Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Engineering Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2009

Conference papers

Academic change

Articles 1 - 1 of 1

Full-Text Articles in Engineering

Response Of Academics To Demands For Change In Engineering Education, Kevin Kelly Jan 2009

Response Of Academics To Demands For Change In Engineering Education, Kevin Kelly

Conference papers

This paper attempts to show what academics and other stakeholders think about academic change in an Institute of Technology in Ireland as this HEI attempts to respond to a rapidly changing external s becoming a university and moving to a new campus on a green field site. It is a summary of aspects of a doctoral thesis undertaken by an experienced academic that set out to explore how the unprecedented challenges now facing higher education internationally might best be met in the Dublin Institute of Technology. It is insider research and this paper identifies and examines barriers and enablers to …