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
FAIR Assessment Design Initiative

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.

Seminars

Showcase of Practice Based Learning.
Successfully Integrating Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Irish Higher Education System.
Innovate, Integrate, Impact: Challenge-based learning (CBL) in Higher Education.
Redefining Rigour: The Impact of Gen AI on Learning Activities.
Using Spoken Word Poetry to address interconnected global challenges and inequalities.
Generative AI in Higher Education: A Day of Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
Enhancing blended delivery when working with larger student groups.
Webinar series on contemporary perspectives on assessment and feedback.
Innovation in Audio Scholarship.
Conceptualising Mathematics in Early Childhood.
Climate Action Pedagogy (CAP) Design Challenge Co-Working Workshop.
Unlocking Potential: Exploring Effective Adult Learning Strategies.
SETU Hospitality, Culinary and Tourism Industry Partners Seminar to promote and foster greater understanding of the role that Placement Providers / Industry Mentors play.
Autism Awareness and Acceptance Event.
Enable final (4th) year students of the BA (Hons) in Arts in Culinary Arts to participate in a food styling and professional food photography masterclass.