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DigCompEdu and the Professional Development of Teachers in Higher Education, Report and Recommendations from the CUTE (Erasmus+) Project
(CUTE - Competencies for Universities - using Technology in Education, 2022-12)A review was undertaken of the development of the digital competences of those who teach in higher education, focusing specifically on the use and value of the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators ... -
Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-11-11)This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual ... -
Reflections on teaching research ethics in education for international postgraduate students in the UK
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-25)Research ethics in education is a challenging topic to teach and to learn. As the staff and student body in UK higher education and elsewhere diversifies, the challenges increase as shared reference points diminish. My ... -
‘Homeliness meant having the fucking vacuum cleaner out’: the gendered labour of maintaining conference communities
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-24)This article extends examinations of the gendered nature of care and service in academia, with a particular focus on the labour of maintaining conference communities. Utilising empirical data from a cultural history of the ... -
Learning Technologists: changing the culture or preaching to the converted?
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-01-24)The role of a learning technologist is varied, we are involved in lots of different activities, and no two days are ever the same. We are constantly meeting and working with a variety of people, especially those of us who ... -
A module on learning technologies for teachers in higher education
(Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ITDCNR, 2018-03-06)This paper describes a 10 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS ) module in Learning Technologies which forms part of a Post Graduate Diploma in Academic Practice, part of a professional development framework ... -
Balancing privacy and openness, using a lens of contextual integrity
(Networked Learning, 2018-05-14)This paper describes a qualitative, empirical research study which explored the use of open educational practices (OEP) by academic staff in higher education, focusing particularly on the findings in relation to balancing ... -
Learning resources and open access in higher education institutions in Ireland
(National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015-05)This report arises from the findings of a collaborative project led by Dr. Angelica Risquez from the Centre for Teaching and Learning in the University of Limerick. The project was funded by the National Forum for the ... -
A careful approach to digital scholarship
(Hybrid Pedagogy, 2015-07-14)For a lot of reasons, the types of learning and knowledge valued in our world are diversifying. Networked participatory scholarship, which is increasingly carried out on social media platforms such as Twitter, provides ... -
The management and creation of knowledge: Do Wikis help?
(IGI Global, 2011)The increasing need for effective collaboration among third-level interdisciplinary groups suggests the necessity of developing teaching pedagogy that infuses teaching techniques with technologies. This case study analyses ... -
Trust schools and the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-06-21)This paper sets out the theoretical and methodological approach of a study of the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest in relation to the Trust schools initiative in England. Drawing on the discourse ... -
Openness and praxis: exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
(Athabasca University Press, 2017-08)Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As compared ... -
Struggling for visibility in higher education: caught between neoliberalism 'out there' and 'in here' - an autoethnographic account
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-01)What happens when neoliberalism as a structural and structuring force is taken up within institutions of higher education, and works upon academics in higher education individually? Employing a critical authoethnograph ... -
Private sentiment and public issues Irish medium education and complex linguistic and political Identification
(Waxman, 2012)Is it possible to construct a non-essentialist politics of place? This is a central question explored in this chapter. The empirical focus of the chapter is the cultural politics of language surrounding the Irish-medium ... -
The trouble of ‘living with others’: language, community and the politics of belonging
(SAGE Journals, 2016)In this article I ask myself the following question: ‘Rather than try to escape the seemingly awful choice between the private and the public, between the particular and universal, or between justice and freedom, I ask if ... -
Challenging lifelong learning policy discourse: Where is structure in agency in narrative-based research?
(2007)Can adult educational research on learning and identity counter the individualising of neoliberal government policy that seeks to constrain educational choices to those that contribute to government economic agendas? ... -
The making of Irish-speaking Ireland: The cultural politics of belonging, diversity and power
(2012)This paper is about linguistic justice issues in the post-colonial context of an Irish-speaking region in the south-west of Ireland, drawing on a study of political mobilization around the Irish-medium education policy ... -
Theorizing Progress: Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Higher Education
(Wiley, 1999-08)A conceptual framework of positions on women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) was developed, showing a chronological progression of the main approaches to women's underrepresentation in SET during the past 20 ... -
The Galway Symposium on Design for Learning: curriculum and assessment in higher education (Review Essay)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-06-14)The higher education (HE) system in Ireland, in common with many systems around the world, is facing a period of uncertainty. In the current economic climate, the seven universities in Ireland - plus the approximately 20 ... -
Creativity in Education: challenging the assumptions
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-25)The creative process is mysterious, intriguing and elusive. The above quote from celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami evokes an other-wordliness, a dream-like state, an escape from reality that many other creative ...