Browsing Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) by Title
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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 ... -
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 Contradictions of Policy and Practice: Creativity in Higher Education
(London Review of Education (Taylor & Francis), 2012-07)Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An ethical commitment: responsibility, cosmopolitanism and care in the internationalised university
(Routledge, 2013-10)The internationalization of higher education has decisively moved from being a scholarly tradition of mobility across borders to an almost purely economic concern. This is a trend that is most pronounced in countries such ... -
Exploring the Unknown: Levinas and International Students in English Higher Education
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)This article will start with a description of a small, pedagogic event: a snippet of conversation recorded in a classroom as part of a research project on working in groups with postgraduate students. I will use these few ... -
Forum Critical Thinking: Symposium on the Future of Universities: Introduction
(Sage, 2010)This introduction is for a special forum with contributions from the Galway Symposium on Critical Thinking: the Future of Universities. -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
Irish Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...