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UCD Teaching & Learning offers a comprehensive range of workshops. Please check the Teaching and Learning Events Calendar for details of the next scheduled workshops. Click on the registration form above to book a place on an upcoming workshop.
If you would like to attend a workshop which is not currently scheduled please contact teachingandlearning@ucd.ie with your expression of interest, additional workshops will be scheduled subject to sufficient numbers. These workshops may also be designed for specific audiences and requested on a college or school basis.
Most of the workshops are designed and aimed at the academic community or those in a supporting role. The duration of the workshops is either a half-day or a full day.
Lecturing to Large Groups
This workshop offers a practical guide to developing session plans for lecturing to large groups. It explores a variety of both media and methodology to enable effective communication and engagement.
Small Group Teaching
This workshop provide an exploration of multiple methodologies for engaging small groups, it tackles commons issues and problems and offers design and planning guides to enable effective small group interaction and learning.
Preparation & Use of a Study Guide
A study guide is more than a collection of notes and a timetable. A well prepared study guide is an educational device that can promote the student to assume greater responsibility for their learning. This workshop will focus on how a study guide will assist learning, present a focus for student activities relating to learning and also provide information on the subject of study.
Using Peer Observation to produce quality Teaching
This workshop will provide attendees with the skills necessary to prepare, conduct, and reflect on peer observation of teaching. Focus will be on the preparation and implementation of the UCD model of peer observation.
Evaluating Teaching
Evaluating your teaching and courses: questionnaires and other student feedback methods. An introduction to summative and formative approaches to evaluating teaching.
Curriculum Development for Beginners
In the design of a course there are a number of key questions which the course developer must address to produce an educationally coherent product. This workshop will highlight the issues which will confront course developers and provide insight in how to approach designing an educational course
Assessing Students and Giving Feedback
How to give (more) effective feedback. How to match assessment methods with learning activities and intended outcomes. Some suggestions for (possible) alternatives to exams.
Assessment Strategies for Beginners
This workshop aims to encourage participants to utilise alternative forms of assessment other than the “traditional” end of module unseen written examination.
Making Assessment Count
This workshop will explore principles of effective assessment, assessment techniques, and constructive alignment between learning outcomes with assessment methods.
Applying Psychology to Learning
This workshop will provide information on current learning theories, and how they can be integrated into the classroom to promote more effective learning.
Getting Started with Problem-based Learning (PBL)
This interactive workshop facilitates you getting started with a new problem-based learning initiative through engaging you in designing problems for your context. The workshop will also give you the opportunity to experience a PBL tutorial as a student and to be introduced to general and discipline specific PBL practice resources and research.
Problem-based learning (PBL) tutor training
This interactive workshop will prepare you for the role of PBL tutor. It will explore what we can learn form the research on PBL tutorials and will engage you in practical exercises about critical incidents in PBL tutorials,
Mind Mapping & Student Learning
The aim of this workshop is to introduce the concept of mind-mapping as a cognitive tool for student learning within the curriculum, this methodology may enable users to enhance recall and act as an aid to study.
Developing Reusable Learning Resources & Activities
The workshop will explore how one may adapt and develop their teaching resources to enable them to be used and redeployed in a myriad of settings.
Assessment Solutions utilizing E-Learning
The aim of this workshop is to explore how a myriad of technological solutions may be applied to the process of assessment enabling the student to become self-directed and a reflective practitioner; using blogs as reflective diaries, designing online case studies, using collaborative tools for presentation, capitalising on discussion boards and information sharing.
Designing for Enquiry-Based Learning Online
This workshop is for curriculum teams that are preparing and/or adapting their Modules to utilise the concept of enquiry based learning. An introduction to EBL online is followed by a hands on development workshop [participants must have action plans and materials prepared in advance].