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, 09:59:57pm IST

 
Thu04June
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
E Block Foyer
Main Restaurant
Room E224
Room E206
Room E205
Room E203
Room E306
Room E305
Room E303
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
Welcome from DCU Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Lisa Looney
9:30am - 9:45am
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Dr Rob Lowney, Kate Molloy
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team
Session Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team
Keynote 3, Prof. Felicitas Macgilchrist
9:45am - 10:35am
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Dr Eamon Costello
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Dr Eamon Costello, Dublin City University & Conference Team

"Fragile generations: Edtech as infrastructures of feeling"

Who gets to design, develop or deploy edtech, for whom, and why, asks this year’s conference. This talk addresses one aspect of the people designing, developing, deploying, adapting, subverting and learning with edtech: the precarious, fragile, uncertain dimensions of living in our shared world. This is not about the ‘anxious generation’ of young people today; it is a description of a more fundamental human condition. Drawing on cultural theory and critical infrastructure studies, the talk outlines several ways in which the design of technologies used in education addresses people’s deepest fears and insecurities. This technopolitics of design is at odds with an education oriented to democracy, solidarity, liberation, risk or emancipation. Studies on how edtech is deployed, however, demonstrate ways in which these technologies are embedded into quotidian practices of care, enabling a joyful, risky, liberating education. The talk ends by reflecting on what this means for everyday practice, future research and a justice-oriented technopolitics.
Jennifer Burke Award
10:35am - 10:50am
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Dr Alison Egan, Dr Martina Crehan
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Dr Alison Egan, MIE
Session Chair: Dr Martina Crehan, Dublin City University (DCU)
Research Papers 07
11:20am - 12:35pm
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Damien Raftery
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Damien Raftery, South East Technological University
11:20am - 11:40am

From shortcut to scaffolding: centring student voices in the ethical integration of generative ai

Michael Aaron Flynn



11:40am - 12:00pm

Calibration rather than capitulation: Designing for critical agency in an AI-augmented undergraduate course

Michael Lang



12:00pm - 12:20pm

Are Irish teachers embracing AI? Adoption, impact, and trust in primary and secondary schools

Leire Pinedo, Ernesto Panadero, Kevin Marshall

Practitioner Papers 13
1:30pm - 2:30pm
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
David Moloney
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: David Moloney, University of Limerick
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Developing a critical generative AI literacy workshop for health professions students: a co-design approach

Dara Cassidy, Síobha Murphy, Jenny Moffett, Patrick Keegan, Mary Hearne



1:45pm - 2:00pm

MySkills: A unique digital platform capturing and evidencing students' transversal skills

Ciaran Dunne



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Who is this for? Competing forces and purposes in digital competence development

David Moloney, Yvonne Hynes

Gasta 02
2:45pm - 3:30pm
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Dr Tom Farrelly
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Dr Tom Farrelly, Munster Technological University

Doomscrolling, attention, and digital wellbeing in higher education

Jake Conway



Teaching with XR: Designing and Delivering an Immersive Learning Experience - an Open Badge

Dr Geraldine McDermott, Clara Keevey, Brendan Dolan, Dr Zeta Dooly, Hans Moolman, Dr Jeremiah Spillane, Dr Rob Lowney, Dr Rachel Farrell



Who is using our VLE?

Cormac Quigley, Etain Kiely, Esteban Moreno



Third Space: empowering identity formation or deepening divides?

Maeve O'Dwyer



Architects of uncertainty: why higher education must design for adaptative expertise in the Polycene

Cohen Ambrose



Podcast creation methodologies from the ground up

Robert O'Connor

The Big Debate: "Big EdTech is getting worse (exactly as planned)."
3:30pm - 4:10pm
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Dr Rob Lowney, Kate Molloy, Ken McCarthy
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Session Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team
Session Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team
Session Chair: Ken McCarthy, South East Technological University & Conference Team
 This motion argues that educational technology has, for the last 25 years, been getting slowly worse. While we often talk about the tools and technologies of EdTech, the reality is that we are almost always speaking of commercial products. As products, they are not designed to be sustainable or equitable, but disposable and expensive. \n\nAs time has gone by, EdTech has moved relentlessly towards hosted metered services and away from installable, sustainable software. EdTech has become a tap that drip feeds us its services in billable minutes, words and tokens. Its products\' hype cycles rise as fast as its sustainability declines. We can never have equity with products that are designed to function as desirable educational status symbols rather than tools for human transformation and flourishing.
Closing Reflection
4:10pm - 4:30pm
E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre
Registration / Tea & Coffee
9:00am - 9:30am
E Block Foyer
Location: E Block Foyer
Poster Session 02 / Tea & Coffee
10:50am - 11:20am
E Block Foyer
Steve Welsh
Location: E Block Foyer
Session Chair: Steve Welsh, Dublin City University (DCU)

Student podcasts as a strategy for engagement and support

David Jennings, Nima Ashour, Oakley Wisniewska



Preparing teachers to integrate AI: a practical, ethical, and research-informed training model

Priya Parekh, Cynthia van Golen



Reimagining Blue Tourism learning: designing a transnational online course using the New European Bauhaus framework

Neill Wylie, Emmett Cullinane, Mary Clare Curran, Lorna Bailey



Expectations vs reality for the technology enhanced classroom: dipping your toes in a sustainable way

Clare Martin



Designing for researchers: Applying learning design to research training and culture

Eva Roberts



A manifesto for generative AI in higher education

Ken McCarthy, Hazel Farrell

Coffee Break
2:30pm - 2:45pm
E Block Foyer
Location: E Block Foyer
Lunch Day Two
12:35pm - 1:30pm
Main Restaurant
Location: Main Restaurant
Workshop 07
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E224
Location: Room E224

Select the session title ("Workshop 07") 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.

The yin and yang of digital wellbeing: balancing your interactions with technology in the workplace

Suzanne Stone

Research Papers 08
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E206
Kate Molloy
Location: Room E206
Session Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team
11:20am - 11:40am

The afterlife of digital course shells

Kaitlin A Lucas



11:40am - 12:00pm

Whose educational future? Comparing teachers’ and LLMs’ visions and imaginaries

Tessa Consoli, Sebastian Simon, Cécile Vassaux, Gaëlle Guigon, Čarapina Mia



12:00pm - 12:20pm

“This whole project has been a personal thing”: How university academic staff discursively construct their online education craft

James Brunton, Eamon Costello, Jason McDonald

Practitioner Papers 14
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room E206
Dr Maeve O\'Dwyer
Location: Room E206
Session Chair: Dr Maeve O\'Dwyer, Dublin City University (DCU)
1:30pm - 1:45pm

What matters most to students in an LMS?

Irene O'Dowd, John Lenehan



1:45pm - 2:00pm

The helper’s trauma: developing a micro-credential with domestic, sexual and gender-based violence practitioners, a partnership approach.

Ester Marie Balgova, Dr. Kevin Mc Kenna, Dr. Kayla Rush, Dr. Aine Mc Hugh



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Empowering third space teaching and learning Professionals: Leadership, identity, and influence through structured leadership development

Clara Keevey



2:15pm - 2:30pm

True Grift

Darragh Coakley

Research Papers 09
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E205
Dr Yalemisew Abgaz
Location: Room E205
Session Chair: Dr Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University
11:20am - 11:40am

My way, your way, any way: embedding a heutagogic ethos in digital learning competence development

John P Egan



11:40am - 12:00pm

A Place at the Table: ICT Learning with Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Project WAVE

Tamsin Cavalierio, Jennifer Gilligan, Alfie Cavaliero



12:00pm - 12:20pm

Digital game-based learning for Irish: culture, inclusion, and vocabulary development in primary education

Liang Xu, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Monica Ward

Practitioner Papers 15
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room E205
Dr Yalemisew Abgaz
Location: Room E205
Session Chair: Dr Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Gen AI in research dialogue: A thought partner or a third wheel?

Edel Gallagher, Dolores McManus



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Co-Creation and Partnership: The Student Voice in the Design of Student Supports

Adele Commins



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Technology and Authentic Assessment in a world of GenAI

Laura Rafferty, Louise Nagle



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Sparking new possibilities: a partnership approach to developing cutting-edge learning spaces

Susan Hegarty

Workshop 08
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E203
Location: Room E203

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A joyful collaborative writing workshop with the IJTEL editorial team

Leigh Wolf, Fiona Concannon, Orna Farrell, Laura Costelloe

Research Papers 10
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E306
Dr Alison Egan
Location: Room E306
Session Chair: Dr Alison Egan, MIE
11:20am - 11:40am

Building teacher capacity for cybersecurity education in primary schools: a design-based professional learning approach

Rachel Farrell, Marelle Rice, Rosie Carroll



11:40am - 12:00pm

Sustainability of digital teaching post-pandemic: A study of rural upper primary and secondary educators

Vinay Lautre, Amina Charania, Margaret Leahy



12:00pm - 12:20pm

Mapping digital well-being in schools: Systematic review (2020–2025)

Enda Donlon, Peter Tiernan, Mahmoud Hamash

Practitioner Papers 16
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room E306
Dr Cliona McParland
Location: Room E306
Session Chair: Dr Cliona McParland, Dublin City University
1:30pm - 1:45pm

From digital fragmentation to a unified learning experience

Ryan Teevan



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Creating safe, brave spaces for democratic learning through podcasting

Jenny O'Connor, Andrea Bramberger, Sofia Theodosiadou



2:00pm - 2:15pm

From participants to partners: students as co-creators in digital resource design

Anna Murphy, Dr Carolann Bargary



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Student-led podcasts: An innovative POD-ogogy for the future of education

Cliona McParland

Research Papers 11
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E305
Dr Enda Donlon
Location: Room E305
Session Chair: Dr Enda Donlon, Dublin City University (DCU)
11:20am - 11:40am

Developing teachers’ AI competencies: Evidence from the PAIDEIA pre-pilot study

Peter Tiernan, Enda Donlon, Mahmoud Hamash



11:40am - 12:00pm

Learning through movement and motion: exploring embodied teacher interaction in a Virtual Reality classroom

Enda Donlon, Peter Tiernan, Hyowon Lee, Yagiz Eraslan, Mahmoud Hamash

Practitioner Papers 17
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room E305
Dr Suzanne Stone
Location: Room E305
Session Chair: Dr Suzanne Stone, University of Limerick
1:30pm - 1:45pm

The University of Bradford learning transformation journey

Richard Nelson



1:45pm - 2:00pm

The eLearning toolbox 2026 – Comparisons, efficiencies and automations

Colin OBrien



2:00pm - 2:15pm

The different purposes within student screens: how do students’ short form video consumption habits on social media translate into blended learning experiences.

Rebecca Conway, Orna Farrell



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Scaling high quality video production. Lessons learned in the Kemmy Business School Digital HUB

Grzegorz Rogala, Robert Dalton

Research Papers 12
11:20am - 12:35pm
Room E303
Dr Mags Amond
Location: Room E303
Session Chair: Dr Mags Amond, Computers in Education Society of Ireland
11:20am - 11:40am

Ooh Blogging is a Place on Earth

Jim Groom



11:40am - 12:00pm

Students' views on the limitations of learning analytics

Rob Lowney



12:00pm - 12:20pm

Reimagining the role of learning designers: Exploring professional identity and a postdigital approach

Kate Molloy

Practitioner Papers 18
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room E303
Dr Bonnie Thompson Long
Location: Room E303
Session Chair: Dr Bonnie Thompson Long, University of Galway & Conference Team
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Designing learning experiences with the THINKER Framework

Levent Görgü, Daphne Koufopanou, Christos Roushias, Eleni Trichina, Fani Karaoli, Stavroula Pantelopoulou, Juraj Petrović, Vasileios Margaritis, Chrysanthi Konstanti, Charalambos Vrasidas, Eleni Mangina



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Learners as decision-makers: Exploring cancer screening strategies through interactive simulation

VANESSA MATHER



2:00pm - 2:15pm

From server to browser: Evolving technologies for accessible interactive coding tutorials

Damien Dupré



2:15pm - 2:30pm

Tóraíocht - Designing an Immersive Narrative Game for Irish Language Learning in the Gaeilge na Mumhan Dialect

Diarmuid Ó Spealáin