Atlantic TU DigitalEd22 Conference, May 4-6

The ATU DigitalEd22 Conference took place through hybrid delivery and incorporated both virtual and on-site sessions for all ATU staff and partners, and the wider higher education sector in Ireland. Over 300 participants engaged with 40 sessions across the three days.

Dr Carina Ginty, Coference Chair said: "The DigitalEd22 conference was quite timely, as we emerged from COVID and remote teaching and learning. It demonstrated how we have digitally transformed, as we are now a new technological university. Over 40 digital transformation stories were presented across the three days and the sessions covered a wide variety of themes including: assessment transformation, academic integrity, students as partners, digital badges, ePortfolios for employability, online and flexible learning course design, student engagement, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and technology enhanced learning tools. ”

International keynote addresses included: Dr Tony Bates, an author of eleven books in digital learning; Professor Meg Benke from the State University of New York (SUNY), Empire State College; Professor Phil Dawson from CRADLE at Deakin University Australia, a leading researcher in the area of academic integrity; and award winning higher education educators in digital learning, Sue Beckingham and Sheila McNeill from the UK.

Parallel conference sessions included contributions from a wide range of disciplines including educators and students from across the ATU and Microsoft Education. The sessions explored various topics such as teaching and learning experiences during the pandemic, assessment in the digital world, the digital transformation developments, and lessons learned from the ATU DigitalEd book of case studies, published in 2021.

The annual DigitalEd conference is organised by the ATU Teaching and Learning Office team in Galway City in collaboration with ATU colleagues across eight campuses.