Digital Learning – Page 63 – Digital Learning Dispatches

The Teaching Enhancement Unit (TEU) is excited to be one of four university partners working on an Erasmus+ INTEGRITY project (funded under KA2 strand). The lead partner is Ilia State University, Georgia, in collaboration with 15 other Georgian universities. The other three partners include: University of Roehampton (UK); Uppsala Universiten (Sweden); and Universitaet Wien (Austria).

As part of the wider project TEU is involved in developing a resource toolkit to support academics design assessments which actively encourages academic integrity. The suite of resources currently being advanced for the toolkit includes a literature review; a set of twelve principles and related explanations; interactive glossary; self and team checklists; animated scenarios; VLE instructional resource; and a collection of case studies.

Last week project partners met in Shota Meskhia State Teaching University of Zugdidi to share progress on the project and to celebrate the project’s first anniversary. During the meeting TEU staff shared their contributions to the project; more specifically, the Literature Review and Academic Integrity Principles. In addition we shared the TEU INTEGRITY project website with all partners for review and input on other resources as they are being developed. The resources were well received and we are now in a position to further enhance the toolkit in the coming months. The two-year project commenced in October 2017 and we are ahead of target to have the final toolkit ready for piloting in Spring 2019.

The Association for Learning Technology’s (ALT) Learning Technologist of the Year Awards celebrate and reward excellent research and practice and outstanding achievement in Learning Technology. This year’s Awards and ALT conference were held at the University of Manchester, September 11th to 13th.

We are delighted to report that the Learning Portfolio Team from Dublin City University (DCU) was selected as the winner of the Learning Technologist of the Year Team Award for their support for the successful implementation of our Learning Portfolio (Loop Reflect). The Learning Portfolio platform, based on Mahara, now has over 10,000 users and is regularly used in many different contexts by staff and students across all of DCU’s faculties. The team is jointly led by Mark Glynn and Lisa Donaldson, and supported by student eterns Chloe Langan, Niamh Gurrin and Mirenda Rosenberg.

In addition to the judges choice Team award, the Learning Portfolio team was pleased and honoured to be have been selected by ALT peers for the Community Choice Award. Their success is being recognised by these two awards would not have been possible without the willingness of faculty staff to successfully innovate and implement Loop Reflect in a range of modules and programmes across the University. The above video provides a brief summary of the Learning Portfolio initiative at DCU supported by the Teaching Enhancement Unit.