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#Openteach book launch

Posted on June 18, 2021September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

We invite you to join us at the launch event for the #Openteach: professional development for open online educators open online book by Orna Farrell, James Brunton, Caitriona Ni She, and Eamon Costello.  In this book we aim to share the knowledge, resources and research generated by the #Openteach project, which aimed to create an…

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Posted on March 11, 2021September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

#Openteach the open textbook, published on the Pressbooks platform!

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#Openteach blog series #15: The Final Countdown

Posted on May 14, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr Orna Farrell, PI #Openteach project, assistant professor Dcu connected This is the final post in our #Openteach blog series…”the final countdown” in the words of 80s pop sensation Europe! The blog series has been a great way to capture and document the thoughts, feelings and experiences of the participants and facilitators of the…

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#Openteach blog series #14: The student perspective, Sam’s reflection

Posted on May 11, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Samantha Trevaskis, DCU Connected student, #Openteach project team member When I was first approached by Orna to be the student advisor on the #Openteach project, I must admit my initial thoughts were centred on the opportunity it would provide me to network. However, I had just started my fourth year as a Distance Learner….

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#Openteach blog series #13: Caitriona’s reflections on the project

Posted on April 30, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Caitriona Ni She, #Openteach learning designer My first encounter with the #openteach course was well over a year ago when I was interviewed for, and subsequently offered, the job of the learning designer for the project. My first task was to carry out a literature review of online teaching with the aim of finding…

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#Openteach blog series #12: #OpenLearn: How many headsets must a man put on before you can call him a man?

Posted on April 27, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr Eamon Costello, Head of Open Education, DCU. #OpenLearn: How many headsets must a man put on before you can call him a man? Image by vanleuven0 from Pixabay  One of the nice side-effects of my job is that I get to help people. Someone might point out, that as an educator, my job…

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#Openteach blog series #11: Online or Face to Face, that is the question!

Posted on April 23, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr Anne Morrisey, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, DCU. Thanks to taking the OpenTeach course, I was introduced to new ways of teaching online that I may not otherwise have known about. The timing of the course was excellent as there are three weeks of semester left when the course began,…

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#Openteach blog series #10: ‘I’m Smiling here’ When the participants become facilitators

Posted on April 22, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr Sinead Eccles, #Openteach Facilitator, Psychology online tutor-DCU Connected Maintaining Social Presence and managing big crowds As one of the Units in the #Openteach course was Social Presence, we as course facilitators knew that we would have to maintain our Social Presence whilst managing a big crowd of 400+.    Forums are designed to encourage…

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#Openteach blog series #9: Reflections on the #Openteach course

Posted on April 21, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr Tracey Harrington, Lecturer in Children’s and General Nursing, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, DCU. This is about my experience completing the OpenTeach course. And thank you Orna for asking me to do this!  I love technology and I am always looking at ways to keep the students actively involved and interested….

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#Openteach blog series #8: Michael and the curious case of the online classroom

Posted on April 20, 2020September 23, 2022 by Orna Farrell

By Dr James Brunton, #Openteach facilitator, Chair- DCU Connected Psychology Reflecting back on the #openteach course, it is easy for me to identify my favourite aspect of the course. My favourite aspect of the course was using the ABC learning design framework in a team to collaboratively come up with the basic idea of having…

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