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Virtual Reality Simulation in Teaching - ViReTrain

Colleagues from the School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Medicine in the University of Galway, Siobhán Smyth, Yvonne Finn & Fionnuala Jordan introduce the ViReTrain project…

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EQUIPPING lecturers in international classrooms

EQUIPPING lecturers teaching in international classrooms – an approach for embedding international classrooms in UG programmes and connecting lecturers in Communities of Practices. Presentation…

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Authentic Learning on the Streets of Galway - A User Experience (UX) hackathon

Mairead Hogan describes a one-day hackathon run with students on the Streets of Galway, engaging the public and synthesize their learning around user involvement in design.Hackathons are short…

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Irish Survey of Student Engagement Seminar - what can ISSE do for you

Dr. Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha (former) project manager of StudentSurvey.ie introduces the surveys, the background to developing the surveys and how the data can be used at a local level to…

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Internationalising our classrooms: practical ideas

Internationalising our classrooms: practical ideas to further enrich multicultural group learning experiences and their assessment. Two short presentations followed by discussion,…

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Digital Champions_ Building Digital Skills and Confidence at the University of Galway

Blaneth McSharry and Grainne McGrath (CELT) introduced participants to the Digital Champions initiative. Digital Champions is a staff / student partnership initiative at the University of Galway,…

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Students struggling with academic writing: Learn about the AWC mini-course.

Dr. Irina Ruppo from the University's Academic Writing Centre introduces a mini-course, and describes the research underpinning the course, designed to help students who struggle with academic…

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Internationalising our classrooms_ practical ideas to increase success in the multilingual and multicultural classroom

Practical ways of using coaching tools and techniques to help your students deal with cultural challenges by Dr Maeve Egan, English Language Centre Manager, University of Galway.

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Internationalising our classrooms_ practical ideas to increase success in the multilingual and multicultural classroom

Increasing understanding of multilingualism and studying through English as a second/additional language by Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott, Associate Professor in Speech and Language Therapy,…

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Interactive orals - a viable alternative to traditional assessment

Fiona O'Riordan, DCU, introduced us to interactive orals. Over 3000 students have engaged in interactive orals over the past 2 years in DCU, with positive feedback from students and staff.

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Art as a Medium for Doing Mathematics In the Classroom and Bringing Mathematics into the Community

Zdenka Guaddarama guided us through her Museum if Art in Math Teaching. Students’ active engagement in the “doing of mathematics” in the classroom is achieved through carefully…

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Silver Linings_ Developing a model of fully online teaching and learning during a global pandemic

Dr Sheila Garrity, Dr Bonnie Thompson-Long and Valerie Kelly, of the CALPD, will present findings from their research, undertaken during the 2020-2021 academic year, which informed the development of…

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CSE Teachmeet: Dr Kevin Moerman - "Jupyter notebooks: Enhancing the interactive nature of live coding lectures"

CSE Teachmeet 30 March 2021 - In this session Dr Kevin Moerman demonstrates how he has integrated Jupyter notebooks into the teaching of one of his modules. These notebooks contain live code and…

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CSE Teachmeet: Dr Andrew Flaus - “Authenticity in the Asynchronous: How easy is it to simulate in-person lectures?"

CSE Teachmeet 30 March 2021 - One surprise of the COVID teaching response is that students appear to prefer live lectures (synchronous) over pre-recordings (asynchronous). We delivered a…

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CELT Audio and Podcasting for HE (Audio Only)

CELT session, with Gráinne and Jeremiah on Audio and Podcasting for HE (session 20210325) This is presented as audio only to demonstrate the ease with which one can deliver their teaching…

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Reassessing lab-based science education - Michael Seery

Reassessing lab-based science education - Michael Seery School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

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