NDLR Training Programme 2009
The NDLR has devised a programme of workshops that aim to address the wide spread needs of the HE community in developing reusable learning resources . A series of workshops will be provided across the country (facilitated by NDLR partners) drawing on local support and focusing on issues particular to local institutions. The programme has been designed to reflect the variety of both discipline specific, pedagogical, legal and technological requirements. All staff from the NDLR partner institutions are welcome to sign-up to these workshops.
You can also view and print the training schedule as a pdf document..
Though the programme is widespread in themes - there is still room to add more...if you feel you or your institution may be able to offer some assistance (venue, facilitators, materials etc) please contact the NDLR training team.
Events: October- December 2009
Monday, 12th October 10:00-12:00
Developing Digital Content for Teaching & Learning
Facilitator: Miriam Allen
Venue: DIT
To register contact miriam.allen@dit.ie
Monday, 12th October 10am-12:00
Developing Digital Content for Teaching & Learning
Facilitator: Miriam Allen
Venue: DIT
To register contact miriam.allen@dit.ie
Wednesday, 13th October 14:00-16:00
Developing Digital Content for Teaching & Learning
Facilitator: Patrick Doyle
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Friday, 16th October 10am-12:00
Developing Digital Content for Teaching & Learning
Facilitator: Miriam Allen
Venue: DIT
To register contact miriam.allen@dit.ie
Friday, 16th October 09:30-16:00
Teaching to Improve the Quality of Student Learning
The research into how students learn and how course design influences the quality of learning has been developing rapidly in recent years. This one-day workshop has been designed for experienced academics who want to improve the way they teach and how they design their modules and programmes. It is a practical workshop and will explore how research and new understandings can be applied to areas such as course design and assessment, selecting and using appropriate teaching methods, providing feedback on students’ work and evaluating teaching and learning. It allows participants to consider the fitness of existing and suggested approaches for differing class sizes and disciplines.
Facilitator: Professor James Wisdom
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Monday, 19th October 10:00-11:00
eModerating Course Discussions, Blogs & eTivities
In this workshop we will examine how to use Discussions and Blogs in our eLearning modules paying particular attention to moderating, students support and assessment. This is an online workshop and will run over 8 weeks with participants contributing in their own time
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Wednesday, 21st October TBC
TBC
Facilitator: Dr Hillary Geber
Venue: TCD
To register contact
Wednesday, 21st October 14:30-17:00
eLearning - Effective Design
Facilitator: Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Thursday, 22nd October 14:00-16:00
Creating Accessible Content for WebCT
In this course we will look at issues of accessibility and examine how we can create accessible content to upload into WebCT. We specifically look at the application CourseGenie which is a plug-in for Microsoft Word.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Tuesday, 27th October 14:00-16:00
Online Assignments and Assessments
This is a follow on course for any who has been using WebCT or has attended the WebCT for beginners course. In this course we concentrate on the assignment and assessment features in WebCT.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
November
Monday, 2nd November 10:00-12:00
Developing Digital Content for Teaching & Learning
Facilitator:Miriam Allen
Venue: DIT
To register contact miriam.allen@dit.ie
Monday, 2nd November 10:30-12:00
Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change
Debates about the future of scholarly publishing are not a new phenomenon, and the research monograph in the humanities and social sciences has long been a focus of particular concern. Yet the sense of crisis has sharpened in recent years, and changes in the market and in technology have resulted in some fundamental shifts in academic publishers’ business. Digital media offer new opportunities, but have arguably introduced at least as many problems as they have solved. The most fundamental issues for the sustainability of scholarly publishing relate to the larger workings of the academic economy - involving not just publishers but funding bodies, research assessors and tenure committees, libraries, and all the wholesale and retail links in the international distribution chain between publisher and reader. As part of that broader picture, we need to understand the varying pressures of supply and demand, together with recent changes in the economy of print publishing and developments in electronic publishing.
In this wide-ranging lecture, based on 15 years’ publishing experience in both university-press and commercial-academic sectors, Josie Dixon reviews the state of the market and the strategies scholarly publishers have developed to ensure the survival of their business. She outlines some of the new challenges brought by digital technology, including some fundamental questions relating to copyright, access, and intellectual property. While these issues are being played out most dramatically in the sciences, it is clear that they are already encroaching on humanities and social science publishing, and likely to have a major impact in the coming years.
Facilitator:Josie Dixon
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Wednesday, 11th November 10:00-12:30
Using technology to enhance group work
In this workshop we will look at the online tools available to us in Webct for organising group work. We will set up a groups, share documents, collaboration, publishing a finished project and examine peer review options.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Thursday, 12th November 14:00-16:30
Social Networking and Informal Learning
Introducing social networking class teaching. We will examine some of the tools available and discuss how they might be used to enhance student participation in the class and facilitate more social networking between students and between teacher and student
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Tuesday, 17th November 10:00-13:00
Teaching with Emotional Intelligence
This session invites participants to consider to what extent they need to have a developed emotional intelligence in order to be effective in their work with learners. If learners’ feelings influence their readiness and ability to learn, then the lecturer should be able to respond to, and influence positively, the feelings of learners. This session will assist participants in gauging the importance of emotional intelligence for them and will suggest simple strategies for its use with learners. It will also give guidance on how to develop emotional intelligence further.
On completion of this session, participants will be able to:
* Explain the importance of using emotional intelligence in teaching
* Review their current use of emotional intelligence as a teacher
* Draw on strategies for the further development and use of emotional intelligence in their teaching
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Tuesday, 17th November 14:00-17:00
Developing Student Motivation Through Feedback
Whenever a student receives feedback on their progress or on their completed assessment tasks, that feedback has the potential to have an impact on the student’s motivation. This impact can depend on factors such as the timing, the content and even the tone of feedback. This session explores the alternative ways in which students can receive feedback and invites participants to critically review their current practice in this area.
This session provides participants with the opportunity to:
* Review the likely impact on student motivation of their current approach to feedback on students’ work;
* Plan to adapt their practice relating to feedback on students’ work in order to improve student motivation.
Facilitator:Prof. Alan Mortiboys, Birmingham City University
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Tuesday, 17th November 14:00-16:30
Social Networking and Informal Learning
Introducing social networking class teaching. We will examine some of the tools available and discuss how they might be used to enhance student participation in the class and facilitate more social networking between students and between teacher and student.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Wednesday, 18th November 14:00-16:30
eLearning - Effective Design
An introduction to elearning covering the following - Web Based e-Learning, Problems with e-Learning, Planning e-Learning, Instructional Design, Delivery methods and approaches.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Thursday, 19th November 14:00-16:30
Creating Accessible Content for WebCT
In this course we will look at issues of accessibility and examine how we can create accessible content to upload into WebCT. We specifically look at the application CourseGenie which is a plug-in for Microsoft Word.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Friday, 27th November 14:00-16:30
Online Assignments and Assessments
This is a follow on course for any who has been using WebCT or has attended the WebCT for beginners course. In this course we concentrate on the assignment and assessment features in WebCT.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
December
Wednesday, 9th December 10:00-12:30
Using technology to enhance group work
In this workshop we will look at the online tools available to us in Webct for organising group work. We will set up a groups, share documents, collaboration, publishing a finished project and examine peer review options.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Tuesday, 15th December 14:00-16:30
Social Networking and Informal Learning
Introducing social networking class teaching. We will examine some of the tools available and discuss how they might be used to enhance student participation in the class and facilitate more social networking between students and between teacher and student.
Facilitator:Catherine Kane
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Wednesday, 16th December 10:00-12:00
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
At some point in your academic teaching career, you will be asked to write a statement about your approach to teaching and the rationale behind what you do as an educator. It may be for promotion purposes, or for personal, political, professional or pedagogical reasons.
In this session we'll help you identify and articulate your teaching philosophy, provide examples of teaching philosophy statements, and spend time drafting your statement.
Facilitator:Dr. Ciara O'Farrell
Venue: TCD
To register contact clt@tcd.ie. Please specify which training event when registering.
Details on past workshops.
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