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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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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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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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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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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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