Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 29th Aug 2026, 10:00:11pm IST
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Beyond tool selection: developing a practice-facing framework for technology-enhanced formative assessment
11:35am - 11:55am
“You can’t bring a toaster to a Viva” Staff and Student perceptions of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for learning Research Methods in Higher Education
11:55am - 12:15pm
Picture this – Utilising Rich Pictures Research to surface the complexities of Gen AI in teaching, learning and assessment
AI chatbots in higher education – a retrospective and overview of contemporary discourses
1:45pm - 2:00pm
RebelBot: co-designing a GenAI formative feedback agent for planning tasks in Initial Teacher Education
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Beyond ChatGPT: Implementing a course-specific AI teaching assistant for undergraduate medical education
2:15pm - 2:30pm
A Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education: A Collaborative Framework for Navigating AI in an Age of Abundance
Student centred engagement dashboards for online learning
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Educational innovation in uncertainty: Letting the data tell the story
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Connecting digital leaders: lessons from Ireland’s National Digital Leadership Network
"Fabricating EdTech Futures: projecting, prototyping, pilot testing and product trialling"
Student Intern perspective on Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education in Ireland
Engage your learners with 3d models
Teaching in the age of intelligent help
Sunny outlook with some scattered showers: What are past EdTech Conference Themes telling us about the future (2016-2026)?
Standing tall in the face of tech giants
Ingesting the past, investing in the future - archiving 50 years of history for Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI)
Attending to student views on attendance
ABC learning design: a decade of active, blended, and connected curriculum innovation
Reimagining professional learning in early childhood education: digital, dialogic and collaborative approaches
Collaborative content develop for work-integrated learning
Meeting global needs: how course design can encourage cohort and community building Across Online Audiences
Mapping the messiness: A worked example of thematic analysis for interpreting lecturers’ experience in a GenAI pilot study
Three-course sit-down conference dinner for delegates who have purchased tickets for this.
Explore the beautiful St Patrick's Campus. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space on the tour by selecting the plus button to add this session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Optional post-dinner drinks (for own account) in a local Drumcondra pub for those who wish to join.
Select the session title ("Workshop 01") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Immersive wellbeing training in higher education
Select the session title ("Workshop 03") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Real Exploration of Assessment and Learning (REAL) using Sophisticated Toolkits across NFQ levels
Select the session title ("Workshop 05") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Students as partners: A design for practice, agency and impact
Endless possibilities, limited realities: making sense of the gap between AI hype and pre-service teachers' actual AI use
11:35am - 11:55am
A student-informed approach to GenAI guidance in undergraduate finance and economics education
11:55am - 12:15pm
Making sense of micro-credentials: an emerging study of academic perspectives in Irish higher education
Beyond Blended: Creating places and spaces for new conversations about approaches to curriculum and learning design
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Building digital learning for blended courses – people, processes, and products
2:00pm - 2:15pm
The invisible work of learning technologists: practical approaches to designing digital learning experiences in HE
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Who Decides? Centring the Programme Team in the Design of TEL Decision-Support Tools
Shared solutions: a LAMS-enabled TBL journey
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Beyond the AI Arms Race: Restoring the Value of Project-Based Learning through Digital Defence
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Valued but underused? Exploring student engagement with technology-enhanced formative assessment
Student experiences of blended learning: self-efficacy and belonging
11:35am - 11:55am
Rethinking technology adoption models in higher education in a post-pandemic context
11:55am - 12:15pm
How Digital Identity ‘fits’ into other forms of Identity
The DCU co-innovation framework: fostering effective partnerships for robust, scalable, and engaging student transition and learning support
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Calling it an ePortfolio doesn’t make it one: Is it just an assessment?
2:00pm - 2:15pm
From Vision to Practice: Delivering a Scalable, Institution-Wide ePortfolio for Learning, Skills and Employability at UL
Success story - National College of Ireland: Turning attendance data into early intervention at scale
3:15pm - 3:30pm
From Zero to Hero: Designing for sustainable staff capability in classroom response system
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Our Turnitin Journey
Select the session title ("Workshop 02") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Zine making workshop: building creative communities of resistance
Select the session title ("Workshop 04") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Guiding digital change: leadership, mindset, and readiness
Select the session title ("Workshop 06") to read the workshop abstract. Limited capacity. Delegates can reserve a space in this workshop by selecting the plus button to add the session to "My Agenda" once logged in to ConfTool.
Genai as a psychological scaffold: empowering neurodivergent learners (alns)
Impact of choice on student performance in different laboratory practical assessments
11:35am - 11:55am
Navigating Choice: Exploring Students’ Perspectives on Choice in Assessments and the Design of the Assignment Brief
11:55am - 12:15pm
Using EdTech to support equity, diversity, and inclusion in formative assessment co-creation with students
Designing scalable, relational, and AI-aware reflective journals in postgraduate health professions education
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Scaffolding integrity, navigating change: three scalable initiatives for the GenAI teaching and assessment challenge at TU Dublin
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Design in of genAI in a strategy essay-type assignment in a Business School
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Stop the nonsense: A call to adopt a radically boring approach to genAI technologies in higher education
Developing gamified cybersecurity learning through student-teacher collaboration
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Staying in the Loop: Successfully embedding library digital supports in the university VLE
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Winning hearts, minds and budget lines with Open EdTech advocacy
3:45pm - 3:55pm
Teaching open education: An open, inclusive and digitally-critical collective approach
Revisiting the university timetabling problem: participatory perspectives and AI tools
11:35am - 11:55am
Reimagining cross-institutional, co-created technology-enhanced learning spaces
11:55am - 12:15pm
The 'non-student'? Technology, place, time, and community in Higher Education present(s) and future(s)
Civic education in the metaverse
1:45pm - 2:00pm
CO-DIRECT: Collaborative Design of Immersive XR for Empowering Educators in Creative Technologies..the beginnings
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Using Virtual Reality (VR) with students in Ireland and Canada to develop soft skills training—a transatlantic action research project.
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Student perceptions and engagement with a virtual instrumentation twin in an undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory
Stop rebuilding, start scaling: collaborative OER through Grasple
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Inclusive by design: Co‑redesigning canvas pages through student partnership
3:30pm - 3:40pm
Listening to our users: students’ experiences of a mobile VLE app and implications for practice
Designing with, not for: Building an intergenerational digital safety ecosystem in Ireland
11:35am - 11:55am
SmartAss DigiEd Competence machine – student views on digital skills and assessment in HE
11:55am - 12:15pm
Co-designing VR Chemistry labs for real-world rollout in post-primary schools
Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in academic writing
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Hierarchy of effective learning content: A dependency framework for inclusive content in higher education
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Inclusive online course design
2:15pm - 2:30pm
AT and AI: New enablers and barriers to incluson in HE.
A whole-school approach to digital well-being
3:15pm - 3:30pm
Flourishing in a Digital Environment: Enhancing MTU student Digital Wellness
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Using social robotics to support student learning and well-being in Higher Education: a cross-disciplinary project
3:45pm - 3:55pm
Do educators dream of electric sheep: Explorations of digital fatigue and imaginative responses
Storying the value of lifelong learning in digital society
Ai-assisted vs traditional self-assessment: A multi-modal study of student processes, accuracy, and cognitive-emotional impact
Exploring the impact of using Generative Artificial Intelligence by Leaving Certificate Computer Science teachers on their Professional Learning in the Republic of Ireland.
Between strategy and practice: navigating a doctoral journey on teachers’ digipedagogical competence within digital education strategy
Responsible integration of technology enabled tools in entrepreneurship education for competency development