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About SATLE

About SATLE

SATLE – the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education – is a €6.4m funding allocation administered by the National Forum in partnership with the Higher Education Authority to drive teaching and learning innovation and enhancement across the higher education sector.

This year’s allocation to SETU has supported over 33 initiatives, including large-scale projects, individual fellowships and university-wide seminars, all of which are designed to enhance the learning environment.

The focused themes for SATLE 2023 are:

  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Digital Transformation
  • Fostering Academic Integrity

The following initiatives have been supported through the current SATLE call:

Larger-scale projects

  • ESD Advancement in SETU
  • GRAD Programme for postgraduate students
  • Sustainable Growth – Crafting CPD Pathways for Employee Value
  • LEAD Learner Engagement Analytics by Design

 

Fellowships

  • How to talk about Race. 
  • Reading Together: a book club to discuss issues in teaching, learning, research and assessment.
  • Pixels of Progress – Smart Solutions for Communicating the School of Education Community of Practice
  • Combatting AI Assessment Issues with AI Assessment.
  • Statistics Skills Mastery: Scaling and Refining Stats Skills.
  • Enhancing Blended Delivery in an Evolving Context.
  • "Cultivating Inclusive Playgrounds: A Collaborative Educational Initiative for Early "Childhood Development".
  • Collaborative Innovations for Sustainable Futures - CI4SusFut. 
  • Developing a toolkit for ethical GenAI integration in large group teaching and assessment in Arts or theory-based modules. 
  • Coding Essentials: Extending Our Web-App to New Programmers.
  • Use of an online early alert system to enhance student learning and to aid student retention in introductory chemistry modules. 
  • Raising the Bar-UDL and the potential for transforming learning environments: A case study of the first steps in introducing a UDL framework to teaching, learning and assessment on a departmental level at SETU. 
  • Standardised approach to module design Toolkit. 
  • SMART, Student Multi-mode Artefacts to Reach Potential talent, Empowering lecturers and educators to Pay it forward.
  • Integrating Digital Immersive Technologies to Improve Engineering Teaching and Learning.
  • Toolkit to support Education for Sustainable Development.
  • Empowering inclusive Design through Empathy Tools.
  • Physics through Outdoor-based "Active Learning" for 1st year Health and Sports Science Students. 
  • Interactive 3D digital models of Built Environment for mobile phones.
  • Teaching Toolkit Digital Badge.
  • An Open Learner Model to support the development of research skills for postgraduate learners.
  • CP-CO: Community of Practice to pilot Copilot for Office 365.
  • From past to present, recognising the relevance of the history of social care education. 
  • Empowering Minds: Enhancing Engagement and Scientific Identity in First Year Common Science Student. 
  • Teaching & Learning in Prison Contexts.
  • Develop Students’ Skills Through Photonics and Optoelectronics Engineering Experiments that Promote Sustainability Concepts. 
  • Literature Wall. 
  • AI Literacy Tutorial.
  • Embedding eco-social justice and Sustainable Development Goals within Early Childhood and Social Care programmes and module descriptors.
  • Corpus Linguistics in the Language Classroom: a transformative pedagogy.

 

Seminars

Details of all Seminars will be advertised on the main Events Page.

If you have any queries, please forward them to Fiona O’Connor, SATLE Coordinator, SETU, at: [email protected].

For more information on the national SATLE initiative click the link provided below.

Funding Calls