ATU DigitalEd23 Conference

The third annual DigitalEd Conference took place on 17 May and was hosted by ATU Galway city. The ATU N-TUTORR Project Team and ATU Teaching and Learning Centre organised the event and over 400 participants engaged with 19 sessions and showcases from all N-TUTORR partners, including the five technological universities - ATU, MTU, SETU, TUS, TU Dublin and two institutes of technology - DKIT and IADT. The sessions focussed on a variety of teaching and learning themes including:

• Digital Transformation in Teaching & Learning

• Students as Partners in Teaching & Learning

• Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

ATU President Dr Orla Flynn opened the conference, which was followed by a keynote address from Neil Mosely, an education consultant and learning designer who specialises in digital, online and distance learning.

Neil’s keynote focussed on how higher education might orient itself and navigate these times of digital and teaching transformation, exploring key relationships between digital technologies and education, as well as anchors of effective teaching practices and what we know about learning.

Professor Gilly Salmon, CEO and Principal Consultant for Education Alchemists Ltd, delivered a keynote which explored digital transformation and the sustainability of learning design. She also spoke on how educators can achieve more and longer with less by deploying learning design thinking, tools, techniques, and developments.

The organising team wish to thank all the presenters from across the technological university and institute of technology sector who shared their teaching and learning experiences at DigitalEd23.

To view the recordings, graphic illustrations and session outputs from the conference please click here. To learn more about N-TUTORR at ATU please click here

The ATU DigitalEd23 Conference organising team included: DigitalEd Conference Chair (Dr Carina Ginty); Jessica Duffy (Conference Coordinator); Dr Kevin Cunningham, Orla Skehill, Dr Sean Daffy, Emma McDonald, Olga Vaughan, Pat Heffernan, Ivan Marcos and Crowd Comms Media Agency (DigitalEd Hybrid management team) and DigitalEd Session Chairs, Dr Trevor Prendergast (TUS), Dr Sharon Flynn (THEA), Dr Ronan Bree (DKIT), Noreen Henry (ATU).

Some of our ATU Galway-Mayo colleagues recently hiked the Bangor Trail. The north Mayo trail (39km) starts in Bangor Erris and ends at the Brogan Carroll Bothy at Letterkeen near Newport. It takes approximately 11 hours to complete.

The trail follows an ancient drover path, which is believed to have originated during the Iron Age. As you walk, you’ll come across remnants of past human habitation, including ruins that predate the Great Famine.

Two ATU graduates Georgia McMillian and Ged Dowling guided the hike. To find out more about the hike please click here.