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"CAFRE staff learn about 伊人直播 Barony鈥檚 digital classroom"
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Agriculture and equine staff from Northern Ireland got a hands-on demonstration of digital teaching methods during a visit to Scotland鈥檚 Rural College.
Lecturers from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) visited 伊人直播鈥檚 Barony campus in Dumfries to learn more about its digital classroom after hearing about it at an Irish education conference earlier this year.
伊人直播鈥檚 e-Learning Developer Ali Hastie spoke about the range of innovative digital teaching, learning and assessment methods being used at Barony 鈥� and shared across 伊人直播 鈥� at the Teagasc National Education Conference in Ballyhaise in April.
During the CAFRE visit, teaching staff from Barony鈥檚 agriculture, equine and forestry departments showed their Northern Irish colleagues how they deliver blended learning projects 鈥� where students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching 鈥� both within and outside of the digital classroom.
Dr. Stephanie Wood, Senior Equine Technologist at CAFRE, said: 鈥淭he Barony approach to student collaborative learning within the digital classroom was innovative and engaging, both for staff and students, and presents a real world solution to encourage student participation.
鈥淭he excellent demonstration and genuine enthusiasm shown by Barony staff have encouraged CAFRE to seriously investigate how we could adopt this technology.鈥�
Ali Hastie said: 鈥淚t was a privilege having CAFRE staff travelling all the way from Northern Ireland to visit our campus in order to find out more about our digital classroom initiative, and learn from a selection of our successful and award-winning digital teaching and learning projects.鈥�
Following the visit, staff from 伊人直播 have been invited back to Northern Ireland to share best practice and build on the links between the two institutions.
Posted by 伊人直播 on 08/07/2019
