centre for academic practice and elearning

University of DublinTrinity College


Centre for Academic Practice

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Centre for Academic Practice and eLearning

An Introductory Overview

Dr Ciara O’FarrellCAPSL

September2011







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established 2003

to assist the College in developing a strong

and integrated framework for supporting

best academic practice and the highest

quality of student learning







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Academic Practice

Enable academic development

for teaching, research, and

academic managementeLearningAssist academic staff

in the design and development of e-learning

CAPSL







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Academic Practice

• Assist College in developing and delivering strategic policy in teaching & learning

• Provide professional development support to academic staff in teaching & learning, research, and academic management

• Support postgraduates and part-time tutors in their diverse teaching roles across the College

• M.ed in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (with School of Education)







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Services

Workshops and shortcourses

Lunchtime seminars

External speakers

Educational research anddevelopment

National and internationalprojects andcollaborations

Presentation Skills

(13th October)

for example.







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Teaching & Supporting Learning Module for Postgraduates who Teach

Two-part development programme for postgraduate teaching assistants.







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Part I: Introduction to Teaching & Supporting Learning

This is a one day foundation course designed for postgraduates new to teaching or considering taking on a teaching role.

Some Schools expect all their teaching assistants to attend this course if they are going to be tutoring, demonstrating or running tutorials for the first time.

26th, 29th and 30th September: fully booked

Next sessions: January 2012 (contact Jade Barrett at CAPSL)







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Part II: Teaching & Supporting Learning

This is a short, structured credit-bearing module aimed at postgraduate teaching assistants that want to further develop their teaching practice and understanding of student learning.

Sessions are held throughout the term and participants are expected to create a portfolio of evidence of their teaching practices.

Supervisor support + 2 hours concurrent teaching needed

For any queries please contact [email protected] or phone 896 3601 (next available module: Hilary term, 2012)







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Module Learning OutcomesOn successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

• Design, deliver and evaluate a small or large group session to enable student learning e.g. a tutorial, demonstration, field trip, seminar or lecture;

• Engage with and reflect on various sources of evidence and scholarship to evaluate and improve their teaching practice;

• Demonstrate critical reflection on personal teaching practice within their disciplinary contexts;

• Complete a personal teaching portfolio which may assist them in future teaching and employment opportunities;

• Devise appropriate strategies for further professional development of their teaching practice.







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M.Ed Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

This strand of the Masters in Education is designed for academics teaching in higher education in order to develop a critical understanding of the theory and practice of pedagogy and the scholarship of learning and teaching in higher education. Students will be involved in practice focused workshops and seminars that address both critical and theoretical studies of pedagogy and practice in higher education.Components Include:

• Traditions, contexts and pedagogy• Designing curriculum, assessing and supervising in higher education• Reflecting on practice in learning and teaching • Linking teaching and research within and beyond the disciplines

The course has a taught component and a dissertation. The duration will be

three years part-time, with an exit point at the end of the second year leading to the award of a Postgraduate Diploma.







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Founded in 1999:

empowering academic and college staff in research,

instigation, and development of educational

innovations in student learning and university

teaching with new media and technology.

eLearning







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CLT Activities

• eLearning Planning• eLearning Content Design• Learning Technologies• eAssessment• Blended Learning• Simulations for Learning

• Enterprise Ireland- funded ADAPT Project

• National Digital Learning Repository

• Online collaboration & Research environments

• Student Learning Environments

• WebCT/Blackboard (limited pilot of Moodle)







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• http://www.tcd.ie/CAPSL/

centre for academic practice and elearning

Documents

future teaching

teaching practices

personal teaching practice

personal teaching portfolio

diverse teaching roles

scholarship of learning

practice of pedagogy

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