will focus on the shift towards a more strategic approach, looking both at institutional approaches and broader models for developing strategies. This will include frameworks for developing processes as well as examples of how this can be done in practice, with input from speakers including:

• Pedro Ruiz Martínez, Vice-Rector for Strategy and Digital University, University of Murcia, Spain

• Michael Webb, Director of Technology and Analytics, Jisc, UK

We look forward to engaging with a wide range of actors in the field and sparking a conversation about how to steer, and benefit from, the rapid technological developments that we are facing as universities.

On 18 June, we will hold a second webinar that will dive deeper into central ethical dilemmas surrounding the use of AI in education and research. More information will follow shortly.

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