ICEP 2011 Programme

9:00 – 9:30
NCI Atrium, outside Kelly Theatre

Registration

9:30 – 9:45
Kelly Theatre

Welcome

Dr Philip Matthews

President of NCI

9:45 – 10:30
Kelly Theatre

Opening Address

Effecting Change to improve the Learning Experience

Professor Sally Brown

10:30 – 10:50
Kelly Theatre

Plenary Session

The Learner, the Educator and Evolving Teaching Methods: The Voice of Irish Educators at ICEP 2010

ICEP 2010 Co-Authored Paper

10:50 – 11:15
Kelly Theatre

Tea/Coffee

Networking and Poster Session
Chair: Angela O’Keefe

Learner-to-educator Feedback; Acquiescence Bias, Reliability and Learner Opinion
Brett Becker and Orla Butler

Technology and the Changing Educational Environment: A Case Study in Griffith College Dublin
Angela O’Keefe and Fiona O’Riordan

Peer Survey as a Group Assessment Component Authentic Assessment
Grainne Madden

Exploring the Potential to Release Student Motivation – The Bridge21 learning model
John Lawlor, Claire Conneely and Brendan Tangney

Repositioning the ICEP Conference
ICEP 2010 Delegates

11:15 – 13:00

Parallel Session 1: Research Papers

Session A 

Support Initiatives to Engage Learners
Room 102
Chair: Dr Stephan Weibelzahl

Session B

Approaches to Engage Learners
Room 103
Chair: Dr Brett A. Becker

Technology Enhanced Learning: Students’ views
Eileen O’Donnell and Mary Sharp

“Hide and Tweet”: A game to teach schoolchildren about spatial technologies
Justyna Ciepluch, Ricky Jacob, Blazej Ciepluch and Peter Mooney

A New Environment for Computer Aided Design: Combining Constructionist ideas and Augmented Reality technology to create a concrete learning environment for digital content
Tricia Harris

nExaminer: A Semi-automated Computer Programming Assignment Assessment Framework for Moodle
Zheng Cheng, Rosemary Monahan and Aidan Mooney

Schizophrenia in Academia: The academic-professional divide – a theoretical perspective
Kay O’Sullivan

Finding Pedagogy for Blended Learning
Leo Casey and Sara Kyofuna

Moving towards student-centred learning: A case study
Anne Mangan

Training students in post-modern pedagogies in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) reconciling the old with the new
Gerardine Neylon

 

13:00 – 14:15
Kelly Theatre

Lunch with Networking Session

14:15 – 15:30

Parallel Session 2: Practice Papers

Session C

Support Initiatives to Engage Learners
Room 102
Chair: Dr Leo Casey

Session D

Approaches to Engage Learners
Room 103
Chair: Kay O’Sullivan

The Use of Mind Maps as an Assessment Tool
Robbie O’Connor

Developing Student Induction Sessions for Problem Based Learning
Stephan Weibelzahl and Orla Lahart

Embedding Universal Design in the Curriculum
Margaret Kinsella

The Irish Innocence Project and the Student Learning Experience
David Langwallner

Motivating Student Learning
Mark Dowling

Student Job Enlargement Derived from Workplace Theory. Recommendations for Educators
Jeff Taylor and Conor Horan

15:30 – 16:30
Kelly Theatre

Armchair Session

Capturing the Voice of Irish Educators
Led by Prof Phil Race

16:30 – 16:45
Kelly Theatre

Conference Closing

Diarmuid Hegarty

President Griffith College, Dublin