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Ireland’s First Google Education Summit

In March DCU supported by the NIDL hosted Ireland’s first Google Education Summit. This two day event (19th & 20 March) attracted close to 100 participants from across Education sectors and although dedicated to the use of Google apps in education, the focus was very much on teaching and learning. The President of DCU, Professor Brian MacCraith, opened the Summit followed by a brief overview by of some of the opportunities available to digital age teachers and learners Professor Mark Brown. After the success of this year’s Summit we are already discussing with Google how we can support an even better and bigger event in 2016. Special thanks to Dr Mark Glynn, Alan Crean and our Information Systems Services (IIS) team for their leadership leading up to and over the two days of the Summit.

Awards

2015 Digital Media Awards

Once again this year DCU was a sponsor at Ireland’s annual Digital Media Awards. The NIDL was the named sponsor under the category of “Best in Digital Learning”. The awards were presented at a Gala Dinner on February 20th in Dublin. This year’s winner was Canavan Byrne for their work in the area of Early Childhood Education, with the silver and bronze awards going to SPG App Training and The Educational Company of Ireland. We congratulate everyone involved in these awards and hope to continue our association with this event in 2016.