NAIRTL Grants Initiative - Successful applicants 2010
Please find below details of the grants funded by the 2010 Grants Initiative. In total 165 applications were received for consideration from 21 Higher Education Institutes.
Funding was available at either of two levels:
A selection committee met in June to assess the applications and unanimously agreed that the following proposals should be funded. Congratulations to all those listed below. NAIRTL looks forward to the commencement of these very worthy projects, the outcomes of which will be widely disseminated.
| Team Leader | Institution | Department | Project Title | Award |
| Ms Sherrie Buckley | University of Limerick | Occupational Therapy | Exploring the usefeulness of public and private blogging during practice education placements: Perspectives of occupational therapy students from the University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin.(Details) | Small grant |
| Ms Maura Conway | University College Cork | Food Industry, Science Engineering and Food Science | Development of resources to enable the delivery of undergraduate modules by distance as part of a new flexible degree in Food Science with Business.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Teresa Curtin | University of Limerick | Chemical & Environmental Science | Retaining weaker students in undergraduate Science Programmes: the design, development and evaluation of an intervention programme in chemistry for first and second year students in third level education.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr David Ditchburn | Trinity College Dublin | History | Investigating the Book of Kells: learning through Art and Science.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Elaine Doyle | University of Limerick | Accounting & Finance | An Interdisciplinary approach to enhancing the ethical responsibility of undergraduate students.(Details) | Small grant |
| Ms Aideen Gallagher | NUI Galway | Occupational Therapy | Development and evaluation of a pioneering self instructional video on an egronomic method of executing a hoist transfer. (A hoist is a mechanical device used by a carer to transfer a non weight bearing person from one item of equipment to another).(Details) | Small grant |
| Ms Barbara Geraghty | University of Limerick | Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication | Development of digital leaning object for teaching recongition and writing of 100 elementary kanji ('Chinese') characters for zero beginner learners of Japanese as a foreign language.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Olivia Gill | University of Limerick | Maths and Statistics | The implementation and evaluation of small group, problem based learning approaches to tutorial support for first year undergraduate mathematics modules for sicence and technology students.(Details) | Small grant |
| Professor Josephine Hegarty | University College Cork | Nursing & Midwifery | An online support package for trained Preceptors (registered Nurse/Midwife), Student Nurses and Student Midwives which provides an overview of the clinical assessment process.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Mark Kelly | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | Building and Civil Engineering | SitePass- The development of a Virtual Learning Environment for a passive house construction technology module.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Órla Lahart | National College of Ireland | Computing | The design and development of a Problem Based Learning induction resource to equip students with the skills necessary for successful participation in any Problem Based Learning module.(Details) | Small grant |
| Mr Jonathan Lambert | National College of Ireland | Student Support Services (Mathematics Support) | Development of an adaptive tutoring system for a Computing and Business Mathematics module as a way to facilitate self-directed learning through the use of the online VLE Moodle. (Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Aisling Leavy | Mary Immaculate College Limerick | Language/Mathematics Education | Developing an enquiry led approach to teaching in primary classrooms: the production of video case studies of best practices in the teaching of primary mathematics. (Details) | Small grant |
| Mr Patrick Marshall | NUI Maynooth | Computer Science | Development of a semi-automated tool to support co-assessment and the use of reflective learning logs for group based projects. (Details) | Small grant |
| Professor Geraldine MacCarrick | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | Medical Education | The development and evaluation of an interactive case-based Virtual Learning tool designed to improve undergraduate students' understanding of patient safety and its role in minimising the incidence and impact of adverse events. (Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin | NUI Galway | Italian | Flcaptions: interactive website for foreign langaage learning through interlingual subtitling of video clips.(Details) | Small grant |
| Ms Miriam McSweeney | Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | Business Studies | An investigation into cultural context and the impact upon the use of technology in a third level college in the Republic of Ireland.(Details) | Small grant |
| Ms Niamh O'Meara | University of Limerick | National Centre for Excellence in Maths & Science Teaching & Learning | Helping prospective Mathematics teachers progress on the ladder of knowledge: an innovative approach to teacher training.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Michael O'Rourke | Athlone IT | Electronic & Computer Engineering | The development of lessons, case studies, scenarios and simulations in the Moodle virtual learning environment for self-directed learning.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr James Power | NUI Maynooth | Computer Science | Improving first year experience with discrete mathematics for computing students through the development of a software-based environment for formative assessment and applied learning.(Details) | Small grant |
| Dr David Sammon | University College Cork | Business Information Systems | An international collaboration to develop a web-based pedgagogical tool to simplify theoretical research for students and doctoral researchers.(Details) Sammon, D., Nagle, T., O'Reilly, P. and Finnegan, P, P. (2011) "Design of a pedagogical artefact for doctoral researchers to assess theoretical strength", in the Proceedings of the 19th European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2011). Paper presented in Helsinki, Finland 6th to 9th June 2011 | Small grant |
| Dr Breda Sweeney | NUI Galway | Acccountancy & Finance | Understanding Simon's interactive controls: Teaching cases for management accounting control systems.(Details) | Small grant |
| Mr Guiseppe Torre | University of Limerick | Computer Science and Information Systems | The development of an information resource aimed at digital media students and practitioners that focuses on communication protocols and gives relevant examples of their use. (Details) | Small grant |
| Dr Stephan Weibelzahl | National College of Ireland | Computing | How do you Moodle? Improving student's learning experience of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in Higher Education.(Details) | Small grant |
| Team Leader | Institution | Department | Project Title | Award |
| Professor Terrence McDonough | NUI Galway | Economics | Active approaches to the study of the great Irish famine.(Details) | Large grant |
| Professor Mark Dyer | Trinity College Dublin | Engineering | The development of the second year Engineering Design course, through the introduction of an online virtual learning system and the creation of an embryonic network of innovative schools of engineering around the world.(Details) | Large grant |
| Dr Lorraine McGinty | University College Dublin | Computer Science & Informatics | Leading innovations in graduate education beyond horizons: addressing graduate-specific professional training needs through negotiation and integration of cross-disciplinary T&L with co-operative research partnership.(Details) | Large grant |
| Professor Eamonn Murphy | University of Limerick | Enterprise Research Centre | Leveraging expertise in distance learning to Enhance education for Ireland's post-experience learners.(Details) | Large grant |
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