This page lists publications available for download or request. To see a full list of all NAIRTL resources, including video, audio, slides and reports, please use the Resources list link.
Proceedings of the National Academy's 5th Annual Conference. Designed and collated by Catherine O’Mahony, NAIRTL, with assistance from Avril Buchanan, UCC.
Subthemes: Students as Co-Creators of Knowledge, Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility, the First Year Experience, Engaging Large Classes, and Technology Enhanced Learning.
This conference was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI Galway.
This publication details the findings of a collaborative project examining the implications of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences for curriculum and assessment in Ireland.
The print version was published by the Education Department, University College Cork in April 2000. The digitised version is made available by NAIRTL.
Proceedings of the National Academy's 4th Annual Conference. Designed and collated by Catherine O'Mahony
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Full book of abstracts with conference programme from the National Academy's 4th Annual Conference on Flexible Learning held from 6-7 October in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin.
Title: In at the Deep End- starting to teach in Higher Education
Author: Bettie Higgs and Jacqueline Potter
Published by: NAIRTL
This book, adapted from an original text written by Phil Race, is designed to support postgraduate students who are beginning to teach. It includes sections on small group teaching, lecturing and assessment and this second edition contains additional case studies.
This publication costs €10 or can be purchased in conjunction with its sister publication "In At The Deep End: Postgraduate Students' Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" for the combined cost of €15.
Title: In At The Deep End: Postgraduate Students' Experiences
Author: James Cronin et al
Published by: NAIRTL
In At The Deep End: Postgraduate Students' Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Authors: James Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Marian McCarthy and Jacinta McKeon
This volume is based on the experiences of student teachers on the graduate studies module PG60003:"Teaching and Learning for Graduate Studies" run by Ionad Bairre, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University College Cork.
The cost for this publication is €10, but is available at the special price of €15 when ordered with original "In at the Deep End" publication.
Title: Making Connections: Intentional Teaching for Integrative Learning
Author: Bettie Higgs et al
Published by: NAIRTL
The promotion of student's integrative learning in Higher Education has always been a feature of effective curricula. In this volume we document examples of programmes/courses/activities that are designed intentionally to build students' capacity to be integrative thinkers and learners.
Authors: Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, and Tony Ryan
Title: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions
Author: Jennifer Murphy & Bettie Higgs
Published by: NAIRTL
Proceedings of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's second annual conference, hosted at Waterford Institute of Technology in November 2008
Title: Irish Educational Documents Volumes I - III
Author: Kenneth Milne, Ãine Hyland
Published by: NAIRTL
A selection of extracts from documents relating to the history of Irish education from the earliest times to 1922 available as PDF files on a CD. Volume 1 deals with the whole island of Ireland up to 1922; Volumes 2 and 3 deal separately with northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland from 1922 to the 1980s. Please note there will be a charge of €10.00 to cover the processing & postage of each CD. An invoice will issue with CD.
The 2007-9 UCD Fellowships in Teaching and Academic
Development scheme was conceived as a hybrid model to
support both the development of institutional academic leadership and educational solutions to strategically important issues at institutional level (Noonan & Redmond 2007). The scheme was made possible through a successful application for funding from the Higher Education Authority’s Strategic Initiative Fund (SIF 1).
Title: Qualification Recognition and Staff Mobility
Author: Dr Norma Ryan and Jennifer Murphy
Published by: NAIRTL
Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Symposia in the NAIRTL Bologna Series held at the CIT School of Music, Cork and the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.
Nearly 2700 survey responses were gathered from employers and the higher education sectors to elicit views on the integration of global generic competences into the curriculum.
First annual report covering the period February to December 2007. The first part of the report describes structures and strategies adopted by NAIRTL. The second part includes thirty case studies from partner institutions illustrating approaches to integrating research with teaching and learning.
A short, clear, readable handbook to introduce teachers to the concept of Learning Outcomes, and how to write them.
Learning outcomes express what students are expected to achieve, and how they are expected to demonstrate that achievement.
The 1999 Bologna Agreement committed all third level institutions in Europe to describe their modules and programmes in terms of learning outcomes by 2010.
Printed version only available - download the application form. NOTE that there is a 15 euro charge to cover printing and postage for this highly popular publication.
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on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Proceedings of an international conference held in University College Cork November 2007
Download is of speaker presentations only. Posters file is 27 Mb - please email NAIRTL to arrange method of transfer if you wish to access this material.
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