Leo's Learning Blog

In case you don't know by now, MOOC stands for M assive O pen O nline C ourse and they are causing an upheaval in higher education world...

Completing academic writing assignments is one of the most important skills you will need to develop as a student.  This is true regardless ...

I want to talk about alienation as I believe it to be a topic of concern to most of us and it is an important influence on how we live our ...

We all like to achieve and when it comes to doing a course or gaining a qualification we want to achieve the best result possible. Natural...

In my view one of the best ways to study learning and thinking is to look to literature and in this arena one figure stands out for the ...

If you're ever lucky enough to find yourself in Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland, around the early part of July each year you will ...

Writing a Literature Review Writing a dissertation is one of the great learning tasks of college education. However, many students f...

Some people are natural teachers. I don't mean 'teachers' in the everyday sense as in those who work in schools or colleges. I...

  S ome of my colleagues and I are participating in a European project as part of a transnational consortium looking at the uses of RoboB...

In the further and higher education sectors we often come across the phenomenon of the disengaged student. Typically a small number of stu...

There is much debate about the kind skills we require for success in the 21st Century. It can be argued that what we learn in school and col...

This is a busy time for many students who are working to complete their dissertations.  Having supervised and examined submissions ov...

In higher education learning outcomes are part of the bedrock that informs assessment, qualifications and course approval processes.   ...

Plato's Meno One of the first accounts of the troublesome nature of learning outcomes is given in Plato's Meno .  Plato used a s...

Where we find learning outcomes All learning outcomes are descriptive, they are attempts to capture in a series of statements the result...

What is reflection? Adult educators like to use the term "reflection". In class you are likely to be invited to " reflect...

The Concept of the Common Good I have argued elsewhere that the current debate on Ireland's crisis needs to move away from economist...