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AISHE Conference 2007
Teaching and Learning in the Changing World of Higher Education

30th & 31st August 2007
NUI Maynooth, Ireland



Full Programme


Thursday 30th August 2007 - Day 1

10.00am-12.00pm

Pre-Conference activities: NDLR workshops

11.30am onward

Arrival and Registration/Poster setup

Location: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUIM.

12.30pm -1.00pm

Warm-up Plenary

Communicate with conviction, commitment and control

A practical session designed to get you thinking about how you communicate with your students, and offering some concrete ideas on how to use your voice effectively.

Carmel O'Sullivan, Trinity College

1.00pm -1.45pm

Lunch

2pm - 2.15pm

Plenary Welcome Address

President of NUI Maynooth, Professor John Hughes

President of AISHE: Ms Sandra Griffiths

2.15pm - 3.00pm

Opening Keynote Address

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn, Dublin Institute of Technology

3.10pm - 3.50pm

Parallel Session 1

Anne Drummond. The use of a blended learning model to address the needs of a large diverse student group.

Francesca Lorenzi. Improving assessment feedback practice in a distance education context: The difficult road to shared meaning.

Fiona O'Riordan. Characteristics of a teaching pedagogy that creates a dynamic and engaging student learning environment.

Lydia Arnold. Real world research: Inquiry led undergraduate work-based learning in a virtual paradigm.

Linda Dowling and Orna Ryan. The role of study skills development and formative feedback in enhancing the learning experience.

Joanne Moles. Interrogating Inclusionary Practice with PETE students.

3.50pm - 4.20pm

Coffee/Poster Session

4.20pm - 5.00pm

Parallel Session 2

Elaine Walsh. Investigation of the effects of different assessment techniques on student study patterns.

Joan Ballantine and Patricia McCourt Larres. Accounting undergraduates' evaluation of cooperative learning as a model for enhancing their interpersonal and communication skills to interface successfully with professional accountancy education and training.

Brian Sitch and Louise Sutherland. Enquiry based learning in classics at Manchester.

Carol Barron, Veronica Lambert, Siobhan Mc Dermot and Yvonne Corcoran. Ready, steady, cook: a recipe to prepare staff for problem-based learning.

Ann Lahiff. Responding to Diversity? The use of task-based group work in H.E.

5.05pm-5.45pm

Parallel Session 3

Jaswinder Dhillon. E-learning: Innovative teaching and learning or strategic compliance?

Joan O'Grady. Catering for diversity.

Nuala Hunt. Introducing learning outcomes in an art and design college

Íde O'Sullivan, Caroline Graham, Catherine Jeanneau and Lawrence Cleary. The potential of a writing centre in developing academic and professional writing.

Alison Clancy. The relationship between beliefs of academics and the sustainability of a problem-based approach.

Steve Butts. Internationalisation: Home Truths and Home Students.

Terry Wareham. Deconstructing and Reconstructing `The Teaching-Research Nexus': Lessons from Art and Design.

7.00pm-7.30pm

Reception: Pugin Hall (including launch of AISHE publications)

7.30pm -

Conference Dinner: Pugin Hall


Friday 31st August 2007 - Day 2

9.00am-9.40am

Parallel Session 4

Jean Hughes. Managerialism as a driver for postgraduate teaching and learning qualifications.

Maggie Leese. Out of Class-Out of Mind? The use of a virtual learning environment to encourage student engagement with out of class activities.

Sarah Maguire. Developing staff to provide effective support for diverse student groups.

Eugene O'Loughlin and Prof Steven J. Osterlind. A study of blended assessment techniques in on-line testing.

Therese Leufer and Joanne Cleary-Holdforth. Transitions in teaching research: enhancing practice for undergraduate nurses.

Norman Powell. Developing professional skills in three professional programmes through enquiry-based learning.

Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy. Giving a European dimension to student curriculum: a case study on law with language degrees.

9.45am-10.25am

Parallel Session 5

Marion Palmer. Teaching in Institutes of Technology.

Karen O'Rourke. Developing the Developing Developers: an EBL approach to educational development.

Sandra Birrell. Problem-based learning on-line? Meeting the challenges of design and delivery.

Helen Fallon and Ellen Breen. The academic library: your partner in learning.

Rosario Hernandez. Learning-oriented assessment: beyond a marriage of convenience.

Gillian Shiel. Reflection and learning amongst diverse student groups in the workplace: examining the experience.

Alan Masson, Vilinda Ross and Aine McNeil. Changing teacher perceptions of the learner experience using a hybrid learning model.

10.25am-10.55am

Coffee/Poster Session

10.55am-11.35am

Parallel Session 6

Terry Barrett. Learning in Liminal Spaces.

James Derounian. Zen and the art of dissertation negotiation: How the student-staff relationship works.

Rachel Carkett. Preparing new academic staff for global students: An insider's perspective.

Marie Kelly. The effects that increasing numbers of mature students have on the pedagogical practices of lecturers in the Institutes of Technology.

Sylvia Huntley-Moore. Students' perceptions of the benefits of group work to develop generic skills.

Pawel Zeller and Bratosz Slawecki. How to wake up student engagement in the learning process - using CHOICE and flexible assessment. The explanatory case study..

Deirdre Connolly. Problem-based learning from the far side: Impact of PBL on professional practice.

11.45am-12.30pm

Keynote Address

Professor Brenda Smith, Higher Education Academy.

12.30pm-12.45pm

Interactive Session

12.45pm-1.15pm

Conference Close and AISHE AGM

1.15pm

Lunch (sit down or take away)


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