• 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)

  no abstract available
• 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 ...
• Developing a regional approach to outstanding teaching and learning: a case study 

  Vaughan, Elaine; Fitzpatrick, Mary (EDIN Publications, 2013)

                             It has often been acknowledged that teaching in higher education is afforded a relatively low status when compared to its more lucrative relation, research, and this is echoed in the ...
• Introduction: Peer writing tutors’ narratives 138 the role of the student experience in shaping academic writing development in higher education: the peer writing tutors’ perspective 

  O'Sullivan, Íde; Cleary, Lawrence (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, 2012)

  On 29 June 2011, 280 delegates interested in the teaching, tutoring, research, administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe descended upon the University of Limerick to discuss the role ...
• Technology enhanced distance learning utilising Sakai CLE and Adobe Connect Pro 

  McCourty, Juley; Risquez, Angelica (IGI Global, 2010)

  On-line environments have been incorporated in the Distance learning programmes of the International Equine Institute (IEI) in order to address concerns about streamlining assessment turn-around, distance student attendance ...
• E-mentoring: an extended practice, an emerging discipline 

  Risquez, Angelica (IGI Global, 2008)

  This chapter integrates existing literature and developments on electronic mentoring to build a constructive view of this modality of mentoring as a qualitatively different concept from its traditional face-to-face version. ...
• Anti-plagiarism software in an Irish University: three years later 

  Risquez, Angelica (IGI Global, 2010)

  A variety of anti-plagiarism software applications have appeared in recent years, but the pedagogical and institutional practices underpinning their use remains largely unexplored. It is essential to increase the amount ...
• Evaluación de un modelo de orientación tutorial y mentoría en la educación superior a distancia 

  Sánchez García, Marifé; Manzano Soto, Nuria; Risquez, Angelica; Suárez Ortega, Magdalena (Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2011)

  En la validación del programa se empleó un diseño complejo de investigación evaluativa, del proceso y del producto, utilizando para la obtención de datos cuestionarios ad hoc, entrevistas, diarios, registros y grupos de ...
• Online student evaluations of teaching: what are we sacrificing for the affordances of technology? 

  Risquez, Angelica; Vaughan, Elaine; Murphy, Maura (Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2015)

  In the context of increased emphasis on quality assurance of teaching, it is crucial that student evaluations of teaching (SET) methods be both reliable and workable in practice. Online SETs particularly tend to raise ...
• Learning resources and open access in higher education institutions in Ireland 

  Risquez, Angelica; McAvinia, Claire; O'Keeffe, Anne; Bruen, Catherine; Desmond, Yvonne; Rooney, Pauline; Flynn, Sharon; Ryan, Deirdre; Farr, Fiona; Marcus-Quinn, Ann; Coughlan, Ann (NDLR: National Digital Learning Resources, 2015)

  Over the past decade or so the open education movement has continued to gather momentum in higher education, spurred on by increasing demand for more flexible education options; by the potential of developments in ...
• The jury is still out: psychoemotional support in peer e-mentoring for transition to university 

  Risquez, Angelica; Sanchez-Garcia, Maria Fe (Elsevier, 2012)

  This study investigates how computer mediated communication (CMC) can sustain nourishing and emotionally enriching peer mentoring relations. A peer electronic mentoring program was implemented in an Irish university to ...

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