6th Annual Learning Innovation Network Conference – Sustainable Models of Student Engagement – Rhetoric or Achievable?

The 6th Learning Innovation Network (LIN) Annual Conference took place on 17th October 2013 in the Ashling Hotel, Dublin, Ireland.

This year’s conference theme is Sustainable Models of Student Engagement – Rhetoric or Achievable?

The conference was opened by Dr Terry Maguire – Director of the National Forum for the Enhancedment of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Opening address

Our keynote speakers this year were Mick Healey from Healey HE Consultants Ltd and Colin Bryson and Ruth Furlonger from Newcastle University.  For information on the keynotes click here.

 Prof Mick Healey keynote address

Colin Bryson & Ruth Furlonger keynote address

The presentations from the three sub-themes are below:

Student to student

Lecturers as students

 

Community/Industry

The conference ended with an Ideas Exchange session.  This session celebrated a selection of strategies currently in practice across the sector that have successfully engaged students as part of thir third level learning experience.  The audio files from this session are below.