EdTech Annual Conference 2025
South East Technological University
Waterford, Ireland
May 29 & 30, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Professor Jen Ross
Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures
Jen Ross is a Professor in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on understanding how digital technologies shape learning, teaching, and research practices in higher education and beyond. She is particularly interested in the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of digital education, exploring...
The emotional arc of AI integration: a heuristic approach to understanding academic responses
11:35am - 11:55am
AI and EdTech as Climate Criminals
11:55am - 12:15pm
Levelling up: the evolution of digital learning in Irish higher education: a comparative study with a focus on generative AI
TOPIC - A referencing model for GenAI usage by students
1:45pm - 2:00pm
'Yeah Bot, No Bot': Divergent Perspectives of Electrical Apprentices on the role and impact of a Custom GPT in Learning.
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Your LMS may be around a long time but is it mature?
2:15pm - 2:25pm
3 become oneVLE
From drop-in to buy-in: How TEL cafés engage busy staff in digital learning.
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Rise and Reach: Scaling Staff Training across Campuses at ATU
3:30pm - 3:45pm
AI upskilling at innopharma education
3:45pm - 4:00pm
The Financial Readiness Digital Badge: Co-creating an online course with students
GenAI:N3 (Generative AI: N-TUTORR National Network) is an ambitious project aimed at transforming higher education by leveraging the power of Generative AI.
This project brings together educators, students, and technologists across seven partner institutions to explore innovative ways Gen AI can enhance learning and teaching. By developing tools and resources, the project empowers educators with...
Visualising engagement: micro-learning tools to enhance Moodle course design
4:35pm - 4:40pm
A Technique for Producing Ideas (Even in the Age of AI)
4:40pm - 4:45pm
GRAD - online support for research postgraduates
4:45pm - 4:50pm
Enhancing social support and performance with AI-driven anthropomorphic avatars
4:50pm - 4:55pm
From Tokens to Toxins: Digital Pedagogy at the Edge of Catastrophe
4:55pm - 5:00pm
Traffic light Systems for Generative AI usage: Are these a 'Go or No Go'?
Beyond Metrics: Generative AI and the Crisis of Educational Values
5:00pm - 5:05pm
Unifying minds: Collaborative approaches to AI in higher education
How pre-service primary teachers use GenAI across the teacher education journey
11:35am - 11:55am
Reframing VET: Co-designing innovation frameworks for authentic learning
11:55am - 12:15pm
Planning for a technologically rich language class with the PICRAT model
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion challenges for lecturers and students in an online environment
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Creating Accessible and Pedagogically Grounded Learning Materials and Courses with the Use of eAuthroing Tools
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Maybe just I, REAL intelligent assessment toolkits
Rate your accessible practice
Tutors AI - Generative AI augmentation to Tutors
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Whose job is it anyway?
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Bridging the gap: practical considerations for analytical adoption in education
ATU seven steps to programme design with the curriculum framework toolkit
Does Picture-in-Picture give you the PiP? The challenges for lecturers of recording instructional videos with Picture-in-Picture (PiP) video including appropriate eye-gaze direction.
11:35am - 11:55am
The Digital Panopticon, the Echo Chamber and Exotic Minds in the Machine: Philosophical Musings on AI, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity
Are we building or being built? Rethinking AI in higher education through Lego Serious Play
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Immersive Learning in Construction: Practical insights from DASBEs XR tools.
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Employing immersive technology in online, blended, and distance learning: A case study of the Flexible and Professional Learning Department at TUS
2:15pm - 2:25pm
Using Canvas for Online and CPD Provision at MTU
Critical and creative methodologies: learning design practice to research
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Sustainable by Design: transforming teaching and research culture through creative technology integration in higher education
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Making it real: From statutory guidelines to a tangible tool.
Developing a digital tool to support self-regulated learning in academic writing
11:35am - 11:55am
An analysis of student feedback and usage of StatsSkills, a web app for systematically practising statistics skills.
11:55am - 12:15pm
Digital equality: what managers think
The goldilocks principle of trust: student use of ai chatbots for research”
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Perpetual motion meets curricular glue: A dynamic Digital Skills Hub navigating GenAI’s moving target
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Creating GenAI Literacy Resources: Insights from the University of Limerick's 'Let’s Talk GenAI' workshops
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Developing ethical and informed AI use in education: Lessons from Ireland’s AI Literacy in the Classroom programme
A Practitioner's Experience of VEVOX in the Teaching & Learning Environment
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Democratic classrooms - exploring a collaboration within irish tertiary education to facilitate the education of adult educators
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Helping students and researchers to develop Artificial Intelligence literacy: Opportunities for academic libraries
Closing the digital divide: A programme team approach to online module design
11:35am - 11:55am
Enthusiastically ‘muddling through’: Business School lecturer interpretations of the impact of Generative AI on their pedagogic practices
Are we digital yet? Using the Jisc digital capabilities framework and tools on the journey to digital fluency
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Oh, the places you'll teach! Piloting beyond blended with JISC in academic practice
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Capturing a learning moment:- Reflections on the use of an in-class, online survey tool to gather deeper insights into student non-engagement.
Access for all: supporting neurodiverse students through inclusive design
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Heutagogy: Fancy word, practical idea
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Heart, mind, and slack: coaching the whole learner with emoji check-ins
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Contract Cheating Challenges: A pilot project exploring the problem and solutions.

