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Designing Together: Effective Strategies For Creating A Collaborative Curriculum To Support Academic Development, Noel Fitzpatrick, Jen Harvey
Designing Together: Effective Strategies For Creating A Collaborative Curriculum To Support Academic Development, Noel Fitzpatrick, Jen Harvey
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This publication has arisen out of collaborative work completed as part of the Learning Innovation Network (LIN) project funded under Strand 2 of the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) Strategic Initiative funded (SIF) sectoral project: Improving services to students and capacity building (2006-2010), involving all 13 Irish Institutes of Technology and the Technological University Dublin. One of the 3 objectives of this strand was to scope the parameters of an agreed Academic Development Programme. Since Sept 2008, a LIN Accredited Professional Development (APD) Sub-group has been working towards the establishment of a sustainable shared academic development programme that might be …
Virtual Problem-Based Learning Communities Of Practice For Teachers And Academic Developers: An Irish Higher Education Perspective, Roisin Donnelly
Virtual Problem-Based Learning Communities Of Practice For Teachers And Academic Developers: An Irish Higher Education Perspective, Roisin Donnelly
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This chapter presents the results from research and experience in the field of Higher Education (HE) academic development in the Republic of Ireland. The objective of this chapter is to discuss an exploration of how a Problem-based Learning Virtual Community of Practice (vCoP) was developed and supported within the context of academic development. The chapter is based upon the notion of 'community' - a group of academic staff in HE with a shared interest in designing e-learning courses - and the use of problem-based learning (PBL) as a pedagogical approach supported by learning technologies. As the development and availability of …