Lessons with my students – Spring 2025
My preparations to teach two modules on the MSc in Project Management programme in the spring semester this year involved considerable reflexivity on my previous semester’s module (MN6001 Project Management Science and Principles). I knew that Leganto had considerable potential for use in module assessment and I was also keen to support student engagement of…
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Reflections from a curious educator at AHE 2025 (part 1)
As an alumna of the Educational Research Department at Lancaster University I regularly attend the Saturday PhD Study Days, hosted by Dr Ann-Marie Houghton. With my PhD now in the rear view mirror, these days are dedicated to writing and research projects. Late in 2024 I was thinking about what conference I might attend in…
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Erasmus+ not just for students!
I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree in 1987, just before the participation of the University of Limerick (UL) in the European Union’s Erasmus Programme, so I might be forgiven for thinking that the programme is just for students. Not so, staff mobility is an important part of the programme. So, after a successful visit to…
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My Vevox story
I could hardly turn down a kind invitation from Vevox to write a story on how I used the poll and survey features with my students during our first 6-week module of the academic year. This story was first published by Vevox in their series of Higher Education Stories | Education Stories for unmissable classes.…
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Lessons from my students – Autumn 2024
Until this semester I had not taught a class on campus since Spring 2022. Back then, and in the preceding decade, my classes consisted of about 30 postgraduate students, and I included a mix of slide presentation work along with class discussions, group work and so on to achieve the module learning outcomes. Resources included…
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Organising the chaos… Gantt charts
I was recently invited to give a talk to a group of research students at my university currently applying for funding from the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. Specifically, my topic was to be on Gantt charts since the programme application guidelines indicated that while not compulsory, applicants could certainly include one. From my…
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August 2024: Plus ça change…
Reflecting on 2023 I noted “As I look ahead to 2024, I expect the year to be less busy on a professional level but time will tell whether or not this turns out to be the case.” Halfway through 2024 I have published two journal papers, attended two conferences, given four conference presentations, completed my…
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Lessons from my students – Spring 2020
Spring 2020 has not been a normal time for anyone and we have all been affected one way or another by the global pandemic known as Covid-19. I lost half my small group of research students as circumstances deprioritised their research studies and they deferred to this summer. The primary module I lead at MSc.…
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Learning online to teach online – openly of course!
Note: This post was originally published on OpenTeach.ie I first came across OpenTeach in October 2019 as I browsed through the World Conference on Online Learning programme scheduled to take place in Dublin early in November. I knew that if I were to attend it would only be for one day and while the attraction…
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An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2018/19
Our module has come and gone, assessment work has been graded and it’s time for reflection. By that I mean my own reflection rather than yours, many of which have inspired this blog post (or ‘blessay’ given its length at just over 1,000 words) and your insightful direct quotes are scattered liberally throughout. Here goes……
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My name is Sandra and I am a teacher…
In last month’s post I referred to my planned research project for Module One of my structured PhD programme, the first draft of which is due for peer review in a week’s time. Being a logical sort of person, I drafted my introduction and literature review, in the knowledge that both will need to be edited during…
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An open letter to my students of #MN6052 AY2017/18
Featured image courtesy of Pixabay Our module has come and gone, assessment work has been graded and it’s time for reflection. By that I mean my own reflection since I’ve completed reviewing your submissions and that’s the topic of this blog post. At the start of the semester we struggled with dynamic interaction but I…
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