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Take Aways from AILTA2018

All Ireland Conference on Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Further and Higher Education My day at AILTA started off wonderfully with a stroll to the venue through the autumn leaves on Griffith Avenue. I'd never been to Marino institute of Education before and was very impressed with the setting for this great conference. In this blog post I couldn't possibly hope to cover even a small amount of the topics touched upon in today's conference. I'll just gather some reflections from talks that were particularly relevant to my own interests and practice. There were a few key themes that struck me during the day. Firstly, as would be expected, there was a great emphasis on taking an evidence informed approach to your practice. Secondly, the idea of listening to student stories came up at several talks and discussions. Thirdly there was a lot of discussion around the difference between digital assessment vs. technology enhanced assessment. Fourthly, there were seve