Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: The DIT Annual Teaching Fellowships were established in 2009 as part of cycle II of the HEA's Strategic Innovation Funded Enhancement of Learning (EoL) strand of the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance (DRHEA).This partnership Alliance of eight universities and Institutes of Technology across the wider Dublin region was awarded funding for a range of collaborative activities, with the aim of sharing expertise and creating economies of scale in their efforts to address strategic needs in Teaching and Learning, Graduate Education, Internationalisation and Widening Participation.The aim of the DIT Teaching Fellowships was to support key faculty based educational research projects linked to the wider Institute Enhancement of Learning strategy themes.The title of 'Teaching Fellow' was to be awarded to an individual or a team, nominated by the faculty and who would undertake a research project to support the enhancement of learning and/or curriculum development at a programme, school or faculty level over a one academic year period.It was intended that evidence gathered from the studies would be utilised to inform relevant policy, practice or similar institutional research activities into the future.Applications were invited for Fellowship projects that linked to the DIT strategic themes related to Diversity, Modularisation and e-Learning (See Appendix 1.1 for the 2009/10 Teaching Fellowship Strategy Grid).Initially a SIF funded Learning Development Officer, Rachel Fitzgerald, was responsible for overseeing the coordination of the Fellowship project processes.The LTTC provided Fellowship Project proposal and planning advice/guidelines to the Heads of Learning Development or equivalent and/or Fellowship applicants, upon request.However, the faculties were responsible for selecting projects aligned to their own strategic priorities.In September 2009, twelve DIT Teaching Fellowships were launched, two from each of the then six faculties.Each Fellow was allocated two members of LTTC staff to help support their project work.A programme of six Fellowship workshops and project update sessions were scheduled throughout the year.A one-day writers' retreat was coordinated to encourage the Teaching Fellows to write their work up for a peer reviewed journal paper.A Fellowship website was established: http://www.dit.ie/lttc/projects/institutionalprojects
Author: Jen Harvey
Institution: Dublin Institute of Technology
Language: French
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1972668655