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Conversations on Teaching and Learning Seminar Recordings

2009

Discover - Expose - Impact

Speaker(s): Rosarie Coughlan and Gwen Ryan, James Hardiman Library

Date: Tue, October 20, 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Description: The modes, models and methods of research dissemination are changing. This seminar will examine open access to research; challenges, benefits and opportunities in ensuring global exposure and impact, increasingly vital in current climbs, as well as a critical overview of how NUI Galway authors can meet these challenges.

(Recording available for NUIG staff to access via the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Forum).

Researching Doctoral Students

Speaker: Professor Diana Leonard (Emeritus), Institute of Education, University of London

Date: Thursday, November 5 2009, 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Description: Diana became interested in studying research on doctoral students over ten years ago, and has subsequently been involved in various projects in the field. In this seminar, she will discuss her research in the context of recent debates in Britain, the USA and Australia about the 'fitness for purpose' of the PhD - and compare and contrast these with what is happening in Ireland and other parts of the EU. Different 'stakeholders' in the debate have different concerns and focus on different sorts of research students. But students' voices themselves are seldom heard even where they have real grounds to protest the limited support that universities provide for them.

(Recording available for NUIG staff to access via the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Forum).

On-line auto-graded assignments in economics: A test of their effectiveness

Speaker: Brendan Kennelly, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Description: There has been a great deal of interest in the use of computer-based automated assignment systems in economics. The most widely used of these applications is Aplia which was developed by Paul Romer in 2000. Aplia is a computer application designed to replace traditional tutorials and paper-based assignments in economics. Aplia appeals to educationalists who value the direct student interaction with the formative assessment plus immediate feedback on both summative and formative assessment. Aplia has been used by over 900,000 students at 950 institutions around the world and many publishers of leading economics textbooks have been developing similar products. Aplia have also developed similar services for other disciplines such as Accounting, Management, Marketing, Philosophy and Statistics This paper compares the effectiveness of Aplia and traditional paper-based assignments and tutorials using summative assessment results. We also assess the effectiveness of the two approaches by asking the students what they thought of the two methods. Given the complete absence of systematic evidence on the effectiveness of Aplia and other on-line automatically graded assessment methods, we believe this paper will be an important contribution to the economics and education literature.

(Recording available for NUIG staff to access via the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Forum).

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