Ionad Bairre The Teaching and Learning Centre in association with The Graduate Studies Office, ucc

“In at the Deep End: Learning to Teach in Higher Education”

27 February 2014 9.30am – 3.30pm

North Wing Council Room
“In at the Deep End: Learning to Teach in Higher Education”
Programme

Time	Name	Title of Abstract
9.15am	Registration
9.30am	Introduction	Welcome Address Dr Liam Marnane, Dean of Graduate Studies
9.40am	Kevin O’Sullivan Law	A Strategy of ‘Hive and Connect’: Hierarchical Student Groupings in the Teaching of Law
9.50am	Nina Konstantinidou Microbiology	Making connections explicit in Microbiology
10.00am	Sean Whittaker Law	Teaching Mature Students as a Young Lecturer: The Issue of Active Engagement
10.10am	Lana Repar Food Business and Development	Balancing on the edge of two worlds in the same room: increasing participation and two-way communication in the class
10.20am	Louise Forde Law	Teaching Law for Mixed Ability Classes: Grounding Understanding and Developing Legal Skills
10.30am	Laleh Kasraian Business Information Systems	Improving Conceptualization Skills Traditional Challenge in Data Modeling Learning
10.40am	Rehan Ahmed Electrical Engineering	Enhancing the Teaching and Learning Experience in Control Engineering Labs
10.50am	Tea/coffee
11.10am	Marina Behnke German	Improving students' discussion skills in the German language
11.20am	Karen Lennon Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy	Group Work: How do I engage all of the students?
11.30am	Lydia Bracken Law	Encouraging active engagement by all of the students
11.40am	Sean Power Accounting & Finance	Encouraging interaction in Tutorials
11.50am	Kellie Morrissey School of Applied Psychology	Fostering student participation in an e-learning module using Articulate Studio
12.00pm	Timothy Mawe Philosophy	Building student confidence in a philosophy tutorial
12.10pm	Aidan Flanagan Sociology	“The Written Word is a Lie?” Assessing Competency in Language Use in Sociology
12.20pm	Ashling Murphy School of Nursing & Midwifery	Effective Communication between Mature Students and Teacher
12.30pm	Light Lunch	POSTER PEER-REVIEW SESSION

Time	Name	Title of Abstract
1.00pm	Eoin O’ Callaghan School of English	“We Have Ways of Making You Talk”: Fostering Student Participation in Third-Level Education
1.10pm	James Sweeney History (International Relations	Assessing student progress through continual discourse
1.20pm	Margaret Buckley Applied Social Studies and History	Quizzing Interaction: Experimentation with Participation
1.30pm	Samantha Cushen Food and Nutritional Sciences	Enhancing Engagement and Class Participation
1.40pm	Elsa Giraud Chemistry	Encouraging experimentation in practical classes
1.50pm	Michalis Poupazis Music	A Multicultural Mature Students’ Case: Dissatisfying Scholarly Flavours of Imagery
2.00pm	Alexandra Ntemiri Microbiology Department	Using multicultural classroom to motivate learners
2.10pm	Hazzaa Alshareef Computer Science	Encouraging interaction: decreasing monologue
2.20pm	Siobhán O’Byrne Law	Encouraging student participation in a family law tutorial
2.30pm	Seyed Mohammad Amin Mousavinejad Business Information Systems	The impact of having two sets of practice examples on keeping students interested for computer science labs
2.40pm	Mark Kennedy Physics	Quantum Mechanics: The Unintuitive Logic
2.50pm	Claire McGrath School of History	Making connections in an interdisciplinary programme
3.00pm	Rosemary O’Sullivan Law	Active student engagement and success in achieving Learning Outcomes
3.10pm	Fiona Clancy Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies	Getting the Students to Engage: The Debate Approach
3.20pm	Fionn Woodhouse Drama and Theatre Studies	Using practical life experience to enhance student learning
3.30pm	Niamh O’Mahony School of English	Lack of engagement: Remedy for improved student learning
3.40pm	Close