Digital Badges
A Digital Badge is a quality-assured form of recognition for a body of practice-based learning carried out in a 20-25 hour mini-course.
The Learning Teaching Assessment (LTA) team, in partnership with colleagues across the University, will offer a suite of Digital Badges to staff in TU Dublin throughout the academic year.
Some Digital Badges associated with TU Dublin mini-courses are awarded by TU Dublin, and some are awarded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Digital Badges do not have any associated ECTS credits or National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level.
Find out more about TU Dublin's digital badges for teaching and learning below.
Typically, Digital Badge mini-courses will require participants to:
- Attend 4-5 one-hour sessions, usually held online, and usually during lunch (1-2pm).
- Participate in three one-hour triad meetings, through which they will engage with colleagues from across the University who are also working towards the same Digital Badge.
- Engage with learning materials made available on Brightspace.
- Complete a mini-assessment to provide evidence of having met the learning outcomes. Note that detailed feedback post-assessment is not typically provided by the Digital Badge facilitators, but participants can request a follow-up consultation to discuss their assessment, if they wish.
Currently, the Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) team offers the following mini-courses:
- Digital Badge in GenAI for Teaching and Learning. This mini-course is offered by LTA in partnership with colleagues from the School of Computer Science and Library Services.
- Digital Badge in Understanding University Teaching and Learning. This mini-course introduces staff who are not currently in lecturing roles (e.g. tutor demonstrators, professional services staff etc.) to the foundational principles, language, and practices of learning and teaching in higher education.
National Open Courses
A series of Open Courses in teaching and learning leading to digital badges are offered via the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL) within the curriculum.
As part of the TOGETHERNESS Erasmus+ project, in which TU Dublin is a participant, Université Libre de Bruxelles is facilitating two digital badges:
- Understanding Community Engaged Research and Learning (CERL)
- Planning Community Engaged Research and Learning
Find out more about the badges and apply.
The schedule for LTA Digital Badges the current academic year, and links to apply for the LTA Digital Badges as well as other LTA programmes, are available in the Professional Development Calendar.