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The Impact on Student Performance and Experience of the Move from Face-to-face to Online Delivery in Response to COVID-19: A Case Study in an Irish Higher Education Institute.
(PKP Publishing Services Network, 2021-02-28)
Teaching in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ireland was suddenly and severely affected by the onset of COVID-19, with Irish HEIs instructed to close from March 13th 2020 and advised to, where possible, teach online. ...
Building Digital Teaching and Learning Capabilities with DigitalEd.ie in Response to a Global Pandemic
(PKP Publishing Services Network, 2020-02-28)
The COVID 19 emergency has fundamentally changed the way we all live and work, and this is having an enormous impact on the teaching and learning experience. The physical closure of our five campuses in GMIT, forced ...
Universal Design for Online Library Instruction
(2021-05-26)
My motivation for doing the Digital Badge in UDL was to learn how to use the principles and practices of UDL to encourage students to actively engage in using library resources, by embracing and formally embedding UDL into ...
A Critique of Food Education in Irish Primary Schools: Exploring the Potential to Introduce Key Elements of International Models to the Irish Context
(2020-08-28)
This study aims to explore the possibility of Irish primary schools introducing key elements of international food education models to the primary school curriculum in a bid to developing positive healthy eating behaviours ...
Striving for success in library instruction: an analysis of acquiring information literacy skills in higher education as part of the first-year experience.
(2019)
Information Literacy (IL) is important for today's learners and is a vital skill in the pursuit of knowledge. It promotes problem solving, thinking skills, evaluating sources and learning strategies. The consequence of new ...
Enhancing Literacy and Numeracy Training
(2021-08-30)
Ireland has always prided itself on having a ‘world class’ education system. However, this was called into question when The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the results from its ...
A Critical Evaluation of the Integration of a Blended Learning Approach into a Multimedia Applications Module
(AISHE-J, 2018)
The concept of blended learning is not new. While research articles have outlined blending learning approaches across a number of disciplines, research studies on how blended learning design principles are implemented ...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Literacy Development Possibilities in Initial Teacher Education
(International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd), 2021-06-04)
The development of literacy competencies among second-level school students has been highlighted, by the Programme for International Student Assessment as ‘vital to succeed in society’. Literacy competency development has ...
An Evaluation of the Impact of Project-Based Learning on Student Engagement in the Six Sigma Green Belt Quality Module at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology: A Case Study
(2021-05-18)
Comprehensive and in-depth discipline content knowledge and professional, practical skills are critical in the engineering domain. At the same time, soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, critical thinking and ...
Supporting the first year experience in higher education: impact on student engagement, teaching practice and institutional policy
(2014)
Many students are not prepared for the demands of third level education and first year experience programmes are designed to support this transition and supplement the necessary academic and life skills. In 2009 a first ...