Digital Skills in Action - Presentation June 2016
Channel: National Forum T&L
Date: 2016-07-01

The annual review of the Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund 2015 projects took place on June 8th and 9th 2016.The review was facilitated by the international review panel.

For more information, visit http://www.teachingandlearning.ie/digital-enhancement-funding/2015-successful-proposals/

The Leinster Pillar 1 Regional Cluster will run a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) week in 2016. This digital initiative will focus on embedding digital skills into everyday teaching and learning practice.
It will enlist members of our academic communities in the creation of digital case studies and e-practicums; it will support innovation; and promote continuous professional development in digital skills. It will enable our academic communities to share in the ongoing development of teaching and learning practice. Finally it will celebrate our digital champions and disseminate the outcomes of their work through collaborative workshops and online resources.
The proposal is cognisant of the “All Aboard” project and will utilise its evolving digital skills framework and training resources to inform and support the activities of this project.
The project comprises of four stages:
Stage 1: Taking Stock
Gather, analyse and share current resources and activity on digital skills in our institutions, mapping to aspects of the “All Aboard” digital skills framework.
Stage 2: Design and Development
Identify and enlist members of the academic community to create discipline-specific case studies of digitally enhanced practice. The case studies will provide the focal point for the development and implementation of pedagogical and instructional design resources, which will be hosted on an open platform shared across the institutions.
Stage 3: TEL week
In the TEL week staff and students across the cluster will be invited to participate in seminars and workshops, centred on the case studies. A combination of face-to-face events will be supported and facilitated through an open sources course site enabling national participation.
Stage 4: Evaluation
The project will be evaluated through review of (i) the success of the collaboration within the cluster; (ii) levels of
participation and engagement in each stage of the project; (iii) the impact on staff and student learning.