Showcase - UCD Teaching & Learning

Martha Ní Riada: Academic Advising - the student perspective

How can academic advising help you? Martha Ní Riada, UCD Students' Union President, talks about the benefits she gained and shares her advice for other students.

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Professor Marie Clarke: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

How does academic advising help give students a sense of belonging? Professor Marie Clarke, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, talks about her own experience of academic advising as a student.

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Dr Gavin Stewart: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

What do students gain from academic advising? Dr Gavin Stewart, UCD College of Science, gives examples of the help and support offered by an academic advisor.

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Theresa Schilling: Academic Advising - the student perspective

What are the benefits of academic advising? Theresa Schilling, studying in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, shares how an academic advisor helped her.

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John Melia: Academic Advising - the student perspective

How can an academic advisor help during your UCD studies? John Melia, a student in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, talks about the support and guidance he gained from academic advising.

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Professor Emma Sokell: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

How does an academic advisor engage with students? Professor Emma Sokell, UCD College of Science, reflects on her experiences as an academic advisor.

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Professor Jonathan McNulty: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

How does academic advising help students through their studies? Professor Jonathan McNulty, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, recalls his experience of supporting students as an advisor

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Olivia McKevitt: Academic Advising - the student perspective

How does academic advising work? Olivia McKevitt, a student in the UCD College of Science, talks about the help and insights she has received from meeting with her academic advisor.

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Elliot Meinert: Academic Advising - the student perspective

What help and advice can an academic advisor give you? Elliot Meinert, studying in the UCD College of Arts and Humanities, shares his experiences of what he gained from academic advising.

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Dr Jonathan Ilan: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

What does academic advising mean for advisors? Dr Jonathan Ilan, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, talks about how it is an opportunity to engage with students on their academic progress.

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Associate Professor Jennifer Keenahan: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

What is academic advising? Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Keenahan, UCD College of Engineering & Architecture, talks about her role as an academic advisor and how she helps students during their time at UCD.

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Stanislaus O'Beirne: Academic Advising - the student perspective

How can academic advising help you manage the demands of your studies? Stanislaus O'Beirne, a student in the UCD College of Engineering and Architecture, shares his experiences and advice.

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Amber Madden Doyle: Academic Advising - the student perspective

How does academic advising support your career options? Amber Madden Doyle, a student in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, talks about the guidance she received from academic advising.

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Dónal O’Shea: Academic Advising - the student perspective

What happens in academic advising? Dónal O'Shea, studying in the UCD College of Business, shares his experiences and offers his advice on how to get the most out of the process.

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Gráinne Johnston: Academic Advising - the student perspective

What support can academic advising provide to you? Gráinne Johnston, studying in the UCD College of Arts and Humanities, tells of how her academic advisor gave her reassurance and guidance.

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Improving the consistency of the 1st year laboratory experience in UCD Science

This initiative developed 5 short videos aimed at explaining the theoretical concepts behind a number of second-year physics lab experiments.

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Communication Skills Project – Using innovation when face with limitations

This initiative aimed to develop an online open access, interactive, communication video repository to enhance communication in the professional field of veterinary medicine.

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Cross-disciplinary Student Creation of 3D Learning Resources in Anatomy

This initiative set out to facilitate students to create their own educational resources, using 3D printing technologies pairing medicine and engineering students in teams to work together.

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E-learning supports for Regulatory Affairs & Toxicology

This initiative aimed to enhance the student learning experience for our in-person MSc students and increase student confidence and self-efficacy in toxicological and regulatory affairs topics.

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Putting the ‘Multi’ into Multimedia Instruction in Neuroanatomy

This initiative proposed to create physical representations of the digital content previously created in AXON to bring the content to life for in-class engagement and group interaction.

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Improving Teaching and Learning with EDI awareness

This initiative explored ways to improve the quality of T&L experience by embedding EDI training into teaching assistants’ training courses for T&L enhancement withing and across disciplines.

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Implementation of veterinary business management education using blended learning across the veterinary medicine curriculum.

This initiative aimed to enhance veterinary business management education within the professional growth strand of the veterinary medicine curriculum using blended learning.

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UG Research Accelerator for the Social Sciences

The initiative aimed to provide professional basic training in video production skills to students on the Digital Skills module, equipping them to create their own videos to add to the module content.

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Augmented Reality (AR) - Enhanced Multimedia Business Case Study Teaching

The initiative aimed to enhance student's professional collaborative skills and their practical understanding of global business development, with students collaborating in virtual project teams.

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Formalizing and Expanding Academic Advising Practices in the School of Civil Engineering

This project set out to formalize and significantly expand academic advising practices in the UCD School of Civil Engineering and to develop and evaluate a hybrid-model of academic advising.

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Academic Advising in Science

This project set out to understand the students experience with advisory information and develop an interactive tool to help students navigate the DN200 science programme pathways.

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Development of Self-Assessment Tool

This project aimed to develop a self-assessment tool for undergraduate students to reflect on their academic progress and assess their needs for academic advising.

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Academic Advising in BA and BAH programmes

This project aimed to better support BA and BAH students when making key programme decisions. Learning pathways for two Brightspace modules were produced with a number of interactive elements.

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Academic Advising in the Global Leadership Programme

This project places students and their development needs and aspirations at the heart of the programme and provides a framework for addressing needs and aspirations in a supportive way.

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Enhancing academic advice here at UCD: Is it simply a matter of time?

The project aimed to increase academic advice on a wide variety of topics, such as programme choice, careers and educational development for four SBES programmes.

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TILL21 – Toolkit for Impactful Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century

This project aimed to develop a toolkit which would provide resources to enable academics consider their current processes that support academic advising mainly for mature and part-time students.

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Academic Advising in Social Science

The project aimed to systematically review and evaluate the existing mentoring programme. The research outcomes were seen as providing the evidence base required to enhance our current approach.

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Beyond Progression: Academic Advising for Community Drugs Programme Students

This project aimed to provide a range of tiered academic advising workshops and engagements for intending, current and postgraduate Community Drug Programme progression students.

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Finding Your Way in Food Science

The aim of this project was to expand the current academic mentoring system to ensure it meets the needs of Stage 1 Food Science students.

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TESLAA: TEchnology supported Student Learning and development through Appreciative Advising

The project aimed to design and deploy a student-centred mobile app to support academic advising based on an approach called appreciative advising.

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Staying ConnectED - Connecting Advisory Supports for Students in the School of Education

This project aimed is to formalise, and bring coherence to, the student advising services provided in UCD initial teacher education (ITE) programmes.

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Academic Advising ADAPT Humanities Student Support

This project set out to establish a proactive student contact mechanism to make targeted early interventions with students, providing early assistance to connect students to necessary supports.

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Academic Literacy Support

This project aimed to design an Academic Advising Disciplinary Literacy framework that can be integrated across the undergraduate nursing/midwifery curriculum.

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Evaluating, Enhancing and Expanding Academic Advising in the Sutherland School of Law

The aim of this project was to recommend suggestions and implement initiatives to enhance the current academic advisor programme in the School of Law.

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A Framework to Support Student-Academic Advising Interactions for Students on Clinical Work Placements in the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

This project aimed to develop a Conversational Framework and support resources, in the context of clinical veterinary workplace learning, to support the pedagogy of academic advising.

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Metacognition in Psychology of Sport and Health

This video showcases the use of our Metacognition Design Framework and 'I-SEE' learning approaches in the module, 'The Psychology of Sport and Health II' (Health & Performance Science).

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Metacognition in Veterinary Clinical Neurology

This video showcases the practical application of our Metacognition Design Framework and 'I-SEE' learning approaches in the undergraduate module, 'Veterinary Clinical Neurology' (Veterinary Medicine).

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Metacognition in the module DigiLife

This video case study showcases the use of our Metacognition Design Framework and 'I-SEE' learning approaches in the module "DigiLife: Social Media & Participation in an Online World Case Study"

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Co-Creating a Tutor Training Module for Arts and Humanities

This initiative set out to work with existing postgraduate tutors in order to develop high quality professional training in university teaching and learning for all Arts and Humanities tutors.

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Active Student-Led Learning Practices in Financial Mathematics via Coding Languages and a FinTech Analytics Suite

This initiative set out to design specific lab activities based on VBA, Python and a FinTech software (FAS) in order to enrich financial mathematics theory and in turn the computational learning.

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Developing an Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Framework (The EVIBEC Project)

This project set out to develop a novel, cross-discipline, vertically integrated framework and associated resources to optimise the teaching, learning and assessment of Evidence Based Practice (EBP).

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Intercultural Development Programme (ICD)

The first of its kind in Ireland, UCD Smurfit School’s ICD programme offers a unique research-driven approach to systematically develop students’ key skills, particularly intercultural competence.

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Resources for Experimental Learning of the Disability Environment for the New Module (MIS20090 Design Thinking)

This project sought support for the purchase of resources and learning tools for the analysis, design and redesign of digital/spatial environments impacting people with different accessibility needs.

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Using Problem-Based Learning in International Relations Tutorials

This initiative set out to introduce UCD tutors to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method, aiming to enhance student learning and engagement.

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Engaging Teaching and Learning Experiences Using Lightboard Technology

This initiative introduced new Lightboard technology aiming to capture hand written content and retain student engagement in the classroom, tasks especially challenging in large auditoriums.

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Video Production Fundamentals for Practical’s and Instructional Videos

This initiative introduced Academics to fundamental Video Production skills through online course, aiming to streamline and frontload essential theoretical concepts reinforced by active participation.

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Project IV: Student Veterinary Clinical Skills Learning Online

The UCD School of Veterinary Medicine recruited 132 students in project aimed to improve stock recourses and model innovation of intravenous catheter in their Clinical Skills Centre.

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Living Multilingually: Online Tools for Empowering Language Learners in Transition

This initiative aimed to empower students to recognise and assert the value of their experiences as language users and learners.

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Developing a Tutor Training and Recognition Programme

This initiative set out to collaborate with faculty, staff and students to create and implement a College-wide tutor training and recognition programme for the College of Social Sciences and Law.

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Fulfilling Potential: Supporting Community Engagement Progression Students

This project aimed to enhance the successful outcomes for students considering and taking up the progression pathway towards undergraduate degree programme.

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Tackling Stress in UCD Biology Students

The School of Biology & Environmental Science and the School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science set out understand how stress affects both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Lo-Fi(Delity) Simulations of Dynamics for Hi-Fi(Delity) Understanding

This initiative set out to demonstrate how low-fidelity simulated models can provide insight towards nonlinear dynamical systems and their behavior, aiming to outline their use in teaching & learning.

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Building and Developing Student Capabilities in Digital Preservation

The aim of this initiative was to enable students to gain practical experience of working with born-digital records and preservation systems, building their confidence for when becoming professional.

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A Concrete Approach to Learning Algebraic Coding Theory Using a Computer Algebra System

This initiative aimed to introduce the students to the Magma computational algebra system and especially aimed to enhance student learning of algebraic coding theory.

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Human Learning: Promoting Students' Personal Abilities for Success at College

This initiative aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an undergraduate module designed to promote students’ psychosocial competencies important for managing their own learning at college.

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Looking Through the Green Lens

The UCD Library aimed to enhance student's teamwork, communication skills and understanding of digital technology through a group competition directed towards promotion of green awareness.

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UCD Community Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Community of Practice

This initiative set out to provide supportive network for faculty, academics and students to share learning, enhance understanding and improve practice in community engaged learning and teaching.

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Improving Access to Practical Elements of Environmental Engineering

This project is about the development of a suite of digital resources to decrease time in the field and laboratory, increase the number of sessions and better facilitate distance learning.

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Immersive Technology in Education: A Collaborative Learning Initiative

The online course underpinning this initiative aimed to provide educators with a dynamic and innovative forum, exploring potential for immersive technology to optimise teaching and learning.

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Actively Learning Accounting Analytics Through Task-Based Simulation

This initiative set out to introduce technology-related topics onto accounting modules using case studies as well as to develop a tool that encourages problem solving and group work.

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Geometric Visualisation

This project aimed to make the teaching and learning of undergraduate Geometry more engaging and autonomously accessible to all learners by increasing students' visualisation skills.

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Improved Learning via Modern Chemistry Experiments

Assistant Professor Marcus Baumann set out to improve delivery of laboratory teaching using modern chemistry experiments.

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A Crash Course in Data Handling with R

This initiative set out to support students in overcoming the technical barriers to using R, to better prepare them for practical work in other modules.

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Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Reduce Academic Procrastination

UCD School of Psychology set out to enhance student success by providing free Acceptance and Commitment Therapy based workshops and online workbooks, aimed to reduce student academic procrastination.

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Digitisation for Localised Lecturing Material in BDIC

Dr Takfarinas Saber digitised and localised lecture materials to enable easy access and provide better cultural context for students of Beijing Dublin International College.

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Creative Writing Support

This initiative set out to supplement existing writing services offered by the UCD Writing Centre, by offering support to students in creative writing.

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Digital Animation for Educators

UCD colleagues are learning how to create and use digital animation to enhance student understanding of abstract and complex concepts.

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Access Student Supports: Designing Online Workshops and Resources

UCD Access & Lifelong Learning has developed redesigned interactive workshops and resources which can be accessed by any UCD student at any time.

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The UCD Student Perspective on Intercultural Learning

This short video highlights the perspective of UCD students on Intercultural Learning. The students talk about what they believe they can gain from learning from people from different cultures.

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Intercultural Learning: Why? What? How?

Dr Stephanie Doscher and Dr Hilary Landorf from Florida International University come together in conversation to focus on intercultural learning in UCD.

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Using Video Feedback in Brightspace

This approach uses video feedback in Brightspace to engage students taking an online programme, who cannot simply knock on the door of their module coordinator or lecturer to ask for help.

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Collaborative Teaching of Engineering and Architecture Students

Historically, the engineer and architect were the same person before the spilt between art and science. In modern times, their relationship can be strained as they each have their own sub-culture.

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Assignment rubrics for supportive feedback and consistent grading

On the Certificate in Safety and Health programme, assignments are designed as far as possible to be of practical benefit to students in their study and work contexts.

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Paper Tower Challenge

A class of 320 first year students of UCD Mechanical and Materials Engineering have been set a challenge to build a one meter tall paper tower that will hold one kilogram.

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Negatively-marked MCQ exams: Biased or not?

An optimum assessment structure will measure student knowledge accurately and without bias.

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Chemistry Pre-Lab Quizzes

The School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology delivers general (level 1-2) laboratory courses to over 2000 students each year – resulting in over 9,000 individual student experiments being carried out.

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Development and teaching of a large online undergraduate module

Food Diet and Health is a large general elective module which aims to give a basic understanding of nutrition, food science and food safety to students.

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Academic Skills Development - A Disciplinary Approach

The Centre for Distance Learning has developed two academic skills modules which form part of the Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) programme.

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Professor Pat Gibbons - Teaching Strategies for Success

Professor Pat Gibbons, Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Strategic Management shares his Teaching Strategies for Success.

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Bringing Undergraduate Research to Life

This showcase is about how use of a Research Expo has brought research to life for UCD undergraduate business students who, as part-time students,

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Think Pair Share

Stage one students may not have much experience sitting with uncertainty. And so when first introduced to uncertainty, it brings along its good friend anxiety.

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Using Blogs and Twitter to Encourage Student Engagement

The context was a stage 1 semester 1 module in Geography with 360 students and a focus on skills development. GEOG 10020 examined the nature and character of cities within a wide historical sweep.

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Turning a traditional teaching setting into a feedback-rich environment

There is a constant need to look for new ways of motivating students, of providing them prompt feedback and of helping them to retain the material at lectures.

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Six Ways to Engage Students with Feedback

Dr Geraldine O'Neill looks at how we can rethink our definition of feedback, moving away from a retrospective approach, to an approach which develops students' own judgment and self-monitoring skills.

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Mechanics Video Tutorials for 320+ First-year Engineering Students

Mechanics for Engineers is a core module taken by every engineering student in semester one of first year.

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Creative Challenge for Science Students

The challenge for the students is to develop a learning aid to teach the fundamentals of organ specific toxicology. They are encouraged to be creative and are free to work in any media.

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Projects in Teaching Linguistics: Burden or Opportunity?

Sociolinguitics 2 is a second year core module in the BA major in Linguistics. Every year this module is taken by about 75 students in semester one.

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Consumer Law: Real-world Applications and Communications

Lawyers have a reputation for using complex and archaic language, and it is often a challenge for law students to present their research in language which is accessible to others.

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Digital Badges in Psychiatry

PSYC40150 is a 10 credit clinical module in Psychiatry which students take in stage five of their medical degree course.

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One Minute Paper

Introduction to Applied Psychology is a large general elective module taken by approximately 520 students each year.

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Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement with Technology

MIS20040 (eMarketing & Social Networking) is an undergraduate module (5 ECTS) offered to both Lochlann Quinn School of Business and other UCD horizon students.

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Bringing Bees Back to Belfield

Students have an opportunity to handle bee colonies in the apiary and experience at first hand bee activities and behaviour within the hive environment on campus.

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Student Participation for Social Learning

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself …… Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand” Chinese proverb

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How to ‘Articulate’ the research process for students

This module ‘BMGT 2003S Management Research Project’ is delivered to UCD, part-time, undergraduate students in Singapore.

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Professor Mark Keane - Teaching Strategies for Success

How can you help first-year students to understand the practical applications of computer science from the start of the programme.

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UCD SHOWCASES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Martha Ní Riada: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Professor Marie Clarke: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Dr Gavin Stewart: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Theresa Schilling: Academic Advising - the student perspective

John Melia: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Professor Emma Sokell: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Professor Jonathan McNulty: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Olivia McKevitt: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Elliot Meinert: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Dr Jonathan Ilan: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Associate Professor Jennifer Keenahan: Academic Advising - the advisor perspective

Stanislaus O'Beirne: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Amber Madden Doyle: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Dónal O’Shea: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Gráinne Johnston: Academic Advising - the student perspective

Improving the consistency of the 1st year laboratory experience in UCD Science

Communication Skills Project – Using innovation when face with limitations

Cross-disciplinary Student Creation of 3D Learning Resources in Anatomy

E-learning supports for Regulatory Affairs & Toxicology

Putting the ‘Multi’ into Multimedia Instruction in Neuroanatomy

Improving Teaching and Learning with EDI awareness

Implementation of veterinary business management education using blended learning across the veterinary medicine curriculum.

UG Research Accelerator for the Social Sciences

Augmented Reality (AR) - Enhanced Multimedia Business Case Study Teaching

Formalizing and Expanding Academic Advising Practices in the School of Civil Engineering

Academic Advising in Science

Development of Self-Assessment Tool

Academic Advising in BA and BAH programmes

Academic Advising in the Global Leadership Programme

Enhancing academic advice here at UCD: Is it simply a matter of time?

TILL21 – Toolkit for Impactful Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century

Academic Advising in Social Science

Beyond Progression: Academic Advising for Community Drugs Programme Students

Finding Your Way in Food Science

TESLAA: TEchnology supported Student Learning and development through Appreciative Advising

Staying ConnectED - Connecting Advisory Supports for Students in the School of Education

Academic Advising ADAPT Humanities Student Support

Academic Literacy Support

Evaluating, Enhancing and Expanding Academic Advising in the Sutherland School of Law

A Framework to Support Student-Academic Advising Interactions for Students on Clinical Work Placements in the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

Metacognition in Psychology of Sport and Health

Metacognition in Veterinary Clinical Neurology

Metacognition in the module DigiLife

Co-Creating a Tutor Training Module for Arts and Humanities

Active Student-Led Learning Practices in Financial Mathematics via Coding Languages and a FinTech Analytics Suite

Developing an Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice Framework (The EVIBEC Project)

Intercultural Development Programme (ICD)

Resources for Experimental Learning of the Disability Environment for the New Module (MIS20090 Design Thinking)

Using Problem-Based Learning in International Relations Tutorials

Engaging Teaching and Learning Experiences Using Lightboard Technology

Video Production Fundamentals for Practical’s and Instructional Videos

Project IV: Student Veterinary Clinical Skills Learning Online

Living Multilingually: Online Tools for Empowering Language Learners in Transition

Developing a Tutor Training and Recognition Programme

Fulfilling Potential: Supporting Community Engagement Progression Students

Tackling Stress in UCD Biology Students

Lo-Fi(Delity) Simulations of Dynamics for Hi-Fi(Delity) Understanding

Building and Developing Student Capabilities in Digital Preservation

A Concrete Approach to Learning Algebraic Coding Theory Using a Computer Algebra System

Human Learning: Promoting Students' Personal Abilities for Success at College

Looking Through the Green Lens

UCD Community Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) Community of Practice

Improving Access to Practical Elements of Environmental Engineering

Immersive Technology in Education: A Collaborative Learning Initiative

Actively Learning Accounting Analytics Through Task-Based Simulation

Geometric Visualisation

Improved Learning via Modern Chemistry Experiments

A Crash Course in Data Handling with R

Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Reduce Academic Procrastination

Digitisation for Localised Lecturing Material in BDIC

Creative Writing Support