The following are details of sessions held together with links to the relevant resources:
Maths Stories - Overcoming the Struggle
Monday January 9th, 2023, 10:00 - 12:30 Description This seminar was brought to us by our colleagues from the Mathematics Learning Community (LC), one of MTU’s longest established and most active LCs. The seminar was capably chaired by Dr Michael Brennan who introduced 3 speakers, 2 internal speakers:
And one external speaker:
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With special guests:
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How Learning Communities are benefiting staff and students across MTU
Tuesday January 10th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:30 DescriptionSince 2019 the TLU have launched and supported over 40 learning communities across MTU. During this session we heard from Learning Community members about who they are, what inspired them to start/join a Learning Community, what they have achieved and how others might initiate or join an existing learning community. Professor Jim O’ Mahony also spoke about how funding can be awarded and used effectively to transform teaching and learning both within and across disciplines. Presented By
Learning Community Guest Speakers
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MyCareer: Career Advice on Tap 24/7!
Tuesday January 10th, 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 Description In this session Annmarie MacFeely from Careers Services gave us an insight into the MyCareer platform. MyCareer is a state of the art, comprehensive suite of online Career Planning, Research and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Job Hunting tools which is now available to all MTU students. Annmarie showed us how MyCareer enables students to access a pocket-sized, mini–Career Advisor which they can access from their mobile phone, 24/7. We saw how students have access to a range of student friendly tools which provide support in Career Planning, Self-Assessment, CV building and Scanning, Mock Interview Practice and feedback. In addition, students can browse an extensive library of up-to-date bite sized videos, articles and tips on anything and everything to do with Careers. It’s a great resource for all MTU full time students that they can access whenever, wherever, however it suits them. Presented by
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MTU SATLE 2022-23 Funding Call - Information Session
Wednesday January 11th, 2023, 11:30 - 12:15 Description This session provided information about the distribution of funding allocated to MTU under the ‘Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education Call for 2022-23’ (SATLE 2022-23). This non-competitive fund announced by the Higher Education Authority and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NFETLHE) in August 2022 totals €6.3m, of which MTU has been allocated €437,000. The funding asks institutions to focus on innovations in education for sustainable development; digital transformation; and academic integrity. Building on the successful delivery of SATLE 2019 and SATLE 2020, MTU’s approach to the allocation of funding seeks to provide activity across all three areas through strategically targeted institution-wide activity and Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Student Engagement (TLASE) enhancement projects. Participants will hear about MTU’s funding allocation across four strands of activity, i.e.:
Full information about the national funding call can be found on the NFETLHE website . Resources |
MTU Staff CPD Opportunities related to TLASE for 2022/23
Wednesday January 11th, 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 Description Every academic year, the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) and AnSEO - The Student Engagement Office in collaboration with other departments and functions offer an important range of relevant, useful and accessible formal continuing professional development opportunities related to teaching learning, assessment and student engagement (TLASE) to MTU staff as follows:
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Digital Badges These offerings provide staff with opportunities to reflect on and identify potential changes to their practice with the ultimate aim of providing an enhanced TLASE experience for both themselves and students. The purpose of this session was to provide more information about each of the above programmes and to provide participants with it’s an opportunity in some cases to hear from previous participants in terms of what they learned and how it has impacted on their practice. Presented by
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Enabling transitions to MTU: Reflections on the autistic experience
Thursday January 12th, 2023, 09:30 - 10:00 Description In Ireland, it is estimated that 1 in 100 people are autistic. In the UK 1 in 7 are neurodivergent. With the number of students attending university at a record high, the awareness of autism and neurodiversity is timely. In 2019, as part of the National Access Plan, the Disability Support Service (DSS), MTU Cork Campuses, started the Enabling Transitions Project focusing on the participation needs of autistic students within MTU, with a view to informing ideas and practices within the higher education community. This session explored:
In addition, participants were invited to:
Presented by
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RAFT: Reimagining Assessment & Feedback Together-Looking Back & Next Steps
Thursday January 12th, 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 Description Have you been thinking there might be a different way to design your Assessment and Feedback activity? In September 2022, the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) invited 23 staff from across MTU “to get on the RAFT” and partake in a year-long, National Forum funded project to identify (and hopefully solve!) an assessment and/or feedback challenge in collaboration with their students. Funded under MTU’s allocation of the ‘Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement 2020’ (SATLE 2020) funding, this pioneering group of 23 colleagues across 14 departments took an action research approach to develop, plan, implement and evaluate 16 different assessment and feedback interventions. Activity emerged across some core themes including:
Attendees at this seminar where heard from some of these colleagues and learned what they did, how they did it and the impact this had on them and their students. Presented by
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Re-Connect – Digital Habits, Problematic Internet Use & Habit Redesign
Friday January 13th, 2023, 09:00 - 11:00 Description Students need to use the internet to support their studies and are a group identified with low wellbeing and high loneliness. Re-Connect is a workshop that has been developed in MTU in response to research findings that highlight difficulties caused by problematic internet use for students. The workshop is being rolled out in MTU and aims to support students in developing awareness of their internet use and its affects. The workshop also enables students with tools which can help to develop healthy internet habits or redesign habits that are causing them problems. The workshop to date has got excellent feedback from staff and student participants and aligns exactly with the government strategy for healthy campuses. Student problematic internet use can be addressed in a way that few other issues affecting health and wellbeing are. The workshop has been developed to address a student need as evidenced by research, it is a university cross collaboration, developed with student input, honed with professional expertise empowers students to redesign those habits for wellbeing and academic performance. This workshop is designed for lecturers who might want to deliver the Re-Connect workshop with their students. This workshop was delivered by Oonagh O’Brien and Catherine Murphy, who gave an overview of the Re-Connect programme, the research that drove its development and they shared resources and facilitation techniques to enable delivery of Re-Connect to student groups. Presented by:
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Giving MTU Students the EDGE Giving MTU Students the EDGE Friday January 13th, 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 Description EDGE is the new graduate development framework for MTU students that seeks to enhance student engagement, to strengthen industry relations and to further enrich our students’ immersion in society, for the benefit of the entire MTU community. EDGE provides an opportunity for MTU students to gain recognition for the life lessons they have learnt along their way to earning their degree. As students engage in new activities, or activities they are already doing, completing this award will help students step outside of their comfort zone, recognise and develop new skills, enhance their personal attributes and enable them to articulate these skills and attributes more clearly. This, in turn, will enhance graduate employability and success in life after college, giving MTU students the EDGE! In this information session, we learned:
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Being a Better Coach and Mentor: A 3-part series - Resilience Coaching 1 Friday January 13th, 2023, 13:00 - 13:45 Description This ¾ hr workshop, part 1 of a 3-part series, explored resilience coaching. Resilience is not exclusively being able to ‘bounce back’ from adversity, but rather a set of tools, exercises, activities that build resilience in a person, enabling them not just to survive, but thrive through the small and big life events. This workshop was not just for coaches or mentors, but for anyone who functions within an environment that requires a deeper level of listening i.e., teachers, lecturers, team leaders, team members, support staff, parents etc. Learning outcomes By the end of this workshop, participant’s had a broader understanding of the resilience concepts and research outlined below:
7. Specific resilience-building in the cognitive and emotional human system domains, such as
CPD credit This workshop counts towards Continued Professional Development credit contributing to a Coach/Mentor/Supervisor EMCC Global Individual Accreditation. Presented by
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