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    • Empowering learners with self-selecting learning tools 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)
      Students need to be encouraged while in the liminal space i.e. the learning journey in the process of mastering a threshold concept (Land et al, 2014) (Meyer & Land, 2003). However, this learning journey can either be a ...
    • Re-boot learning: providing an e-tivity scaffold for engagement for early research activity through blog technology embedded within teaching and learning 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta; O'Dea, Majella (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)
      Increasing student numbers in higher education over the last decade has challenged educational environments. The challenge for educators is to re-think learning environments and delivery methods such that a student-educator ...
    • Turbocharging the journey into the liminal space and beyond 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2017-03-06)
      In the last decade, tertiary educational environments accommodated increasing student numbers (Reidy, 2015) while remaining competitive in differentiating their programmes in an arena of MOOCs (Alraimi, Zo, & Ciganek, ...
    • Vertebral fractures in Ireland: A sub-analysis of the DXA HIP Project 

      Yang, Lan; Carey, John; Erjiang, E.; Wang, Tingyan; Gorham, Kelly; Egan, Rebecca; Brennan, Attracta; Dempsey, Mary; Armstrong, Catherine; Heaney, Fiona; Yu, Ming (Elsevier, 2021-04-30)
      The vertebrae are the commonest site of osteoporotic fracture osteoporosis, are associated with the highest mortality, and a huge illness burden. Some have questioned the value of screening for spine fractures, but studies ...