Author: Orna Farrell

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…

By Caitriona Ni She, #Openteach project learning designer During the course, participants were asked to devise a solution to the dilemmas faced by the online educators Eimear, Míchéal and Séan. Participants responded with many different solutions. The solutions for Eimear’s dilemma are summarised in this blogpost. It seems appropriate to describe the variety of solutions…

By Dr Anne Markey,  DCU Connected Online Literature Tutor As a Literature tutor with DCU Connected, I am used to teaching online, but know that my online classes are never as dynamic as the face-to-face ones. I signed up for the course to up my game and believe the course will help me to do…

By Orna Farrell  Over the next few weeks, we will publish a series of blog posts reflecting on facilitating and participating in the first run of the #Openteach course in March 2020. The blogs will be written by the course facilitators and participants.  My highlights As the project is nearly finished, I thought I would…

On the 27th of January the #Openteach project team in the NIDL led by Dr Orna Farrell hosted a seminar about teaching online. This seminar was funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. The aim of the seminar was to explore effective online teaching practice and how to support…

The main aim of the #Openteach project is to produce, and evaluate, evidence-based open professional development for part-time online educators. In an earlier phase of the project a synthesis of the relevant literature was completed in order to identify online educator roles and the associated competencies for effective online teaching. Concurrently, we conducted a needs…

Last week the #Openteach project team gathered to take part in an ABC Learning Design workshop, led by Clare Gormley and Mark Glynn, the DCU leads in the ABC to VLE project. The aim of the workshop was to design the #Openteach professional development short online course. We found the ABC approach stimulating and engaging….