• Safety first: factors affecting preceptor midwives experiences of competency assessment failure among midwifery students 

  Bradshaw, Carmel; Pettigrew, Judith; Fitzpatick, Mary (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background Assessment of clinical practice is a core component of midwifery education. Clinical assessment is challenging and affected by a number of factors. Preceptor midwives are reported to be reluctant to fail ...
• Transforming the university library one step at a time: a ten year LibQUAL + review 

  McCaffrey, Ciara (Taylor and Francis: Routledge, 2019)

  University libraries are going through a period of enormous transformation and have been for some time. This study considers ten years of both incremental and transformational change at the University of Limerick (UL) ...
• Career choice motivational profiles in first year university students: Perfiles motivacionales de electión de estudios en estudiantes universitarios de nuevo ingreso 

  Inés García-Ripa, María; Fe Sánchez-García, María; Risquez, Angelica (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana * Facultad de Psicologia, 2018)

  This study examines the career choice motivations of first year students in the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and describes a classification of the student characteristics that are associated with these motivations. ...
• Engaging students through the VLE: comparing like with like using the #VLEIreland student survey 

  Raftery, Damien; Risquez, Angelica (Irish Learning Technology Association, 2018)

  Virtual learning environments (VLEs) provide the core infrastructure for the digital learning experiences for many students in Irish and international higher education institutions. Hence the student experience and voice ...
• ‘Lessons Learnt’: the student view in the #VLEIreland project 

  Ryan, Deirdre; Risquez, Angelica (Irish Learning Technology Association, 2018)

  This paper offers an overview of general results and of longitudinal aspects of the data collected to date from student populations which generated from the #VLEIreland project. We argue how results shed light on common ...
• MOOCs and educational sustainability? An educational developer's perspective 

  Risquez, Angelica (Lifewide Education UK, 2018)

  This article explores the author's views and open questions on the potential use of different open educational approaches to promote educational and professional sustainability. The debate is contextualised around my ...
• Editorial: The #VLE Ireland project 

  McAvinia, Claire; Risquez, Angelica (Irish Learning Technology Association, 2018)

  A decade after Martin Weller’s proclamation that ‘The VLE/LMS Is Dead’ (2007) was met with widespread acclaim and debate, virtual learning environments (VLEs) remain pervasive in most higher education institutions (HEIs) ...
• The VLE versus open education 

  Risquez, Angelica; McAvinia, Claire (2018)

  In this paper we consider the position of the VLE in the context of the open education movement. This paper gathers data from the #VLEIreland survey in order to explore further whether open education was a concern of the ...
• Transformative CPD in our library workforce; using Open Digital Badges as accreditation in Rudaí23 

  Breen, Michelle; Meen, Kris; Ronan, Stephanie (2018)

  A digital open badge is an online method of validating informal learning and achievements in education and professional development.
• Making every seat count: space management at peak times in a university library 

  Breen, Michelle; Dundon, Mary; McCaffrey, Ciara (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

  This study explores the library equivalent of the towels on deck chairs phenomenon of students reserving library seats: the practice of leaving personal belongings unattended at a library study space for long periods of ...
• Introduction: language learning and technology 

  Farr, Fiona; Murray, Liam (Routledge, 2016)

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• Creative approaches to teaching graduate research methods workshops 

  Reilly, Peter (Bergen Open Access Publishing, 2017)

  Engagement and deeper learning were enhanced by developing several innovative teaching strategies delivered in Research Methods workshops to Graduate Business Students. Focusing primarily on students adopting a creative ...
• Current developments around open education in Irish higher education 

  Risquez, Angelica (2017)

  This paper explores open educational practice in the context of the recommendations by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Digital Roadmap around open education (National Forum, 2015); and a ...
• Breeding bird species diversity across gradients of land use from forest to agriculture in Europe 

  Koivula, Matti J.; Chamberlain, Dan E.; Fuller, Robert J.; Palmer, Stephen C. F.; Bankovics, Attila; Bracken, Fintan; Bolger, Tom; de Juana, Eduardo; Montadert, Marc; Neves, Renato; Rufino, Rui; Sallent, Angel; Lopes da Silva, Luís; Leitão, Pedro J.; Steffen, Manfred; Watt, Allan D. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2017)

  Loss, fragmentation and decreasing quality of habitats have been proposed as major threats to biodiversity world-wide, but relatively little is known about biodiversity responses to multiple pressures, particularly at very ...
• Digital literacies for language learning and teaching: developing a national framework 

  Farr, Fiona; Murray, Liam (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016)

  In an Irish national setting, the urgent need to address the national language skills' shortage has been highlighted in numerous arenas, and in the context of the need for a continued economic recovery, language skills ...
• Quiet in the library: an evidence-based approach to improving the student experience 

  McCaffrey, Ciara; Breen, Michelle (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)

  This article deals with the management of noise in an academic library by outlining an evidence-based approach taken over seven years by the University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. The objective of this study ...
• 'Thou shalt not plagiarise’: from self-reported views to recognition and avoidance of plagiarism 

  Risquez, Angelica; O'Dwyer, Michele; Ledwith, Ann (Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2013)

  Throughout much of the literature on plagiarism in higher education, there is an implicit assumption that students who understand plagiarism, who have high ethical views and declare not to engage in plagiaristic behaviour ...
• Digital literacy...........a skill for life 

  Dore, Liz; McSharry, Blaneth (2015)
• All aboard. Empowering staff and students to flourish in the digital age 

  Dore, Liz; McSharry, Blaneth (2016)
• Learning strategies and motivational auto-regulation. Profiling for first year university guidance 

  Garcia-Ripa, Maria Ines; Sanchez-Garcia, Maria Fe; Risquez, Angelica (2016)

  This investigation describes the design of the Strategies and Motivation for University Study Questionnaire (CEMEU in is version in Spanish) and its administration with a sample of 1,708 first year students at the Pontifical ...

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