Guide to Identifying and Using Digital Resources
In a digital learning environment, the ability to locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality online resources is essential for effective teaching.
This guide is designed to support you in navigating the vast landscape of digital tools and repositories, offering practical strategies for discovering reliable materials, assessing their relevance, and incorporating them into module design.
You can use this resource to enhance student engagement, improve accessibility, and enrich the overall teaching and learning experience.
There are many approved tools and technologies available to you at TU Dublin to help you create digital learning content, and to integrate learning technologies into your teaching, learning and assessment practice to engage students. Explore the resource pages below to access information and support.
ScreenPal (Video and interactive video quizzes)
Vevox (Polling, quizzing and backchannels)
Microsoft Whiteboard (Virtual whiteboard & real-time collaboration)
Adobe Podcast (Record, edit, and enhance podcast audio)
Numbas (Assessments for mathematical subjects)
LockDown Browser (A locked browser for quizzes)
Microsoft Copilot (AI assistant)
Adobe Express (Create video clips, artwork, animations, and audio)
Adobe Creative Cloud (Access the full suite of licensed Adobe products)
Other Available Software (Additional tools from Technology Services)
OER
Open Educational Resources (OER) represent a transformative shift in scholarly practice, offering openly licensed, freely accessible teaching and learning materials that allow academic staff to reimagine curriculum design with greater flexibility, equity, and innovation.
This guide directs academic staff to reputable repositories and platforms where high-quality, peer-reviewed OER can be discovered and integrated into teaching and research practices.
Library Guides
TU Dublin Library Subject Guides provide many digital resources for teaching and learning, categorised by discipline.
Case Study Bank
The Digital Education Bank in Arrow provides a space where staff at TU Dublin can record, promote and share with others case studies of the teaching and learning tools they find effective, and explain how they have integrated them into their practice.