what works & why

Dr. Mark Glynn & Lisa Donaldson, DCU

Activity Overview

“The What Works & Why project aims to build digital literacy and engagement for students and teachers by exploring the question: “What works and why?”

Technology Enhanced Learning: What Works and Why?

Audience Participation Part

Student Voice

Project Overview

Workshops, seminars, and drop-in clinics between Jan 4th

and May 31st

34TEL week

March 7th -11th

26TEL Innovation Projects Funded Numbers of Teaching

Groups

12 + 3

TEL Week Workshops

TEL Tales, M-enabling formative assessment, Google Apps, Screencasting, Learning Analytics,

Mastering Moodle, Technology Enhanced Feedback Approaches, Universal Design for Learning,

Eportfolios using Google Drive, Using Socrative, Skype for Telecollaboration

Projects

Computing

Engineering

Developing a Technology Enhanced ‘Aura’ in Science Education

Interactive audio-visual support and reinforcement for music ensemble learning and teaching

Animate – ideas worth sharing

Library

Technology Enhanced Teaching within the Clinical Practice Setting

The application of headcams to enhance the educational experience in chemistry laboratories

Full list of Projects

www.whatworksandwhy.ie

Teaching Groups

Live Polling in

Business School

Eportfolios for Education

Online Community of Practice for Science Educators

Digital storytelling as a tool for teaching undergraduate history

Teaching at Scale: What Works and Why?

Digital Citizenship Group 

Edtech Computing

Teaching Group

Moodle 

Academic Writing

CPD Evaluation

Over 160 attended WW&W events

Evaluations based Impact Evaluation Framework (Coolbear & Hinton, 2013)

Reach Impact on Practice

Impact on Learners Impact on Project Teams

CPD Evaluation – Impact on Practice

It gave me confidence to try new things

Yes I have trialled the various ideas in my own classes

Yes it has made me more aware of students and learning needs

Yes, I am using the idea of feedforward in my lectures

They have increased my awareness of the potential of technology and my need for training

Yes, I am trying out screen casting for the first time

Given me practical examples of technology-enhanced pedagogy to share with my students

CPD Evaluation – Impact on Practice

Do you intend to investigate further an idea/technology/way of using a technology that you have learned about in these workshops?

Over 90% of respondents to date

YES

Impact of Teaching Groups ?

Teaching Groups embedded within faculties

Technology evangelists may inspire beyond short lifespan of project Briefing Guides TEL Tales book Table Top Cards

Sustainability

Integration of TEL in pedagogically sound ways is more likely to be effective when embedded in course design

Business

Science

Computing

Nursing

Humanities

Critical Reflection + Stimuli Significant Impact on Practice

Mark.glynn@dcu.ie Lisa.donaldson@dcu.ie

www.whatworksandwhy.ie @whatworksandwhy

Questions and Contacts