Teaching and learning in higher education : challenging assumptions : proceedings of the second annual conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning / editors: Jennifer Murphy and Bettie Higgs.

"November 2009."

[PART 1: Keynote speeches and debate] Helping out students: integrating learning, metalearning and threshold concepts / E. Meyer -- Using personal response technology to enhance student engagement / T. Haffie -- Understanding student feedback in the quality assurance process / S. Kelly -- Assessment as a learning experience / M. Price -- Grade inflation: arguing that improved student grades are a valid reflection of improvements in teaching and learning / A. Hyland -- Grade inflation: arguing that improved student grades are not a valid reflection of improvements in teaching and learning / M. O'Grady

[PART 2: Conference paper presentations] Stimulating student engagement in modern language learning through podcasting and student response systems: a preliminary survey of findings to date / T. Arnold & Y. Vovides -- The one minute paper: a case study of assessment in innovation at third level / E. Barnes -- The learning innovation framework: fostering staff development / A. Brennan & N. Fitzpatrick -- Teaching innovations and the challenges of curriculum development for non-traditional students / F. Buckley et al... -- Using virtual classes to deliver health and safety training in the construction industry / M. Carney et al... -- Uptake and usage of virtual learning environments: findings from a muti-institutional student survey / R. Cosgrave et al... -- Digital utopia or dystopia: should educators assume information literacy? / J. Cronin -- The threshold concept paradigm and student use of textbooks / B. Foley -- Challenging assumptions in language learning and teaching: a content and language integrated learning experience at WIT / A. Furlong at al... -- Threshold concepts: enabling open dialogue on teaching and learning within and across traditional boundaries / A. Graham & J. Potter -- Teaching and learning active citizenship: an investigation of service learning in the postgraduate classroom / C. Harris -- Addressing the challenge of studying accounting and finance: initial reflections on the role of a subject support centre / M. Healy et al... -- Making connections: the irish integrative learning project / B. Higgs et al... -- The return of the teacher / A. Jordan -- Challenging the assumption that art cannot be taught / P. Jordan & C. Hansen -- Action and research: challenging teaching and learning assumptions in an executive development programme / F. Kelliher & S. Byrne -- Challenging the assumption that emotional intelligence is too "wishy-washy" for third-level education: insights from an institutional case study / C. Lowry -- To marry or not to marry formative and summative assessment / K. McSweeney -- From field reserch to the teaching classroom: gull populations and mathematical modelling / M. O'Callaghan -- A novel challenge: student engagement, language teaching and the service learning approach / A. O'Connor -- The use of practical social care research to develop a holistic social care best practice manual / T. O'Connor -- A national study of the attitudes of Irish dental faculty members to faculty development / E. O'Sullivan -- "Learning by doing": can we assume that problem based learning (PBL) facilitates lifelong self-directed learning skills? / C. Pettigrew -- How can technology be used efficiently to support communication, collaboration and assessment with the problem based learning process? / L. Widger & S. Dunne

[PART 3: Conference poster presentations] Can you get the point without the points? / O. Byrne -- Teaching for understanding - linking theory to practice in postgraduate nursing education / C. Dalton -- Teaching for understanding - celebrating the contribution of students in intellectual disability nursing / E. Drummon et al... -- On-campus learning: rethinking outside the classroom / M. Gallo -- Online graduate student's perceptions of effective instructor feedback / B. Getzlaf et al... -- A systematic review of the impact of post-registration nursing and midwifery education on practice / H. Gijbels et al... -- Is video conferencing just an expensive gimmick as a teaching method or not? / M. Harrington & S. Murray -- Merging two technologies to develop student nurses clinical competences / I. Hartigan et al... -- Inter-professional teamwork in medical education: diabetes care as a case study / P. Henn et al... -- Teaching for understanding team approach: circle of change / M. Collins et al... -- The big drum and other things: inclusion through participatory methods / D. Horgan -- Challenging assumptions: that medical and nurse education are essentially scientific / P. Jordan -- Challenging the assumption of the passive role of patients in the hospital learning environment / A. Joy et al... -- Small group learning (SGL): a PBL-based approach to teaching and learning in an integrated curriculum for a graduate entry programme in medicine / R. Kennedy at al... -- Re-designing a curriculum to achieve integration and reflect the values of student and client centeredness / R. Lyons et al... -- Teaching for understanding in context: teaching day students compared to teaching on the evening degree programme / M. Mac Carron -- The influence of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training programme on challenging nursing students attitudes and willingness to perform life-saving interventions / C. Madden et al... -- Autoethnography: informing the present based on the past / J. Malone -- Teaching for understanding in curriculum development: raising awareness of disability issues in primary care / L. Marsh -- Continuous assessment - rubics and uncovering student misconceptions / K. McCarthy -- Doing research to learn about research: challenging assumptions in occupational therapy / P. McGowan -- Creating active learners - finding out what they know / V. McManus -- Using student presentations for learning and assessment at undergraduate level / A. Dwyer -- Learning styles of level 7 first year engineering students at DIT / A. Dwyer -- Students with disabilities at university college cork graduate and achieve success on parity with their peers in professional degree programmes / M. O'Grady -- Accessing multiple intelligences in science / N. O'Leary -- Tailoring in the practice of teaching and learning / A. O'Riordan -- The learning journal as a human rights learning tool: a novel approach to human rights education / S. O'Tuama -- Classroom assessment techniques: are they beneficial in demonstrating students learning and understanding in a first year nursing communications module? / S. Power -- Challenging times: the changing face of nurse education in Ireland: implications for novice nurse educators / S. Power et al... -- Care program challenging assumptions in paediatric education about complementary medicine / S. Surette et al....

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