Month: April 2020

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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….

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…

By Gennady Egorov, Director of Institute of Distance Learning, St.Tikhon’s University, Moscow I have always liked the way my Irish colleagues approach education development and teacher support. I also have a special relationship with DCU, so when #OpenTeach was announced I decided to join, especially since I expected to have some free time. When the…

By Sandra Flynn Module Leader at Centre for Project Management, University of Limerick  I first came across OpenTeach in October 2019 as I browsed through the World Conference on Online Learning programme scheduled to take place in Dublin early in November. I knew that if I were to attend it would only be for one…

By Carrie Archer, Professional Development Coordinator/TEL Mentor Further Education and Training Development Unit, City of Dublin Education and Training Board I signed up to #OpenTeach for a number of reasons. Firstly, I am the newly appointed Professional Development Coordinator for the City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB) and work as a Technology Enhanced…

By Robert Hickey, Lecturer at Technological University Dublin Having just finished the OpenTeach online course “Professional Development (PD) for Open Online Educators”, it is now time for some reflection. PD has always played an important role in my professional life. Eager to learn and improve what I am doing or not doing is essential in…