Learning technology is developed and used across a broad range of sectors, spanning from primary to higher education and from public sector to private industry, and an extensive degree of collaboration takes place between education and industry.
The Industry Collaboration section is intended to provide a forum to highlight the synergies that exist between participants in the learning technology area, and to help promote and develop stronger links across sectors. We hope that it will provide members with a platform where they can:
- Build and extend collaborative links between institutions and industry
- Share and exchange ideas about products & technologies
- Develop and share best practices
- Showcase applications of learning technologies
- Source information and resources on technology and e-learning providers
Showcasing Synergies – Dissemination
ILTA provides a number of high-profile dissemination channels to highlight education and industry synergies:
- Web presence: we are happy to use this online space to promote education and industry case studies and partnerships
- EdTech Conference: since 2010, our annual conference has included a dedicated stand titled ‘Technology in Action’ which highlights achievements and outcomes of these partnerships. These presentations are streamed live and are available for partners’ own dissemination chanels
- TEL Ireland journal: we invite all ‘Technology in Action’ partners to contribute a paper to our peer-reviewed ISSN journal
Technology in Action Videos

Leonie Gately, DCU
and Alistair Brook, Blackboard Collaborate, present ‘Using the virtual classroom to deliver an Online Teaching Module to staff across eight Higher Education Institutions’

Claire McAvinia, NUI Maynooth and Mark Melia, Enovation Solutions present ‘Using e’portfolios to build graduate students’ professional profiles’
Get Involved
If you would like to get involved in highlighting your education and industry partnerships, or would like to find out how to avail of our dissemination channels, please email info-at-ilta.ie
(please replace “-at-” with “@”)