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Associations, Conferences, Digital Learning, Presentations

Brief Reflections on EdTech 2016 Conference

This year’s Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) conference known as EdTech 2016 (May 26-27) was held in the Law Society Education Building in Dublin. The conference theme was “ReConstituting TEL: Rising to the Challenge”, with three keynote speakers: Audrey Watters, Rhona Sharpe and Mike Feerick.

We are pleased to report that NIDL staff made a major contribution to the conference programme, with a total of around 20 presentations, short Gasta sessions and/or workshops, which equates to approximately 20% of offerings coming from Dublin City University. A full list of NIDL staff presentations is available from our list of scholarly outputs on our website. The conference was very well organised and the general consensus is that this year’s event rates as one of the best EdTech conferences in recent times. Congratulations to everyone involved in making the conference such an outstanding success.

Associations, Awards, Digital Learning, Presentations

IMS Global Learning Impact Award

In June 2016 the “Student Success Toolbox” project, funded by the National Forum, and under the leadership of Dr James Brunton, was a finalist at the IMS Global Impact Awards in Texas. Although the innovation did not win the major prize within its category the project team was successful in being presented with an Honourable Mention Award. The full list of awardees is available on the awards page of the IMS Global website and the following video provides more details about the various tools developed under the Student Success Tool project.