Presentation to Heads and Deans, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, 14th December 2017.

1. @mbrownz
National Institute for Digital Learning:
Year in Review - 2017

2. @mbrownz
National Institute for Digital Learning:
Year in Review - 2017

3. Vision…
To be recognised as a world leader at
the forefront of designing, implementing
and researching new blended, online
and digitally-enhanced (BOLD) models
of education which help transform lives
and societies
@mbrownz

4. Mission…
To design, implement and research
distinctive and transformative models of
BOLD education which help transform lives
and societies by providing strategic
leadership, enabling and contributing to world-
class scholarship, and promoting academic
and operational excellence.
@mbrownz

5. Open
Education
Unit
The
Ideas Lab
Head
Acting Role
Teaching
Enhancement
Unit
Head
Mark Glynn
Research Network
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
BOLD
Learning
Designs
Head
Mairead Nic Giolla
Mhichil

6. Open
Education
Unit
The
Ideas Lab
Off-campus
Online
Delivery
New and
Emerging Models
of Delivery
Teaching
Enhancement
Unit
On-campus
Blended
Delivery
Research Network
BOLD
Learning
Designs
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

7. 1. Work Spaces
2. Loop / Reflect
3. Digital Tracker
4. DCU Connected
5. University of Sanctuary
6. FutureLearn
7. Research Outputs
8. External Projects
8. External Engagement
10. Major Conferences
Outline…
@mbrownz

8. Bea Orpen Building – Glasnevin Campus

9. • Demand-led
• Group-focused
• Challenge-based
• Technology-infused
• Programme redesign
Distinctive and Transformative
Sipping Points
• Awards
• T&L Day
• Discover DCU

13. • 3.7m sessions in past year
• 180K assignment submissions
• 3300 downloads of app
• 2000 active users of app
• 100%+ increase in activity over 4 years

14. Official
Launch

15. • Over 8000 users
• 1500 active users in last 7 days
• AAIM Project with University of Sussex
• Establishment of Irish Mahara user group
• Synthesis of the literature undertaken

16. Tame vs. Transform

18. On-campus
87%

19. On-campus
78%

20. Off-campus
85%

21. Off-campus
85%

22. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
Francis Bacon

28. €1.3m

29. 400 new online students

30. 2.7%

31. 2.7%

32. 10 x Online Scholarships for Refugees

33. 63
Scholarship
Applications

48. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
Francis Bacon

49. 100 x research outputs
425 x outputs since 2014
30 x keynote presentations

51. Delft University, University of Edinburgh, KU-Leuven,
Aarhus University, Tampere University of Applied Sciences
€480K

52. Georgia
NIDL €200K+

53. https://nidl.blog

54. https://nidl.blog
• 3500 Tweets
• 52 blog posts this year
• Over 9,000 views
• Over 1200 blog followers

58. 2019 Conference
Dublin

59. Looking ahead…
• Development of Teaching Enhancement Framework
• Strategic growth of DCU Connected offerings
• New FutureLearn courses

60. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you
@mbrownz

61. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
Francis Bacon