Showcase of Learning & Teaching Innovations 2009

When: Wednesday 14 th January 2009, 9.30am to 4.30pm

Where: Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin 2

Register online : http://intranet.dit.ie/training/forms/index.html
(selecting “Showcase of Learning and Teaching Innovations” from drop down list)

This event is organised by the DIT Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre and Staff Training & Development Office.

Keynote Speaker

Mantz Yorke, Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University.
Mantz Yorke was, until August 2005, Professor of Higher Education at Liverpool John Moores University. Following retirement, he is Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. His early career was in teaching and teacher education, after which he turned to staff development and educational research at Manchester Polytechnic. He then spent six years as a senior manager at Liverpool Polytechnic followed by two years on secondment as Director of Quality Enhancement at the Higher Education Quality Council, returning to what had become Liverpool John Moores University in 1994. He has presented and published on various aspects of higher education, including ‘the first year experience’, retention, employability and assessment. His most recent books are Grading student achievement in higher education: signals and shortcomings (2008) and, with Bernard Longden, Retention and student success in higher education (2004).

Themes

• Assessment
• First Year experience
• Student Perspectives

Workshops

There will be a number of theme-related workshops in the afternoon including:

• Information Literacy – “Does Google make you stupid?”
• Wikis and blogs in education
• NDLR – what it is and how to make it work for you
• Problem-based learning

The parallel sessions, taking place in the morning, highlight DIT Learning, Teaching and Technology initiatives including projects funded by Teaching, Learning and Assessment grants.

Programme

A draft programme will be available here shortly.

And finally, the Showcase is a great opportunity to hear about all the latest developments in Learning, Teaching and Technology here at DIT. It also facilitates exchanges with colleagues from across the Institute, in an atmosphere of collaborative innovation. We hope many of you will be able to make it!