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: 25th Oct 2026, 10:27:41am GMT
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am to 9:30am |
Registration / Tea & Coffee Location: E Block Foyer |
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| 9:30am to 9:45am |
Welcome from DCU President, Prof. Dáire Keogh Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team |
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| 9:45am to 10:35am |
Keynote 1, Dr Abeba Birhane Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Eamon Costello, Dublin City University & Conference Team |
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| 10:35am to 10:55am |
Elevator Pitches Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team Hear from the sponsors who support EdTech. |
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| 10:55am to 11:15am |
Coffee Break Location: E Block Foyer |
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| 11:15am to 12:30pm |
Research Papers 01 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Martina Crehan, Dublin City University (DCU) 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 |
Research Papers 02 Location: Room E206 Chair: Dr Ana Elena Schalk, Technological University Dublin 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 |
Research Papers 03 Location: Room E205 Chair: Dr Alison Egan, MIE 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 |
Research Papers 04 Location: Room E306 Chair: Dr Leigh Wolf, University College Dublin 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 |
Research Papers 05 Location: Room E305 Chair: Damien Raftery, South East Technological University 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) |
| Research Papers 06 Location: Room E303 Chair: Dr Cliona McParland, Dublin City University 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 |
Workshop 01 Location: Room E224 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 |
Workshop 02 Location: Room E203 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 |
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| 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Lunch Day One Location: Main Restaurant |
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| 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Doctoral Roundtable Part 1 Location: Room F117 Chair: Dr Amina Charania, Dublin City University (DCU) 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. |
Practitioner Papers 01 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Ken McCarthy, South East Technological University & Conference Team 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 |
Practitioner Papers 02 Location: Room E206 Chair: Dr Fiona Concannon, University of Galway & Conference Team 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 |
Practitioner Papers 03 Location: Room E205 Chair: Dr Angélica Rísquez, University of Limerick 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 |
Practitioner Papers 04 Location: Room E306 Chair: Dr James Brunton, Dublin City University 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 |
| Practitioner Papers 05 Location: Room E305 Chair: Dr Aoife Morrin, Dublin City University (DCU) 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 |
Practitioner Papers 06 Location: Room E303 Chair: Steve Welsh, Dublin City University (DCU) 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. |
Workshop 03 Location: Room E224 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 |
Workshop 04 Location: Room E203 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 |
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| 2:30pm to 3:00pm |
Poster Session 01/ Tea & Coffee Location: E Block Foyer Chair: Steve Welsh, Dublin City University (DCU) 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 |
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| 3:00pm to 4:00pm |
Doctoral Roundtable Part 2 Location: Room F117 Chair: Dr Amina Charania, Dublin City University (DCU) 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 |
Practitioner Papers 07 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Barry Peak, Dublin City University (DCU) 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 |
Practitioner Papers 08 Location: Room E206 Chair: Dr John P Egan, None 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 |
Practitioner Papers 09 Location: Room E205 Chair: Dr Ana Elena Schalk, Technological University Dublin 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 |
Practitioner Papers 10 Location: Room E306 Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team 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 |
| Practitioner Papers 11 Location: Room E305 Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team 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 |
Practitioner Papers 12 Location: Room E303 Chair: Dr Fiona Concannon, University of Galway & Conference Team 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 |
Workshop 05 Location: Room E224 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 |
Workshop 06 Location: Room E203 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) |
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| 4:00pm to 4:50pm |
Keynote 2, Dr Ben Williamson Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Eamon Costello, Dublin City University & Conference Team "Fabricating EdTech Futures: projecting, prototyping, pilot testing and product trialling" |
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| 4:50pm to 5:35pm |
Gasta 01 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Tom Farrelly, Munster Technological University 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) |
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| 5:45pm to 6:30pm |
Campus Tour Location: F Block Reception 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. |
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| 7:00pm to 9:30pm |
Conference Dinner (sponsored by D2L Europe Ltd) Location: Main Restaurant Three-course sit-down conference dinner for delegates who have purchased tickets for this. |
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| 9:30pm to 11:30pm |
Post-dinner Drinks Location: F Block Reception Optional post-dinner drinks (for own account) in a local Drumcondra pub for those who wish to join. |
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