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Dr Catherine-Ann O’Connell

@catherine-ann1.bsky.social

Senior Education Developer. Passionate about higher education pedagogy and practice. Research areas include Pedagogies of Care; collegial cultures; EDI; Relational pedagogy. #AcademicSky

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Really looking forward to chairing the panel session 'Shaping the Future of Immersive Technologies' tus.ie/cpid/events/ tomorrow in TUS Athlone we'll be chatting about digital education, lifelong learning, simulations, diversity, personalised and experiential learning @setu-research.bsky.social

13.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social I think this links well to our work on what makes students trust teachers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.02.2025 17:24 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Integrating AI into Assignments to Support Student Learning — UVA Teaching Hub <p>What role might generative AI play in helping students meet the learning goals we have for them? This collection features concrete examples of assignments that thoughtfully integrate AI to support ...

One of the most frequent requests I get from faculty is to see examples of actual assignments that thoughtfully integrate generative AI. Today on the UVA Teaching Hub, we share such examples from four of UVA's Faculty AI Guides. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...

28.01.2025 15:51 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Another PhD scholar from @edreslancaster.bsky.social making an important contribution to research on teaching in higher education. Congratulations Jane Pye - terrific work.

26.01.2025 16:53 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Join ARLTSIG for their first event of the year. In the webinar, Dr Gurnam Singh will talk about approaches to anti racism in learning design and/or technology, followed by a series of questions exploring approaches to decolonising learning design and learning technologies. https://buff.ly/3WbazU1

23.01.2025 12:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@cpid24.bsky.social

21.01.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@drelliedavison.bsky.social
Hi Ellie. I’m looking to get your contact details for some work in Ireland. I’m a colleague of Catherine ODonoghue in Athlone. My email is: CatherineAnn.oconnell@tus.ie

17.01.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I loved stepping into the world of Assessment for Inclusion with @gravesle.bsky.social and the team from University College Dublin to help communicate their research.

You can read a little about it here: https://buff.ly/3Ywtp9w

14.01.2025 13:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Fantastic deep dive into what students and staff think about learning and attendance in what sounds like a very typically-structured course.

10.01.2025 05:46 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Teaching Online Series of Nutshells – Part 2 The Teaching & Learning Centre Nutshells are a series of quick, self-paced, online professional learning modules for faculty.

We influence the energy in class when we bring passion into our teaching. And we create emotional hooks in our course content to present info and add relevancy. But how do you do this? Learn more in our Designing for Emotion in Online Courses #TLCnutshell.

08.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The book "Learning Design Voices" offers a rich array of views, experiences and scholarly reflections from a wide diversity of learning designers across the world.
A hidden gem. Plus it is freely available open access
edtechbooks.org/ldvoices/

21.12.2024 14:57 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

some excellent articles in here!

18.12.2024 20:22 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Generative AI and learning. It's complicated.

New newsletter. Generative AI and learning. It's complicated. With citations of @marcwatkins.bsky.social @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @annamillsoer.bsky.social and, surprisingly, @internethippo.bsky.social.

Read and subscribe here: derekbruff.kit.com/posts/genera...

13.12.2024 17:14 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1
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The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future | Open Praxis Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance, and flexible education. It is published by International Council for Open and Distan...

The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future

By @arasbozkurt.bsky.social & more than 30 educators worldwide
#EduAI #EduSky #highered

openpraxis.org/articles/10....

29.11.2024 14:42 — 👍 61    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 5
Diagram that resembles a hopscotch game set up. These 9 steps outline a SoTL process.

Diagram that resembles a hopscotch game set up. These 9 steps outline a SoTL process.

The hopscotch 4-SoTL framework @kennesawstate.bsky.social is a great resource for designing your SoTL project. hopscotchmodel.com/4-sotl/

11.12.2024 08:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
What is process tracking and how is it used to deter AI misuse? – MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI

Is it invasive to ask students to share their document history to deter AI misuse? I hope we can set things up so it's more akin to in-class writing. But my wonderful colleagues in the @modernlanguage.bsky.social /CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI disagree: aiandwriting.hcommons.org/2024/11/25/w...

04.12.2024 04:46 — 👍 35    🔁 6    💬 10    📌 6
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How to use AI to learn (without cheating): students develop new guide University of Sydney students and staff have developed AI in Education, an online resource that shows how generative AI can be used to boost learning. Read more.

Useful AI guidance for students by students, from University of Sydney www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

18.11.2024 13:05 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 3

Great way to raise the post lunch energy levels with a #Gasta

26.11.2024 17:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Strong leadership support across all partner institutions has enabled @ntutorr.ie activities to achieve major impact - #NTUTORRShowcase #TransformingLearning #NextGenerationEU

26.11.2024 17:43 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Thrilled to get my Gasta badge today at the Ntutoor showcase. We presented on embodied, trauma-informed teaching in HE. Nutoor offered us so many opportunities to innovate, collaborate and celebrate the new Technology Universities in Ireland.

26.11.2024 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m really looking forward to a great celebration of this wonderful initiative across the Technological Universities in Ireland. So sorry it’s not continuing!

22.11.2024 21:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're counting down the days to the N-TUTORR Showcase, focusing on the breadth of activity across the programme and the successful collaborations that have emerged. Lots of parallel sessions and an active exhibition space. Celebrating all things N-TUTORR. #NextGenerationEU #TransformingLearning

21.11.2024 16:29 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

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