Tag: Ireland

Associations, Conferences, Digital Learning, Presentations, Research

Digital Learning Symposium at Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference

This year in early April several NIDL staff was actively involved in organising a Digital Learning Research Symposium as part of the annual Educational Studies Association of Ireland (EASI) conference.

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Contributions to the Symposium included papers by Eamon Costello, Enda Donlon, Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichil and Mark Brown. Suzanne Stone also presented a paper in the main conference programme. Full details of these papers are available from the research outputs page on the NIDL website. Notably, both Enda and Eamon were elected to the Executive Committee and we look forward in the future to forging a strategic relationship with EASI with the collective goal of fostering a stronger research culture in the area of digital learning.

Associations, Conferences, Digital Learning, Policy and Strategy, Presentations

CESI Conference Comes to DCU

The 2016 Computers in Education Society of Ireland conference known as CESI was hosted at the end of February on DCU’s Glasnevin campus. The theme was “Our Digital Strategy: Making IT Matter” and the conference was opened on the first morning by DCU”s President, Professor Brian Brian MacCraith. Unknown

The opening was then followed by a keynote address by Professor Mark Brown where he challenged conference delegates to “Seize the Moment: Make the Future Extraordinary“. Mark discussed the broken promises of education technology over many waves of innovation and the importance of not underestimating the politics of educational change.

Several other DCU staff also contributed presentations and assisted with the conference organisation. Next year we hope CESI will stay at DCU but more appropriately on our St Patrick’s campus where the new Institute of Education will be located.