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, 09:18:55pm IST
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Daily Overview |
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Registration / Tea & Coffee Location: E Block Foyer |
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| 9:30am - 9:45am |
Welcome from DCU Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Prof. Lisa Looney 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 - 10:35am |
Keynote 3, Prof. Felicitas Macgilchrist Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Eamon Costello, Dublin City University & Conference Team "Fragile generations: Edtech as infrastructures of feeling" |
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| 10:35am - 10:50am |
Jennifer Burke Award Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Alison Egan, MIE Chair: Dr Martina Crehan, Dublin City University (DCU) |
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| 10:50am - 11:20am |
Poster Session 02 / Tea & Coffee Location: E Block Foyer Chair: Steve Welsh, Dublin City University (DCU) Student podcasts as a strategy for engagement and support Preparing teachers to integrate AI: a practical, ethical, and research-informed training model Reimagining Blue Tourism learning: designing a transnational online course using the New European Bauhaus framework Expectations vs reality for the technology enhanced classroom: dipping your toes in a sustainable way Designing for researchers: Applying learning design to research training and culture A manifesto for generative AI in higher education |
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| 11:20am - 12:35pm |
Research Papers 07 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Damien Raftery, South East Technological University From shortcut to scaffolding: centring student voices in the ethical integration of generative ai 11:40am - 12:00pm Calibration rather than capitulation: Designing for critical agency in an AI-augmented undergraduate course 12:00pm - 12:20pm Are Irish teachers embracing AI? Adoption, impact, and trust in primary and secondary schools |
Research Papers 08 Location: Room E206 Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team The afterlife of digital course shells 11:40am - 12:00pm Whose educational future? Comparing teachers’ and LLMs’ visions and imaginaries 12:00pm - 12:20pm “This whole project has been a personal thing”: How university academic staff discursively construct their online education craft |
Research Papers 09 Location: Room E205 Chair: Dr Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University My way, your way, any way: embedding a heutagogic ethos in digital learning competence development 11:40am - 12:00pm A Place at the Table: ICT Learning with Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Project WAVE 12:00pm - 12:20pm Digital game-based learning for Irish: culture, inclusion, and vocabulary development in primary education |
Research Papers 10 Location: Room E306 Chair: Dr Alison Egan, MIE Building teacher capacity for cybersecurity education in primary schools: a design-based professional learning approach 11:40am - 12:00pm Sustainability of digital teaching post-pandemic: A study of rural upper primary and secondary educators 12:00pm - 12:20pm Mapping digital well-being in schools: Systematic review (2020–2025) |
Research Papers 11 Location: Room E305 Chair: Dr Enda Donlon, Dublin City University (DCU) Developing teachers’ AI competencies: Evidence from the PAIDEIA pre-pilot study 11:40am - 12:00pm Learning through movement and motion: exploring embodied teacher interaction in a Virtual Reality classroom |
| Research Papers 12 Location: Room E303 Chair: Dr Mags Amond, Computers in Education Society of Ireland Ooh Blogging is a Place on Earth 11:40am - 12:00pm Students' views on the limitations of learning analytics 12:00pm - 12:20pm Reimagining the role of learning designers: Exploring professional identity and a postdigital approach |
Workshop 07 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 |
Workshop 08 Location: Room E203 Select the session title ("Workshop 08") 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. A joyful collaborative writing workshop with the IJTEL editorial team |
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| 12:35pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Day Two Location: Main Restaurant |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Practitioner Papers 13 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: David Moloney, University of Limerick Developing a critical generative AI literacy workshop for health professions students: a co-design approach 1:45pm - 2:00pm MySkills: A unique digital platform capturing and evidencing students' transversal skills 2:00pm - 2:15pm Who is this for? Competing forces and purposes in digital competence development |
Practitioner Papers 14 Location: Room E206 Chair: Dr Maeve O'Dwyer, Dublin City University (DCU) What matters most to students in an LMS? 1:45pm - 2:00pm The helper’s trauma: developing a micro-credential with domestic, sexual and gender-based violence practitioners, a partnership approach. 2:00pm - 2:15pm Empowering third space teaching and learning Professionals: Leadership, identity, and influence through structured leadership development 2:15pm - 2:30pm True Grift |
Practitioner Papers 15 Location: Room E205 Chair: Dr Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Gen AI in research dialogue: A thought partner or a third wheel? 1:45pm - 2:00pm Co-Creation and Partnership: The Student Voice in the Design of Student Supports 2:00pm - 2:15pm Technology and Authentic Assessment in a world of GenAI 2:15pm - 2:30pm Sparking new possibilities: a partnership approach to developing cutting-edge learning spaces |
Practitioner Papers 16 Location: Room E306 Chair: Dr Cliona McParland, Dublin City University From digital fragmentation to a unified learning experience 1:45pm - 2:00pm Creating safe, brave spaces for democratic learning through podcasting 2:00pm - 2:15pm From participants to partners: students as co-creators in digital resource design 2:15pm - 2:30pm Student-led podcasts: An innovative POD-ogogy for the future of education |
Practitioner Papers 17 Location: Room E305 Chair: Dr Suzanne Stone, University of Limerick The University of Bradford learning transformation journey 1:45pm - 2:00pm The eLearning toolbox 2026 – Comparisons, efficiencies and automations 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. 2:15pm - 2:30pm Scaling high quality video production. Lessons learned in the Kemmy Business School Digital HUB |
| Practitioner Papers 18 Location: Room E303 Chair: Dr Bonnie Thompson Long, University of Galway & Conference Team Designing learning experiences with the THINKER Framework 1:45pm - 2:00pm Learners as decision-makers: Exploring cancer screening strategies through interactive simulation 2:00pm - 2:15pm From server to browser: Evolving technologies for accessible interactive coding tutorials 2:15pm - 2:30pm Tóraíocht - Designing an Immersive Narrative Game for Irish Language Learning in the Gaeilge na Mumhan Dialect |
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| 2:30pm - 2:45pm |
Coffee Break Location: E Block Foyer |
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| 2:45pm - 3:30pm |
Gasta 02 Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Tom Farrelly, Munster Technological University Doomscrolling, attention, and digital wellbeing in higher education Teaching with XR: Designing and Delivering an Immersive Learning Experience - an Open Badge Who is using our VLE? Third Space: empowering identity formation or deepening divides? Architects of uncertainty: why higher education must design for adaptative expertise in the Polycene Podcast creation methodologies from the ground up |
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| 3:30pm - 4:10pm |
The Big Debate: "Big EdTech is getting worse (exactly as planned)." Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre Chair: Dr Rob Lowney, Dublin City University & Conference Team Chair: Kate Molloy, Dublin City University & Conference Team Chair: Ken McCarthy, South East Technological University & Conference Team |
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| 4:10pm - 4:30pm |
Closing Reflection Location: E218 Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre |
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