5. The Enhancing Digital Teaching &
Learning project
Funded through HEA Innovation & Transformation Programme 2019-
2021
Enhance the digital attributes and educational experiences of Irish
university students
Aim to mainstream digital in teaching and learning activities in Irish
Universities, by addressing the professional development of all who
teach or support teaching and learning.
8. Early Project Activities
Pilot groups of academic
staff within each
institution
Mapping of CPD
opportunities and self-
assessment of digital skills
Launch of webinar series
and mailing list
community - #IUADigEd
Building on work of many
existing communities:
#EdChatIE, ALT, ILTA,
#FemEdTech, Virtually
Connecting, Equity
Unbound…and CESI!
13. Planning Ahead
To meet the needs of diverse learners in flexible landscapes, educators
need more than a single framework. Universal Design for Learning
(UDL) reminds us the goal of school is to teach students how to
become motivated, resourceful, innovative learners and to help them
prepare for the lives they want to live. To do this, we have to embrace
blended learning so our pedagogical practices can seamlessly traverse
from in-person, hybrid, online, and back again.
Katie Novak; Caitlin Tucker., 2021
15. Short Courses for Staff
Universal Design for Teaching and Learning
• Institutional rollouts by project team
• National rollouts for FET and HE (AHEAD)
Getting Started with Personal and Professional Digital Capacity
• Developed by the EDTL team and launched as a national rollout in November 2021
Findings
• Surprising uptake
• Light-touch, peer group format to redesign an element of teaching (25 effort hours)
• Open access materials for all to use
20. Some Cautious Optimism…
[The pandemic] has brought into focus numerous examples of
extraordinary resilience, networks and at times unexpected alliances of
collaboration and support, including inspiring creativity, examples of
technology used for equity purposes and moments of optimism.
Czerniewicz et al., 2020
21. The Post-Pandemic University
• What sort of university will
emerge from this crisis?
• The Post-Pandemic University
is an online magazine, podcast
and conference series based in
the Institute of Education at
the University of Manchester.
24. Resources
• Association for Higher Education Access and Disability (AHEAD):
https://www.ahead.ie/udl
• Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu):
https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en
• Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning: http://edtl.blog
25. References
• Czerniewicz, L., Agherdien, N., Badenhorst, J., Belluigi, D., Chambers,
T., Chili, M., de Villiers, M., Felix, A., Gachago, D., Gokhale, C., Ivala, E.,
Kramm, N., Madiba, M., Mistri, G., Mgqwashu, E., Pallitt, N., Prinsloo,
P., Solomon, K., Strydom, S., Swanepoel, M., Waghid, F. and Wissing,
G., 2020. A Wake-Up Call: Equity, Inequality and Covid-19 Emergency
Remote Teaching and Learning. Postdigital Science and Education,
2(3), pp.946-967.
• Katie Novak; Caitlin Tucker., 2021. UDL and Blended Learning; Thriving
in Flexible Learning Landscapes [S.l.]: IMPRESS, LP.