AISHE

Dear AISHE Community,

Please find some items of interest below. If you become aware of any items that you would like considered for circulation next month, please contact info@aishe.org.

Calls for Papers

AISHE-J Special Issue on Student Engagement and Partnership in Ireland
The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J) and the National Student Engagement Programme (NStEP) are delighted to announce a call for contributions to a Special Issue on ‘Student Engagement and Partnership in Ireland’. Details are over on AISHE-J.

Past Events to View

AISHE Executive member Bernie Brereton delivered a keynote entitled “Education and Multiculturalism in an Ongoing Period of Turbulence: How a Sociology of Education Approach Can and Should Make a Positive Impact” at the Education and the Challenges of a Multicultural World conference. Bernie’s keynote can be watched on the recording here  https://www.facebook.com/apswarszawa/videos/1055633388236692/:
You can skip ahead to Bernie’s keynote at about 47 minutes in (or, about -6h 50m left).

Upcoming Events

July 2021

Next steps for Open Access
Morning, Friday, 9^th July 2021
Book Online | Live Agenda | CPD certified | Sponsorship |

June 2021
Policy Forum for Northern Ireland keynote seminar 
Next steps for skills and apprenticeships in Northern Ireland
Morning, Thursday, 24^th June 2021
Book Online | Live Agenda | CPD certified | Sponsorship |

May 2021
Deepening stakeholder involvement in policy making – learning from the COVID-19 response, streamlining processes, widening the evidence base, and improving communication
Morning, Friday, 21^st May 2021 
Book Online | Live Agenda | CPD certified | Sponsorship |

Gateway to Digital Assessment

Academic Practice at Trinity are delighted to announce the launch of a new online hub for staff and students:  Gateway to Digital Assessment which aims to develop a shared understanding of digital assessment between staff and students.  With a focus on pedagogy, Gateway contains a wealth of resources for staff and students including:

 For Staff:

• Research-informed pedagogical approaches to the design and facilitation of digital assessment.
• Resources on a wide range of digital assessment types.
• Voices from the disciplines: staff experiences of designing digital assessments.
• Student perspectives on their experience of digital assessment approaches.
• Examples of digital assessment in practice.

For Students:

• Focus on assessment literacy, helping students to understand the nature and purposes of assessment.
• Resources on different digital assessment types—written for students, by students.
• Real-life examples of digital assessment in the disciplines.
• Key considerations when preparing for digital assessment/exams. 
• Student perspectives on their experience of digital assessment approaches.

As part of Gateway, Academic Practice is also launching InspirED, an Academic Practice Blog, and  Coffee & Cobblestones, an Academic Practice Podcast.

Find out more at Gateway to Digital Assessment and please share with your students.

Join the conversation at #Gateway2DigAssess.

Kind regards,
The AISHE committee

The European Sociological Association Research Network 10 – Sociology of Education – in association with Dundalk Institute of Technology and the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin is delighted to host:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Inclusive Education and Society in a Time of Change: Theories, Policies and Practices

This conference will take place as a webinar on Thursday 20^th August and Friday 21^st August from 9am to 2pm.

Please register here for free: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CNrSKZoBQL2E8ho1sUDc1g

Topics covered include:

1.Gender and Teacher Education
2. Migration, Education and Belonging
3. Inclusive Practices in Higher Education

Keynotes by Professor João Sebastião (University Institute of Lisbon) and Professor Louise Archer (University College London).

Full conference programme is available here.

Synopsis:

Inclusive education addresses and responds to the diversity of needs of learners and involves removing barriers so that each learner will be enabled to achieve the maximum benefit from his/her education and training in a primary, secondary or tertiary education context. Important progress has been made by schools, curriculum developers, educational leaders and governments to develop inclusive educational systems, policies and practices addressing the needs of learners from different cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds and those with learning disabilities. However, countries differ in their levels of inclusivity and there are also important within-country differences regarding individual groups and learners in society. In addition, the current Brexit deliberations also challenge inclusivity and access to education and funding opportunities. Inclusive curricula and educational approaches are likely to lead to a sense of community and belonging amongst children/students/adults, and foster participation and active engagement which in turn can enhance educational attainment. This conference aims to explore all issues related to inclusive education in the broadest sense including education for migrant and refugee children/students/adults, as well as education for children/students/adults with disabilities. Contributions focus on all education phases (pre-school/ primary/secondary/higher education).

Dear AISHE Community,

We hope that as we all wrap up 2019 you are looking forward to some time off!

The AISHE 2019 AGM will be held on Thursday November 28, 2019 at 14.30 in Room 1.32 of the TCD School of Nursing & Midwifery on D’Olier Street in Dublin. All members are welcome to attend.

Please find some items of interest below. If you become aware of any items that you would like considered for circulation next month, please contact info@aishe.org.

Events

• Launch of the Ireland ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) Chapter. 11th December, UCD School of Computer Science. SIGCSEire.acm.org.
• International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy, 13th December, University of Limerick. www.icep.ie. 

Calls for contributions

• International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Binnenial Conference15-18 June 2020, Zurich. 2nd call deadline for submissions: 3rd February 2020.  For further information see http://iced2020.ch/

Contribute to research

• Eportfolio Ireland would like to invite you to participate in their national survey of eportfolio practice, which aims to provide a landscape view of eportfolio practices and technologies across Irish Higher Education Institutes. They would be very grateful for your participation in this research. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemQ84Uue58daTmicAp3lU-egLu1wiiIfMLLra9iGOesGrSQA/viewform?usp=sf_link

The AISHE committee

Dear AISHE Community,

Please find some items of interest below. If you become aware of any items that you would like considered for circulation next month, please contact info@aishe.org.

Conferences/Calls for Papers

• EdTech 2019, Dundalk Institute of Technology, May 30th-31st this year.  The call for papers is now open and the deadline is 27th March.  See http://ilta.ie/project/edtech-2019/
• 11th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 1st-3rd July, Mallorca.  Call for papers is open and deadline is 21st March.  See https://iated.org/edulearn/online_submission
• World Conference on Online Learning, Dublin 3rd-7th November.  Call for papers is open and the deadline is 1st April.  See https://wcol2019.ie/

Call for chapter proposals

• Proposals for chapters sought for an upcoming publication – Evidence-Based Faculty Development Through the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning.  See  https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3866

Upcoming events

• Aligning Learning and Teaching Across the Technology Sector, Dublin, 13th March, 10-1. Invited Speaker:  Professor Sally Brown – Exploring fellowship schemes. This seminar is supported by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and THEA.
• Promoting 21st century learning: The use of technology to enhance problem-design, collaboration, feedback and assessment in PBL. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 17th May. Keynote speaker: Professor Woei Hung To register: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/transforming-problem-based-learning-with-technology-21st-century-learning-tickets-53543145991?ref=estw
  This seminar is supported by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning

Kind regards,

The AISHE committee

Dear AISHE Community,

Happy New Year! Please find some items of interest below. If you become aware of any items that you would like considered for circulation next month, please contact info@aishe.org.
 

Calls for papers

• EuroSOTL, Bilbao, 13-14 June.  Deadline for submissions 20^th January 2019.  For further detail see https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/eurosotl-2019/call-for-papers
• European First Year Experience Conference, Cork IT, 16-18th June 2019. Deadline for submissions 23^rd January 2019, see http://www.efye2019.ie/papers
• Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference, Manchester, 26-27 June 2019. Deadline for submissions – 19^th January 2019.  For further details see  https://aheconference.com/presentation-formats/

Calls for chapter proposals

• Humanizing Higher Education: https://www.hetl.org/emerald-humanizing-education-submission-form/ Deadline: 15th January, 2019.
• Advances in Library Practices in Higher Education: https://www.hetl.org/emerald-library-practices-education-submission-form/  Deadline 16th January 2019

Upcoming events.

• Full list of this year’s National Forum seminars is here https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/NF_2018_Seminar_Series_Schedule.pdf

Kind regards,

The AISHE committee