Events and Workshops
Past events
December 2008
NDLR Second Annual Symposium 2008
Tuesday 2nd December
Health Sciences Building, UCD
Click here to view podcast recordings of all events on the day
Click here to view the full programme
On Tuesday 2nd December, the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) will be hosting the second annual symposium at University College Dublin. We would like to invite you to this event where we will be looking back at the activities and achievements from the past four years of the NDLR project and showcase the endeavours and challenges, cultural, organisational and technological faced by the Communities of Practice’ in all aspects of sharing teaching and learning practice and digital resources for teaching and learning in a digital age.
We are very pleased to welcome Professor Ronald Barnett, Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, Dr. Ahrash N Bissell, Executive Director, ccLearn, Creative Commons, Chris Pegler, The Open University and John Casey, TrustDR IPR and Jorum who will be presenting on the day along with all of our Communities of Practice.
Click here for full details of the Symposium's schedule and additional information
Setember 2008
The 3RD Inter - Institutional Retention Colloquium
New Perspectives on Retention in Further and Higher Education
Date: Friday 26th September
Time: 10:00 am- 16:30p.m
Venue:Absolute Hotel, Limerick City
To register, contact Vicky.Kelly@ul.ie
Keynote Speaker: Professor Mantz Yorke was, until August 2005, Professor of Higher
Education at Liverpool John Moores University, and is now Visiting Professor in the
Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University.
Modern Languages' CoP blog wins a 2008 European Award for Languages on September 26th - the European Day of Languages.
Veterinary & Bio-Environmental Sciences Showcase day
Click here to download the NDLR toolkit
CoP Survey: winner announced
June 2008
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June
International Symposium on the Future of Universities, organised by Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) in NUI Galway - See http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/ for details and registration.
Monday 23rd - Friday 27th June
Problem-based Learning Summer School, organised by Centre for Teaching and Learning UCD - See PBL Summer School Flyer for details and registration.
May 2008
Thursday 1st May
DCU NDLR Information Seminar: Activities and Achievements to Date where Muireann O’Keeffe, Eamon Costello, Dermot Brabazon and Morag Munro will provide an information session that will detail the activities and contributions that DCU have made to the NDLR in the past 12 months.
The Principles of Graphic Design (presented by Diane Cashman, UCD) from
13:00pm – 16:30pm in Dublin City University. Contact Muireann O’Keeffe for registration and details.
Thursday 1st May
Cultural Diversity Workshop: Athlone IT, 2.00pm – 5.00pm. Contact Nuala Harding (nharding@ait.ie) for details and registration.
Friday 2nd May
NDLR RLO Fest - Train the Trainers Seminar: facilitated by Diane Cashman in Seminar Room, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Woodview House, Belfield, UCD, 10:00am – 14:00pm.
This seminar is for any CoP coordinator or NDLR coordinator who would like to facilitate a RLO fest workshop in their own institution. Training materials, tips and techniques will be presented. As part of the NDLR project work for 2008, UCD will be coordinating a RLO festival in the coming months. The RLO fest will run in partner institutions and will consist of a one or two day workshop on developing Reusable Learning Objects. As part of the festival, you are invited to attend a 'train the trainer' 3 hour seminar which will run in UCD on Friday May the 2nd.
Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th May
A Strategic Innovation Fund Project, Education in Employment" presents- A WORK-BASED LEARNING SYMPOSIUM at the Institute of Technology, Sligo. Please conatct reynolds.lorraine@itsligo.ie for more details.
Monday 12th May
Two pre-conference Workshops as part of the Seventh Annual Trinity College Dublin eLearning conference - Embedding Innovative Technology Enhanced Learning: Reflections on Active Learning.
See http://www.tcd.ie/CAPSL/clt/ for more details. Contact cbruen@tcd.ie for details & registration
Tuesday 13th May
Seventh Annual Trinity College Dublin eLearning conference Embedding Innovative Technology Enhanced Learning: Reflections on Active Learning TCD annual e-learning conference. See http://www.tcd.ie/CAPSL/clt/
Key note presentation: Knowledge Media and the Bleeding Edge of Open Learning by Dr. Peter J. Scott (Director Knowledge Media Institute, Open University UK.
Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th May
NDLR RLO Festival at IT Sligo . Contact kane.patricia@itsligo.ie for details & registration.
Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th May
As part of a programme of events organised by Computer Science Community of Practice, Developing, adapting and using learning objects, presented by Professor Tom Boyle, Director of the Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) at London Metropolitan University. The Absolute Hotel, Limerick, 9:30am-4:00pm. Contact Aisling.dundon@ul.ie for details and registration.
Wednesday 21st May
As part of EDTech 2008, NDLR sponsored RLO Fest in Dundalk IT; 14:00am – 16:30pm. Contact stefanie.ratzky@dkit.ie for details & registration..
Thursday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd May
EDTech 2008, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Registration now open. See http://www.ilta.net/ for details
Call for Papers for Learning Innovation Network Conference October 2008- http://lin-ireland.com
Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th May
NDLR RLO Festival: Developing Reusable PBL Triggers – UCD(2nd PBL Summer School).
Contact Diane.Cashman@ucd.ie for details & registration.
April 2008
Instructional Design
Date: Tuesday 29th April
Time: 14:00 p.m. – 17:00 p.m.
Venue:F2727, Athlone IT
To register, contact Nuala Harding at nharding@ait.ie
The aim of this interactive workshop will be to show Instructional Design as the process whereby learning, not technology, is kept at the centre of eLearning development in AIT.
Advanced Learning and Adaptive Problem Solving Techniques: Practical Lessons from Cognitive Science
Date: Wednesday 30th April
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 16:00 p.m.
Venue:B1005, University of Limerick
To register, contact aisling.dundon@ul.ie
This practical workshop will focus on advanced deep learning and adaptive problem solving techniques based on research in cognitive science into the development of superior mental performance. Particular attention will be paid to the application of these techniques to improving both research and teaching skills. These techniques will be introduced within the context of creating an ongoing Reflective Teaching and Research Portfolio for Professional Development.
Dr. Delany recently successfully taught a variant of this course to staff and postgrads of Cornell University NY ( http://www.trii.org/courses/act.html ) as an invited lecturer. Eminent attendees of this popular course included Prof. Bernice Bernstein (an award-winning neurobiologist and the first women president of the prestigious Society for Neuroscience) and a range of doctors and professors from several faculties. Dr Delany has been invited back to Cornell to run the course again.
Derived from findings in cognitive psychology the course principles and techniques are designed to improve the meaningful learning, creative thinking and deep insight skills of researchers in both the sciences and the humanities.
March 2008
NDLR Information Seminar and Excel Workshop 14th March
Dates & Time
Friday 14th March 09:45. - 15:00
Venue: VBG11, Postgraduate Building, DCU
To register, contact: mailto:learning.innovation@dcu.ie
| 9:45-10:00 |
Registration |
| 10.00-10:30 |
Introduction and review of the NDLR project to date |
| 10.30-11:00 |
30 minute demonstration on creating a simple Excel animation |
| 11:00- 12:45 |
Workshop session; Using Excel to adapt existing Excel macros and creating macros |
| 13:30- 15:00: |
NDLR consultation clinic
This is an optional clinic which participants can register for. The NDLR
Co-ordinator (Muireann O'Keeffe) will answer NDLR queries including any of the following: accessing and downloading resources from the NDLR, uploading resources, metadata, NDLR copyright issues. Planning and designing
learning resources. |
February 2008
Showcase of Camtasia projects in DCU
Date: Friday 8th February
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 16:15 p.m.
Venue:DCU Learning Innovation Unit, room VBG11
Facilitator: Eamon Costello
To register, contact eamon.costello@dcu.ie
Using the NDLR
Date: Wednesday 20th February
Time: 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Venue: IT Carlow
Facilitator: Damien Raferty
Please note that this event is for staff at IT Carlow only.
January 2008
Maths and Statistics Service Teaching Community of Practice
Date: Friday 18th January
Time: 10.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Venue:University of Limerick, Maths Department
Facilitator:Paul Robinson
To register, contact paul.robinson@it-tallaght.ie
This workshop will include the following:
- Each participant will be shown how to create an animation using excel charting and some simple Visual Basic.
- Each participant will create an animation for themselves and all participants will get a copy of all animations made on the day. Such animations can be usefully created as a lab activity for students or as demonstrations in class, without requiring specialist software.
Participants will also see how to access and download learning objects from the NDLR. One of the excel animation learning objects will also be uploaded to the NDLR at the end of the session (with the associated metadata).
The Limerick workshop is co-hosted by the Shannon Consortium.
Developing Reusable Learning Resources (RLRs) and Activities
Date: Monday 28th January
Time: 9.45 a.m. – 4.15 p.m.
Venue: Centre for Teaching and Learning, Seminar Room, Woodview House, UCD
To register, contact diane.cashman@ucd.ie
Further Information Contact:
Diane Cashman, 01 7163015, diane.cashman@ucd.ie
Or visit the Centre for Teaching and Learning website, www.ucd.ie/teaching
If you or any of your colleagues would like to attend please complete the registration form and return to teachingandlearning@ucd.ie.
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