Archive
Missed a session or want to revisit a topic?
Here you’ll find a listing of our previous workshops and events, some of which may have downloadable resources.
From practical teaching strategies to thought-provoking discussions on emerging topics in higher education, these sessions are a valuable resource for continued learning and inspiration.
Browse our YouTube channel to see recordings of some of our past events.
2024-25
Date and Time: Tuesday 10th September from 14:00 – 16:00 or Thursday 12th September from 10:00 – 12:00
Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Facilitators: Dr Caitríona Ní Shé and Dr Ana Schalk
Embarking on a career as a teaching academic in a new university can be challenging. This workshop provides an opportunity for new academic staff to join a supportive, collaborative teaching community at Trinity and connect with academic colleagues across the disciplines, supported by educational experts in the Centre for Academic Practice.
This workshop will support participants to:
- reflect on the characteristics of quality teaching;
- design an effective session plan;
- explore strategies for enhancing student engagement in learning;
- consider the purpose of formative and summative assessment.
Date: 8th October 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Facilitator: Dr Ana Schalk
The aim of a brown bag lunch event is to provide a welcoming, informal, safe, and inclusive space to share, and learn from, each other's experiences.
In this session, you will be invited to share how you are planning to embed GenAI into your teaching practice. You will also get an opportunity to discuss your experiences and concerns regarding GenAI and share ideas for how to effectively and responsibly use GenAI to enhance student learning.
And of course, it will be at lunchtime, so bring your lunch! Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Date: Wednesday 16th October 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30 Online
Facilitators: Dr Caitríona Ní Shé & Dr Claire McAvinia
Assessment design plays a crucial role in promoting and upholding academic integrity. Robust assessment design ensures fair evaluation, discourages cheating, promotes learning and individual accountability, ensures transparency and consistency, and promotes good curriculum design; thus, it contributes to a positive academic culture based on academic integrity principles. Within Trinity a number of assessment redesigns have been taking place particularly in light of GenAI.
In this session, we will explore the principles and methods of designing effective assessment strategies and discuss, amongst colleagues, how these can be applied in different contexts. A number of strategies that have been adopted by teaching staff at Trinity will be presented during the session.
This session will support you to:
- understand the principles and methods of designing effective assessment strategies
- discuss, amongst colleagues, how these can be applied in different contexts.
- explore strategies that have been adopted by teaching staff at Trinity, which will be presented during the session
Date: Starts Wednesday 23rd October 2024 (online)
Facilitators: Centre for Academic Practice: Dr Pauline Rooney, Dr Caitríona Ní Shé and Dr Ana Schalk; Dublin City University: Dr Martina Crehan; University of Limerick: Dr Mary Fitzpatrick
Funded by the National Forum, the module is designed to support participants to understand how Generative Artificial Intelligence can be used ethically and responsibly to support and enhance teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. Participants will be supported to develop a plan for using GenAI to enhance teaching and learning within their own disciplinary contexts.
Those who complete the module will be awarded a Digital Badge issued by the National Forum for Teaching and Learning.
Module structure
- This is a six-week module beginning Wednesday 23rd October 2024. (online)
- Four synchronous online tutorials on November 6th, the 13th, the 20th, and December 11th (all Wednesdays from 12:00 to 13.00) will promote collaboration, critical reflection, peer work, and network-building among participants.
Learning outcomes
Completion of this module will support you to:
- understand the terminology used around GenAI, with a particular focus on its use within higher education;
- evaluate the use of GenAI in teaching, learning and assessment with a focus on ‘what, why and how’;
- explore and reflect on pedagogical practices within the disciplines which incorporate the use of GenAI;
- design and embed GenAI within your teaching, learning and assessment practice.
Monday 14th October - Friday 18th October 2024
Please see below to view events that ran as part of Academic Integrity week 2024.
- Panel Discussion - Academic Integrity in a Generative Artificial Intelligence Environment
- Publishing and Promoting your Research (In-person event for students).
- Understanding Plagiarism and the Art of Referencing (In-person event for students).
- Referencing and Plagiarism for Postgradute AHSS Students (In-person event for students).
- EndNote for Beginners (In-person event for students).
- Navigating Academic Integrity and Misconduct Procedures (In-person event for students).
- Navigating Academic Integrity and Misconduct Procedures (for staff)
- Strengthening Academic Integrity Through Effective Assessment Design in the Age of GenAI (online event for staff)
- Essay Writing (In-person event for students).
- Reading and Notemaking for UG students (In-person event for students).
- Skills for Academic Success (In-person event for students).
- Demystifying GenAI: A Conversation.
- Applying GenAI: A Conversation (In-person event for students).
- Referencing and Plagiarism for Postgradute STEM Students
- Panel Discussion - Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Co-Creation Process with Opening address from Provost Linda Doyle
Date: Monday 9th December 2024
Time:11:00-12:30
Venue:Online (Zoom)
Facilitator: Dr Claire McAvinia
A Teaching Philosophy Statement captures your personal approach to teaching and student learning clearly and succinctly. It explains the values and goals underpinning your practice as an educator, and identifies your goals for the further development of practice in the future. Teaching Philosophy Statements can be written with specific purposes in mind (for example, teaching awards or for continuing professional development) or as a formative reflection on practice.
The aims of this online workshop are:
- to ​develop your understanding of Teaching Philosophy Statements
- to identify the features of an effective Teaching Philosophy Statement
- to contextualise the activity of articulating a Statement in your practice
- to begin drafting your own Teaching Philosophy Statement.
Date: 23rd January 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Online - Zoom
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Open Publication “Using GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Universities”, a transformative open resource created through a collective vision of seven Irish universities.
This open resource features two inspirational reflective pieces that serve as a guiding frame for 31 innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices across diverse disciplines. Its goals are to:
- Promote AI Literacy
- Inspire new teaching, learning and assessment approaches
- Spark innovation across disciplines
We hope this resource empowers educators to support and help to shape the future of education.
Dr Pauline Rooney (Editor), Trinity College Dublin; Dr Ana Elena Schalk (Editor), Trinity College Dublin; Dr Martina Crehan, Dublin City University (Co-Editor); Dr Mary Fitzpatrick, University of Limerick (Co-Editor); Ms Leone Gately, University College Dublin (Co-editor); Dr Loretta Goff, University College Cork (Co-Editor); Dr Iain Mac Labhrainn, University of Galway (Co-Editor); Dr Caitriona Ní Shé, Trinity College Dublin (Co-Editor); Ms Lisa O'Regan, Maynooth University (Co-Editor); Dr Sarah Thelen, University College Cork (Co-Editor); Dr Leigh Wolf, University College Dublin (Co-Editor).
Authors (in order as the publication):
Kevin O’Rourke, Billy Kelly, Robert Gillanders, Shadi Karazi, Silvia Rocchetta, Gary Sinclair, Suzanne Stone, Shane McLoughlin, Gillian Barrett, Marie Ryan, Ciara Fitzgerald, Kisito F. Nzembayie, Alan Smeaton, Naomi McAreavey, Simon Hewitt, Adrian Kirwan, Joel Walmsley, João Costa, João Mota, Liam Murray, Frances McCormack, Paola Rivetti, David O’Mullane, Rituparna Banerjee, Tracey Keogh, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Carlos Bruen, Amanda Drury, Jack McGoldrick, Ronan Fleming, Cuisle Forde, Susan Joyce, Stephanie Chen, Virginia Conrick, Breeda Herlihy, Ronan Madden, Ben Williamson, Jonathan Dukes, Béibhinn Nic Ruairí, Leah Ridgway, Paul Cuffe, James O’Donnell, Jiajing Li, Anshu Mukherjee, Angélica Rísquez, David Moloney, Erin King, Robert Dalton, Iain MacLaren, Michelle Breen, Margaret Phelan, David Moloney, Angélica Rísquez, Mary Claire Kennedy, Fionn McGrath, Silvia Benini, Treasa Cunneen, Caitríona Ní Shé, Ana Elena Schalk.
Date and Time: Tuesday 18th February from 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Facilitators: Dr Caitríona Ní Shé and Dr Claire McAvinia
Embarking on a career as a teaching academic in a new university can be challenging. This workshop provides an opportunity for new academic staff to join a supportive, collaborative teaching community at Trinity and connect with academic colleagues across the disciplines, supported by educational experts in the Centre for Academic Practice.
This workshop will support participants to:
- reflect on the characteristics of quality teaching;
- design an effective session plan;
- explore strategies for enhancing student engagement in learning;
- consider the purpose of formative and summative assessment.
Date: Wednesday 12th February 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place
Facilitator: Dr Ana Schalk
We are inviting all teaching staff who are interested in exploring, or have already explored, the use of GenAI to support student learning, to join us in the Centre for Academic Practice for a brown bag lunch on Wednesday the 12th of February to share our experiences.
As you may know, the idea of a brown bag lunch event is to provide a welcoming, informal, safe, and inclusive space to share, and learn from, each other's experiences.
And of course, it will be at lunchtime, bring your lunch! Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Date: Monday 10th March 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Online: Zoom
Facilitator: Dr Mark Kelly, National Forum
In this webinar, we welcome Guest Speaker Dr Mark Kelly, National Policy Advisor on Education for Sustainable Development of the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, who is working at national level on the development of policy and practice in ESD. Mark will tell us more about the national picture and share the work of the National Forum in this space. We will also have time for questions and discussion.
Date: Wednesday 12th March 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Facilitator: Dr Norah Campbell
The purpose of this event is to provide past participants of the module, “Enacting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Trinity”, with an opportunity to share their reflections on their module experience and to consider how they might begin to embed ESD within programmes or modules within their own discipline, with the support of members of the ESD team.
Dr Norah Campbell of the Trinity Business School will share the TBS team’s experience of adapting materials to their context, and delivery of the first "Enacting Sustainable Development” module to 600 first year business students. A Q&A session with Norah will follow.
Following this we will have a ‘World Cafe’ style event where participants will have the opportunity to discuss key questions such as:
- What are your current goals and objectives in relation to embedding ESD within your own practice?
- What challenges are you facing in achieving these goals?
- What type of support or resources would be most helpful to you?
- How can the ESD team and this community assist you in achieving your goals?
This will be followed by a group sharing exercise whereby the ESD team will support you to plan future actions.
Finally, Certificates of Completion will be presented to eligible participants in the professional development module “Enacting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Trinity” in 2024.
Invitation only event.
Date: Monday 14th April 2025
Time:12:00 – 13:00
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Facilitator: Dr Claire McAvinia
The purpose of this webinar is to introduce participants to resources and ideas that help you to get started with thinking about, and implementing, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in your practice.
We will introduce key terms to help you navigate ESD resources and then provide a detailed overview of the Centre for Academic Practice ESD Resource Hub. There will be opportunities to discuss questions you have about how and where to start, and what kinds of small changes are possible in a short to medium term plan.
By the end of this session, participants will have:
- Developed an understanding of key terms used in a range of ESD resources (for example, the ESD themes and ESD competencies);
- Become familiar with the Centre for Academic Practice ESD Resource Hub, its sequence of resources, and helpful starting points;
- Identified one or two actions they can take to progress their thinking and planning for ESD over the next few months.
Dates and Times: Friday 9th May, 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Online
Facilitators: Dr Cicely Roche (Pharmacy and Academic Practice), Dr John Gallagher (Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering), Dr Jonathan Hodgers (Music), and Dr Caitríona Ní Shé(Academic Practice)
The ESD Team/Centre for Academic Practice invite you to join the HEA/National Forum ESD Spotlight Webinar featuring our work at Trinity on Friday 9th May, 1-2pm (online).
The webinar will feature contributions from a range of speakers including Dr Cicely Roche (Pharmacy and Academic Practice), Dr John Gallagher (Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering), Dr Jonathan Hodgers (Music), and Dr Caitríona Ní Shé (Academic Practice) about their work in relation to ESD at Trinity.
This is an ideal opportunity to catch up on what has been happening both at university and disciplinary levels in recent months.
You may also be interested in viewing and listening to previous webinars in this national series, all of which are available on the HEA National Forum's website.
We look forward to seeing you online.
ESD Team/Centre for Academic Practice
On Wednesday 28th May 2025, we hosted our Teaching & Learning Symposium 2025, bringing together colleagues from across Trinity to explore the theme of SustAIning Educational Innovation in the age of AI. A great day of thoughtful reflection, energising discussion and collaboration!