Keynote – Digital Learning Dispatches

You can find lots of information about November’s ICDE World Conference on Online Learning in the latest edition of the conference newsletter. Read more about our unique walking tours ending with “pedagogy in the pub” and the significance of the conference theme as we celebrate Samhain and the change of seasons. The newsletter also shares a set of principles for conference participation, which serve as a guide to delegates in order to create a really welcoming, courteous and respectful professional learning atmosphere.

Belinda Tynan.jpg If you are waiting for more information on the day/time of your presentation at the World Conference, then the newsletter provides a progress report and shares more details on the presenter guidelines and this Friday’s webinar for authors and contributors. The newsletter also profiles another plenary speaker who will focus on strength in diversity and transformative leadership for changing times. More specifically, in her keynote Professor Belinda Tynan will address the major contribution that women can make in leadership roles and this important theme then continues over a panel discussion.

The newsletter also reports a number of linked events, with the formal launch of the IUA-led project on Enhancing Digital Capacity in Teaching and Learning, and a follow up ePortfolio workshop organised by Eportfolio Ireland on Monday 11th November. The ICDE World Conference is supported by over 30 partner organisation from around the globe and this week’s newsletter acknowledges the great local support from a number of Irish professional bodies, including the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education as a valued Bronze Sponsor.

Lots more to read in this week’s conference newsletter and make sure you keep an eye out for our next issue, and of course register ASAP for this major international event as we aim to help shape the future of education for the new online and digital world.

Last week a number of NIDL staff contributed to the 12th edition of the highly successful e-Learning Summer School hosted by the Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre at Dublin Institute of Technology. This year’s event explored the question: What impact is digital culture having on higher education? Over the week approximately 40 third level educators (many from DCU funded by the NIDL) came together for a rich and varied programme, including a session on Digital Assessment by Elaine Walsh and Eloise Tan; a couple of contributions by Mark Glynn on Screencasting and the use of Moodle; and a final keynote by Mark Brown on the “Promise, Progress and Pain” of digital learning. Full credit goes to the team at DIT for organising such a valuable professional learning experience.