The First Seven Weeks programme aims to support first year students during their first seven weeks at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Through Facebook, students are provided with support on topics such as finding ...

This article reports on a pilot library-support service offered to undergraduate Equine Science distance students in University of Limerick. The service, which began in 2001, started as a postal, e-mail and telephone service ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming increasingly common as a delivery method for many software products. The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick (UL) was the first university library in Ireland to move ...

The new information and communications technologies (ICTs) have become an indispensable tool for constructing networks and communities of practice, for accessing and managing knowledge, and for disseminating best ...

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 ...

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 ...

Presentation at LAI HSLG Annual Conference, 12th April 2013

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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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 ...