Digital Learning Dispatches

This is just a brief message wishing everyone a relaxing holiday break and happy New Year. We will be taking a break until early January. In 2015, we look forward to supporting a number of exciting initiatives, including the launch of Ireland’s first Horizon Report for Higher Education (in partnership with the Irish Learning Technology Association), hosting the annual UK/Ireland MoodleMoot, offering a National MOOC Symposium as part of a European funded project, to name a few. We also look forward to a productive year leading and contributing to several projects supported by the National Forum for the Enhanced of Teaching and Learning through the fund for Building Capacity in Digital Learning. Hopefully, 2015 will be a significant year for the future of digital learning in Ireland.

Best wishes for the holiday season

The NIDL Team

In October the National Institute for Digital Learning launched our Visiting Scholar Series and since then we have hosted three excellent presentations. Professor Grainne Conole started the series and then in December we hosted Dr Bart Rienties from the UK Open University and last week Associate Professor Steve Wheeler from Plymouth University. All three presentations make excellent viewing and if you have a spare hour or so over the next few weeks, then we highly recommend you take time to watch the three videos embedded below.

We are looking forward to hosting further visiting scholars over 2015 and information about future speakers will be posted via Twitter (@NIDL_DCU) and on our forthcoming events website. The Visiting Speaker Series is open to all comers and next year we plan to ensure some of our speakers are able to get around other parts of Ireland.