TEU Update January 30 2025
Nominations are now open for the DCU President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, recognising the excellence, innovation and commitment of those who teach and those who support teaching at DCU. This year, the excellence in teaching awards also include, via the Graduate Studies Office, the inaugural President's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision. This award highlights and celebrates exemplary contributions in doctoral supervision and is open to nominations from both research students and staff.
Applications for the awards will close on 14 March. Details and nominations process available here.
Over the past year, we have been delighted to partner with other Irish universities on the compilation of an Open Publication on the use of GenAI in educational practice. This project, led by TCD, contains 31 examples of innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices across diverse disciplines, including 5 from DCU. Our sincere thanks and congratulations to our DCU colleagues Amanda Drury, Rob Gillanders, Gary Sinclair, Shadi Karazi, Silvia Rocchetta, Leah Ridgway, Paola Rivetti, David O' Mullane, Rituparna Banerjee, Alan Smeaton, and our former DCU colleague Suzanne Stone.
The publication highlights practice and innovation across disciplines and will be of interest to anyone reflecting on the use of GenAI in teaching, learning and assessment.
There are still a few spots remaining for people interested in completing the DCU / NFTL Digital badge.
Registration is now open using this link.
The course consists of 25 hours of learning:
- Six, weekly online sessions. These will be held on Wednesdays at 1pm from February 5th to March 19th (there is a break on February 26th)
- A reading and / or activity to complete before each session
- Participation in a peer-triad between each session to reflect on learning and collaborate on an activity, to be submitted by each participant
Finally, all participants are eligible to attend two further sessions to achieve a facilitator's badge, which will enable you to roll out the course in the future, possibly at a school or faculty level.
Please contact barry.peak@dcu.ie if you have any questions.
Registration extended until Friday 31st January.
The ECIU University Forum is a yearly networking event which this year will be held on 10th - 11th June at the University of Trento, Italy. The theme of the forum is "Innovation for Sustainable Futures". The forum is now open for participant registration until February 14th. As places are limited, a selection process will take place at each ECIU member university and you will receive a follow up email in early April to let you know if your participation is confirmed. Please note that if you submitted a session via the call for sessions, you don't need to apply via this call now as you should have already received a response from the selection committee.
