Winners of LInCS Call for funding announced!

The NDLR team have been fervently coordinating the review of all the LInCS proposals and we are delighted to announce the 13 successful applications for the 2012 NDLR LInCS Call for funding!

The standard of projects this year was incredibly high. It featured more innovative and ambitious ideas than usual – a sign that resource development in Ireland for Higher Education teaching and learning has moved beyond the usual scale of development. We will endeavour to support the unsuccessful applicants through the institutional coordinators and of course the core team.

19 Institutions are represented across the 13 successful projects showing the breadth of interest across the country. 123, 000 euro in total will be allocated to support the development of these digital resources all of which will be showcased at the NDLR Fest 2012. Congratulations to all involved we look forward to working with you over the next year!

1. Title: mCSI(Mobile: Connected Support for Inquiry). Project partners: DIT, CIT and LIT

2. Title: Using eLearning to teach eLearning – an eLearning design workshop. Project partners: TCD, NUIG, IT Carlow

3. Title: Mobile reusable learning resources for clinical assessment and technical skills training. Project Partners: UL, NUIG, UCHG

4. Title: Pick and Mix Suite: A one-stop-shop for all you need to create innovative and engaging biochemistry practicals. Project Partners: TCD, UCD, DIT

5. Title: Multidisciplinary Offshore Operations in Marine Science: A Blended Learning Approach. Project Partners: GMIT, CIT, NUIG, UCC, Marine Institute, NMCI

6. Title: Development of Undergraduate Engineering Virtual Instruments as Re-usable Learning Objects (RLOs). Project Partners: DCU, UCD, NUIM, TCD, DKIT, AIT, UCC, ITT

7. Title: Body conditioning through Group Exercise (Instructional Skills and Design) and Advanced Anatomical Analysis. Project Partners: CIT, IT Tralee and Waterford IT

8. Title: The Development of e-learning content for an Ergonomics Training Model. Project Partners: UL, UCD, UCC

9. Title: Interactive Exploration of a Rare Irish Eighteenth Century Architecture Volume. Project Partners: UL, NUI Maynooth, Irish Architectural Archive

10. Title: "Help Me from 2 to 3"– helping new students in cultural transition from second to third level.. Project Partners: UCD, NUIG, ITT, IADT, UL

11. Title: The development of e-learning tools for dentistry. Project Partners: UCC, TCD, QUB

12. Title: Generation of multimedia video resources for the pre-transition and early transition to higher education.. Project Partners: UL (CTL), DIT, UCD

13. Title: eLearn Psychological Medicine. Project partners: UCD, HSE, SVUH

On Thursday 16th June, the Teaching and Learning Centre at IT Carlow hosted its Teaching & Learning Showcase which, along with a keynote by Muiris O'Connor of the Higher Education Authority, included presentations from academics participating in NDLR local and national digital resource development projects. Congratulations to all involved. 7 new local projects were announced at the showcase.

Lead Applicant: Dara McHugh/Caroline Murphy

Title: Introduction to Excel Screencasts

School: Business & Humanities

Lead Applicant: Lorraine Galvin

Title: Getting Started with Adobe Software

School: Wexford

Lead Applicant: May Aust

Title: Early Childhood Education and Care Podcast Series

School: Business & Humanities

Lead Applicant: Susan Brennan

Title: Learning Resources for Introductory Financial Accounting

School: Business & Humanities

Lead Applicant: Brian Hunter / Shane Murray

Title: Enhance and develop student-centred learning through the medium of screencasts

School: Engineering

Lead Applicant: Dina Brazil

Title: Further development of generic and technical postgraduate learning resources

School: Science

Lead Applicant: Una Grant

Title: Learning Resources for Marketing

School: Business & Humanities

We would like to wish Dr. Terry Maguire and all of her team at ITT Tallaght warm best wishes for the 18th International Conference of Adults Learning Mathematics (ALM)

This event will be hosted by the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland in co-operation with the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), Ireland and the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning

Dates: Sunday 26th June – Wednesday 29th June 2011

Venue: Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland

Conference Theme: Conference Theme: 'Mathematical Eyes: A Bridge between Adults, the World and Mathematics'

The organisers particularly welcome contributions from members and non-members. Participants are encouraged to use mathematical eyes to highlight current issues, opportunities and challenges for adults learning mathematics in:

• the work environment
• all levels of education
• improving public awareness and communication
• supporting active citizenship.

In addition ALM's collaboration with the National Adult Literacy Agency gives participants and contributors a special opportunity to explore the important and enduring relationship between literacy and numeracy and what it means for adult mathematics education.

Tuesday 28th June will have a particular focus on Adults Mathematics Education for practitioners.

For more information please click here

Conference Title: Enhancing the Learning Experience: Learning for an Unknown Future (Barnett, 2004).

Conference Themes:
- The first year experience
- Diversity of the learner experience
- Staff development for learning / Innovation in teaching and learning

Keynote Speaker
Douglas Thomas has been a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California since 1993. He is the author or editor of five books, including his most recent work A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (with co-author John Seely Brown). During his time at USC, he has focused his research on radical cultures of learning at the intersections of technology and culture, beginning with the underground worlds of computer hackers and virus writers. He has studied the open source programming community as well as a decade long ethnographic research project of the culture learning in and around computer games.

His research has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Lounsbery Foundation, and the Annenberg Center at USC, and focuses on the transformation of learning, knowledge, education and global civic engagement in the digital age. He is founding editor of Games & Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, a quarterly international journal that aims to publish innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. His books include: Hacking Culture, a study of the cultural, social, and political dimensions of computer hacking, His current projects include Power, Play, and Performance: Studying Virtual Worlds, an examination of player culture and community in massively multiplayer online games and Play and Politics: Games, Civic Engagement, and Social Activism.

For more details:
LIN website http://www.linireland.com/

The ninth Dublin eLearning Summer School is taking place this week (20–24 June 2011) at DIT Aungier Street.

Convened under the auspices of the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance (DRH EA), this year's programme addresses the theme of "Challenging the Twenty-First Century Learner", with sessions covering everything from "Teaching in an Online Environment" (Michael Hallissy, Hibernia College) and eLearning and the Hunt Report (Richard Thorn, Director of Flexible Learning, IoTI) to Facebook in Education, iPads and a link-up with the European Distance and E-Learning Network Conference. The week-long series of talks and workshops gives academic staff from across Dublin's third-level colleges an opportunity to discuss issues relating to eLearning in their work and to exchange ideas with like-minded individuals.

This event will be live streamed. Click here

Or you can follow the event on Twitter #elss11

Click here to view further information.

From September 2011 DIT will offer certain modules from the programmes as CPD modules.
The following modules which carry 10 ECTS credits can be taken as independent stand alone modules:

Writing and Disseminating Research is a module designed to support participants in their academic writing and publishing pursuits. Participants will learn how to successfully present their work at conferences and write an article for publishing in a peer reviewed journal.

Higher Education Policy is a vast subject and this module will provide an overview of policy issues within this sector and is designed to be responsive to policy issues and current debates in any given year.

The Research Methods module will advance participants' understanding of the philosophical bases of quantitative and qualitative research approaches and promote an understanding of how research contributes to knowledge. It will equip participants to design a feasible research project through the writing of a substantive research proposal.

Click here for further information.

Or contact the programme co-ordinator: Dr. Marian Fitzmaurice  marian.fitzmaurice@dit.ie

Check out these NDLR resources!

If you have found a resource in the NDLR you really like then let us know!

Check out these fantastic Health Sciences Teaching Resources available for use and reuse in the National Digital Learning Resources Repository.

• Infection Prevention and Control
• The Virtual Pharmacy
• Clinical Assessment Tutorials
• Antihistamines
• Health and Safety in the Lab
• Mnemonics for Student Pharmacy Technicians
• Pain Relief
• Pain Relief for Children
• Patient Care For Cold Sores
• Prescription and Records Animals
• Routes of Sale for Veterinary Medicine
  

NDLR News & Events

National Events

EATAW 2011 The Role of the Student Experience in Shaping Academic Writing Development in Higher Education

29th June – 1st July University of Limerick

EATAW is a scholarly forum which seeks to bring together those involved or interested in the teaching, tutoring, research, administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe.

The next seminar series aims to stimulate debate between researchers, those engaged in policy and practice in higher education and representatives of civil society. The main speaker for the event is Professor Sir Peter Scott, Institute of Education, London who will speak about Higher Education Reform in the Atlantic Isles.

Innovation Ecosystems; a critical component of Irish Higher Education in the 21st century

Friday 1 July, Innovation Academy 3 Foster Place, College Green, Dublin 2.

This one day international symposium brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on innovation and creativity both within education and beyond.

2011 17th EUNIS Congress took place in Dublin, Ireland, 14-17 June 2011.

EDEN Annual Conference 2011 took place in Dublin 19 – 22 June.

The fourth Irish European Study Group with Industry

The 82nd European Study Group with Industry will be hosted by MACSI at the University of Limerick, Ireland, 26th June - 1st July 2011.

ESGI are week-long workshops which provide a unique opportunity for interaction between mathematicians and industry. Further information and registration can be found on the ESGI 82 website . The European Study Groups with Industry programme is an innovative and collaborative way of tackling real problems faced in leading industries. A study group is a week-long intensive problem-solving event that brings the wide ranging expertise of mathematical scientists together in a collaborative effort to solve real problems experienced by industrialists. Contact: Peg Harahan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UL.

International Conference on Engineering Education
ICEE-2011 Belfast August 21-26, 2011

International Events

CONFERENCE: ED-MEDIA 2011 : World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, 27 June 2011 to 1 July 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion &exchange of information on the research, development, & applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia &telecommunications/distance education.

CONFERENCE: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)

27 to 29 June 2011 London, United Kingdom

The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry.

EDULEARN11, the 3rd annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held in Barcelona (Spain), on the 4th, 5th and 6th of July, 2011.
This conference will be held at international level. The attendance of more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

EDULEARN11 is an International Forum for those who wish to present their projects and discuss the latest innovations and results in the field of New Technologies in Education, E-learning and methodologies applied to Education and Research.

Education in a Changing Environment 6th - 8th July 2011 Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
The University of Salford's 6th Education in a Changing Environment Conference, Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, will explore and discuss international best practice in teaching and educational research in higher education. Through themes of Social Media; Learning, Teaching and Assessment; Networking and Partnerships, the Conference will identify creative models for engagement in a shifting educational landscape.

eLearning 2.0 6 – 7 Jul 2011, London, Evans, United Kingdom

International conference exploringTechnology-Enhanced Learning and Web 2.0/Social Media technologies including Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and YouTube.

Enhanced and transformed: tales from the digital age 6 July, 2011, University of Greenwich, London

Our ninth annual conference provides an opportunity for those with experiences of using technology to enhance and transform learning to join with others around our virtual camp fire to tell their tales of this digital age.

4th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium 11 to 13 July San Jose, United States

This symposium, brought to you by Sloan-C and MERLOT, focuses on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, highlighting research, applications and best practices of important emerging technological tools.