| Speaker | Dr. Timothy Savage, Associate Dean for Online Education, Trinity College Dublin |
Biography
Tim Savage was appointed as Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin’s first Associate Dean for Online Education in 2013. His role is to provide academic leadership to technology-enhanced and online learning across College and to lead the online education initiative. Since that time his team at Trinity College Dublin has launched a portfolio of fully online postgraduate courses and developed Ireland’s first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The success of these initiatives is having a real and immediate impact not only on students’ lives but also across the face-to-face campus and potentially into the wider community.
Tim joined Trinity College Dublin in 2002 as a lecturer in technology and learning and since that time has been experimenting with, researching, and teaching the role technology has to play in enhancing higher education, widening participation and the creation of new models of learning among new cohorts of learners.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is ranked 1st in Ireland and in the top 100 world universities by the QS World University Rankings.
