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Profiles Of Public Engagement: Findings From The Ernest A. Lynton Award For The Scholarship Of Engagement For Early Career Faculty, John Saltmarsh, Elaine Ward, Patti H. Clayton
Profiles Of Public Engagement: Findings From The Ernest A. Lynton Award For The Scholarship Of Engagement For Early Career Faculty, John Saltmarsh, Elaine Ward, Patti H. Clayton
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Three Key Challenges Facing Higher Education And Policymakers, Ellen Hazelkorn
Three Key Challenges Facing Higher Education And Policymakers, Ellen Hazelkorn
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Undergraduate Work Placement Programmes In Ireland: Issues And Solutions, Joan Buckley, Lyndsey El Amoud
Undergraduate Work Placement Programmes In Ireland: Issues And Solutions, Joan Buckley, Lyndsey El Amoud
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The purpose of this paper then is to address this gap and to explore the state of placement programmes in third level institutes in Ireland in the early twenty-first century. The paper will begin with an overview of the growing need for graduates to acquire improved employability skills, as this has become even more relevant in the current economic downturn. It will also review the existing literature on the benefits of placement for students, employers and higher education institutions. It will then present the results of the first comprehensive survey of placement in Irish HEIs which focused on the scale …
E-Learning Summer School: A Case Study, Frances Boylan
E-Learning Summer School: A Case Study, Frances Boylan
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In 2003, the then Learning Technology Team at the Technological University Dublin (DIT) ran, for the first time, a week-long boot camp-type event for its academic staff to facilitate their engagement with technology enhanced learning. That year over fifty academics attended the week which encompassed an innovative combination of workshops and reflective sessions exploring both existing and new technologies and their practical applications with students. The week was such a success that the E-Learning Summer School became a fixed event in the institute’s academic calendar. As an event it has gone from strength to strength, attracting a lot of outside …