TU Dublin Awarded Funding For Teaching and Learning Projects
TU Dublin has been awarded €602,000 to support three institutional strategic projects under the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education 2019 fund.
The initiatives are being funded in partnership with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Funding is designed to enable the development of a strong foundation for future enhancement of teaching and learning within each institution, in line with local priorities.
Project 1: TU Dublin IMPACT: Teaching and Learning for Student Success €440,000
Five work packages are designed to encourage a discipline and context-specific approach to teaching and learning enhancement that builds on institutional strengths and distinctiveness, is informed by local pedagogical research and can be enabled through strategically aligned policy, processes and appropriate infrastructures as follows:
- Building a knowledge repository of the University’s Teaching and Learning (T&L) practices.
- Encouraging professional development through the creation of a CPD framework that recognises accredited and non-accredited learning
- Integrating T&L best practices by building on our strengths and identifying areas of development that are aligned with both the University’s T&L strategy and the T&L priorities of our partners.
- Celebrating our T&L practices by showcasing initiatives through a festival of learning
- Embedding best practices through the development of sustainable processes and infrastructure.
Project 2: TU Dublin IMPACT: Collaborative Higher Education Innovation & Learning Enhancement (Le Chéile) project €80000
This TU Dublin project recognises that teaching is not something that happens in isolation but is an activity that benefits from shared practice within an extended academic community that has a collective set of values, principles and goals. It utilises the newly developed institutional Le Chéile collaborative award process, thereby providing a potential link into the national DELTA awards. This new seed-funded professional development model recognises, nurtures and celebrates excellence in T&L within team-based teaching initiatives and in programme design that enhances the student experience;
- Support the continuous professional development of staff involved in teaching that helps to achieve identified strategic aims;
- Help promote a programme-based culture within an institution-wide engaged learning community
Project 3: TU Dublin IMPACT: Re-imagining a Multi-Disciplinary approach to programme design and development €80,000
This seed funding aims to build cross-campus institutional capacity by identifying and funding critical multi-disciplinary projects that have the potential to maximise the value of the University’s current T&L practices. Critical areas for development are to be identified from the emergent Project 1 recommendations aligned to the University’s strategic plan, T&L strategy and student experience definition developed through the Theme one project.
If you require any further information about the funding or the projects, please contact:
Dr Jen Harvey, City, Jen.harvey@tudublin.ie
Dr Larry McNutt, Blanchardstown, Larry.McNutt@TUDublin.ie,
Miriam O’Donoghue, Tallaght, Miriam.ODonoghue@TUDublin.ie,