Major Contribution to EdTech 2014
NIDL and DCU staff played a prominent role at the recent EdTech 2014 conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA). Over a dozen presentations were given by DCU and linked College...
View ArticleOnline Learning in the Irish Context: Submission to Joint Committee on...
At very short notice, last Wednesday, Professor Brian MacCraith, President of Dublin City University, and Professor Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning, along with...
View ArticleEuropean Projects in Open Education
The NIDL is currently playing a lead role in three European funded projects which focus on leadership and maturing our institutional understanding of the potential benefits of Open Education. The HOME...
View ArticleThe Battle for Openness: Professor Martin Weller
We recently hosted Professor Martin Weller from the UK Open University. Martin holds a UNESCO Chair in Open Education and is Director of the Open Educational Resource Research Hub. He is author of a...
View ArticleFollow up on National MOOC Symposium
A recent report shows that the number of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) being offered by institutions, and the intention to develop more, is continuing to increase throughout Europe (Jansen &...
View ArticleNIDL delegation visits China
In June 2016, a small DCU delegation visited China as part of an externally funded collaborative research project with the Big Data Centre for Technology Mediated Education at Beijing Normal...
View ArticlePapers at EMOOCs 2017 Conference
This year’s 5th EMOOC conference (or known in full as the European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit) was held in Madrid (22-26 May, 2017). Once again the conference featured a very strong line up of keynote...
View ArticleResearching Open Digital Textbooks: From Books to MOOCs and Back Again
A research team in the NIDL has begun a study to investigate the current and intended future use of open digital textbooks in Irish higher education. Despite textbooks still being a common feature of...
View ArticleMeeting of the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN)
The next meeting of the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN) takes place in Dublin City University (DCU) on Friday the 5th April 2019, from 10am to 4pm. The theme of the meeting will be ‘Transforming...
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ICDE World Conference Update: Pack your Bags and a Warm Coat!
It’s time to pack your bags as Dublin is ready and eagerly awaiting your arrival. You might need a warm coat as we expect some spine chilling weather this week to conicide with Halloween, the...
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