Teaching


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National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is the national body responsible for leading and advising on the enhancement of teaching and learning in Irish higher education.

All Aboard: Digital Skills in Higher Education

All Aboard is a national project that aims to empower learners, teachers, and anyone who uses technology to support their work, their study, or other aspects of living in a digital age.

UCD Teaching and Learning: Resources

Our mission is to foster a culture of continuous enhancement of teaching and learning – supporting staff to deliver inclusive, innovative and research-informed teaching that leads to engaging and meaningful learning experiences for all UCD students.

UCD Access and Lifelong Learning Centre: UCD All at a Distance

Resources, Advice, and FAQs for transition to at distance teaching and learning.

Anti Racist Teaching Resources

The site will collect resources that you can use for your teaching, to acknowledge and address the history, theory, and literature that can contextualize what has led to the activism in the US around racism in the summer of 2020.

Open Teach: Professional Development for Online Teachers

The #Openteach project aims to generate new knowledge about effective online teaching practice and to harness this new knowledge to support the professional development of online teachers and to more effectively support online student learning experiences.

TELU: Open online resources for teaching with technology

TELU is a collection of free online courses, specifically designed to help educators to get the most out of technology, which can support and enhance teaching and learning. It’s a natural response to the rapidly growing complexity of technology, and of learning, maintained by teachers to make sure the best, most popular content is always just a click away.

UCD Library: Copyright and Teaching

This guide provides information on copyright in relation to library collections and their use for teaching, learning and research.

Teaching online is different: Critical Perspectives from the Literature

The #Openteach Professional Development for Online Educators project is funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students

Excellent website companion to the book of the same name – with links to teaching resources, class activities for integrating digital activities into the classroom.

Open Syllabus Explorer

The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) collects and analyzes millions of syllabi to support educational research and novel teaching and learning applications. The OSP helps instructors develop classes, libraries manage collections, and presses develop books.

Toolkit for Inclusive Education Institutions (UCD ALL)

Tool Kit for Inclusive Higher Education Institutions: From Vision to Practice: Anna M. Kelly and Lisa Padden (2018). Dublin: UCD Access & Lifelong Learning.

UCD Research Repository

Research Repository UCD is a digital collection of open access scholarly research publications from University College Dublin.

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is a peer-populated platform for educators who use visual and material culture in their teaching practice.

The Programming Historian

The Programming Historian team is committed to open source values. We believe everyone should be able to benefit from these tutorials, not just those with large research budgets for expensive proprietary software.

Price Lab for Digital Humanities (Uni of Pennsylvania)

Training workshops and bootcamps offered by Price Lab at UPenn.

Flaticon

Free Vector Images for websites and resources.

Slidesgo

Free Google Slides and Powerpoint templates.

Zoom Webinar Tutorial

Free Youtube tutorial on how to schedule a webinar on Zoom.

UCD Library Guide to Social Media Tools

Free guide from UCD Library.

DigitalEd

DigitalEd.ie is a Digital Teaching and Learning education platform, providing access to the digital learning pathways and a suite of resources available to all staff. The site provides a gateway to help CUA staff build digital capabilities and pedagogic expertise, in order to design, deliver and support flexible and online learning programmes.

Creativity, Communication, and Compassion: Working with students to create positive outcomes amidst the COVID-19 crisis

Article on adjusting to digital modes of teaching by Elan Justice Pavlinich from The Humanities in Transition: A Digital Journal

In Defense of Wandering: Podcasting as a Pedagogical Tool

This professor finds a creative way to battle screen fatigue in the COVID era – by Tamara Mitchell.

Enhancing Digital Teaching & Learning in Irish Universities

In the context of Covid-19, the project has re-focused to support a move to a more blended approach to teaching and learning in the academic year 2020/21. The EDTL Approach adheres to the pedagogy-first pillar of the project, while supporting staff in their digital professional development. A pathway with key considerations for those who are adapting a single module or a whole programme, normally taught wholly or partly face-to-face, is described.

Biorender

In the context of Covid-19, the project has re-focused to support a move to pre-made icons and templates from more than 30 fields of life sciences.

F.LUX App (Blue light filter for Computer Screens)

F.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Digital Scholarship Resource Guide

Samantha Herron’s Digital Scholarship Resource Guide. National Digital Initiatives, Junior Fellow Summer 2017.

Helpful guide to getting started in digital scholarship.

Digital Scholarship 101

Digital Scholarship 101: Six Tools to Get You Started – Library of Congress Labs, Eileen Jakeway.

Helpful information on tools for digital organisation, presentation and visualization

Digital Bloom – Exeter CASCADE Project – Curriculum and Teaching Resources List

Bloom’s taxonomy is a widely used system for writing learning outcomes. This version is designed to help you embed digitally-rich activities into the curriculum, in the confidence that technology is not being used for its own sake but to support rich learning experiences. Bloom’s taxonomy is a widely used system for writing learning outcomes. This version is designed to help you embed digitally-rich activities into the curriculum, in the confidence that technology is not being used for its own sake but to support rich learning experiences.