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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.

Digital Learning, Visiting Speakers

Visiting Scholar Series: Videos of Previous Events

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.