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Call for Papers: NAIRTL / LIN Annual Conference: Flexible Learning Deadline: 18th June 2010 Information: www.nairtl.ie/conference The NAIRTL / LIN Annual Conference will be held on the 6th and 7th of October 2010 in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin. The title of this year’s conference is Flexible Learning and we aim to encourage and support HEI staff to undertake innovative approaches to their curriculum design and course implementation to meet the challenges of flexible learning. Interested participants should submit a 300 word abstract for a paper, workshop or poster (including interactive poster), webinar and other suitable formats based on one of the following themes: • Technology Enhanced Teaching • Integrative Learning • Innovation in Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning Event: Free Mahara Webinar - How ePortfolios represent a new wave of technology in Education Deadline: 29th June 2010 Registration: www.enovation.ie/index.php/component/seminar/ and c...

The ICEP 2010 ( The 2010 International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy - http://www.icep.ie/ ) abstract submission is closing soon (see below). We would be delighted to have you participate in this year's conference by submitting a paper describing your pedagogical research and practices. This year's conference is to be held in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth on Thursday December 2nd 2010 . The theme of the conference is Engaging Pedagogy: research and practices for a new decade. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: Novel teaching methods Educational technology as a means of engaging students Cultural diversity in the classroom Module and curriculum design for a new decade Assessment techniques Promoting student interest and participation Case studies Submission information: Abstracts should be no more than 200 words in length in Microsoft Word or PDF format and should be submitted at info@icep.ie by Tuesday 8th June, 2010 Intermediate feedback will be...

I was delighted to be invited to the Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN) AGM at Tipperary Institute in Thurles last week as one of four presenter to discuss the topic 'eLearning: A Marraige of Convenience or Made in Heaven?' . My fellow presenters were Dr Kevin O'Rourke of the LTTC DIT, Catherine Bruen NDLR Project Manager and Morag Munro Acting Head of the Learning Innovation Unit at DCU. The summary themes that I took from the discourse were: (1) 'eLearning developers' are also 'educational developers' by default - these are not mutually exclusive roles and it adds little to the debate by imposing artificial demarcation lines; (2) technology-enhaced learning tools must be driven by the value-added they bring to the teaching and learning experience e.g. facilitating geographically distributed students working on a group project. Pedagogy first - technology second! (3) Ireland's competitive advantage is that we have a relativeley small e...

The EdTech 2010 conference is being held on May 20-21 in Athlone Insitiute of Technology . This event is the main annual technology-enhanced learning conference for the Irish user community and once again a wide diversity of NUI Galway initiatives will be showcased at the event. NUIG has seven papers/presentations across practitioner , research, Pecha Kucha and Technology in Action strands - the largest representation from any Irish university or IoT . So congratulations to: Peter Cantillon ; Mary Flemming; Fiona Masterson ; Mark Campbell; Niall McSweeney ; Oisin Keelen ; Andrew Flaus ; Mary Dempsey; Paul Gormley ; Liam McDwyer ; Tony Hall; Bonnie Long, and Sharon Flynn. We look forward to seeing innovative uses: of Turnitin to support student writing and feedback ; the uses of wikis with Irish and German operational engineering students ; m molecules and movies in biochemistry ; and the use of online meeting rooms to facilitate primary care clinicians' teaching an...

I was honoured to chair the judging panel of the second Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in DCU's Helix recently. The judging panel consisted of Karlin Lillington (Irish Times), Muiris O'Connor ( HEA ), Sheila Porter (IBM) and Brendan Tangney ( TCD ). John O'Connor ( DIT ) won the award for his Second Life project 'Virtual Environments: Is one life enough? '. The four other short-listed projects were all truly innovative and captured the spirit of the Award perfectly. More information on the finalists and the process is available from the Award web site . From a judging perspective, the decision making was very difficult due to the high standards set by the finalists. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and Karlin has written about her take on the process in a lovely article in the Irish Times . John will be presenting his project at the EdTech 2010 conference in Athlone IT on May 20-21 , and will be presented the Jennifer ...

The NDLR (National Digital Learning Resources) is delighted to announce the call for applications to fund projects supporting the development of learning resources /materials for the NDLR Users over the next eight months (June – November 2010). Further details and the application form are available from the newly launched NDLR website . The deadline for applications is the Friday 28th May 2010. Funds will be available from 18th June to: (a) Support projects that will create learning resources and (b) Generate use and activity around these learning resources and the repository and portal. The outputs of these projects will be showcased at a major NDLR event at the end of 2010. Bids should focus on short, practical projects with clear identifiable outputs (i.e. resources and examples of use and reuse). The outputs of these projects should aim to actively progress and support the realisation of the new and dynamic streamlined SMART CoP model ( new CoPs and/or mergers between existing CoPs...

Just back from the Blackboard Teaching and Learning 2010 in Swansea , Wales held from 12-14 April. If your idea of fun is seeing: how a Saudi university was built in 1000 days; how Welsh bilingual medium provision is being supported through technology-enhanced learning; or just watching a video of Blackboard employees dressed up as ladybirds and bees to articulate their common goal of ensuring highest quality standards (getting rid of bugs!!!), this was the place to be. I presented a review of an NUIG 3-year project that aimed to embed Blackboard and other learning technologies as core mainstream technology-enhanced functions on behalf of our project team. Many international colleagues are in the same boat, so it was great chance for information and resource exchange after the presentation. Blackboard had their US product development team onsite to present Blackboard v9.1 , plus a number of new products such as Blackboard Connect (mass notification system), Blackboard Mobile , and Xyth...