Click, Look, Innovate

One of the positive things about the recent pivot to working online has been the opportunity to welcome external guests as contributors, panel members and speakers in our programmes and teaching and learning events. As we prepared to see in the close of 2021, staff in Learning, Teaching & Assessment (formerly the LTTC), in collaboration with friends and colleagues from across the University, marked the festive season by compiling a 'Teaching & Learning Christmas Playlist' highlighting the contributions made by external guests to the work of TU Dublin in developing its T&L culture and enhancing the learning experience for students. Happy watching!

These innovations were collected from across the campus community as part of the TU Dublin IMPACT project. They were noted as being particularly transformative, had a lasting impact on both staff and students and enabled enhancement of student learning and staff teaching. Click on the headings below to access more information.

Polling: Providing opportunities for all students to engage, to determine the pace of the class, as well as to provide feedback on levels of understanding

Breakout Rooms: Providing learner-centred opportunities for students to engage both with the session content and each other

Collaborative Spaces: Enabling a range of ways to work (a)synchronously in groups from the early brainstorming of ideas, through problem-solving using predefined frameworks, to consolidating links between individual concepts or topics

Video and Multimedia: Reinforcing core concepts and promoting a deeper understanding with an effective combination of text with pictures, sound, animation and video

Pre-prepared Resources: Providing content online leaving synchronous sessions free for the lecturer to facilitate interactive sessions, perhaps using small groups

Online Lectures: Strengthening the ‘teaching presence’ in online modules and helping to make the class more dynamic

Quizzes: Checking student knowledge or comprehension as well as providing immediate feedback to both students and staff on learning

Asynchronous Practical Learning: Allowing students to inform and influence each other's learning in a positive way through practical learning activities 

Online Applied Learning Tasks: Enabling students to use technology to apply theory to practice

Reflective Writing: Encouraging students to be reflective about their own thoughts and analysis of their learning process

Individual and Group Projects: Promoting students' knowledge and skills acquisition by working for a specific period of time on an authentic, engaging, and complex situation, problem, or challenge offered by their lecturers

Virtual Learning Spaces: Facilitating inclusive student-led learning through virtaul learning activities