Leo's Learning Blog

Thoughts on learning, life and experience

Thursday, March 21, 2013

MOOCs - Promise and Opportunity

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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...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

Ten Tips for Writing Academic Papers

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Completing academic writing assignments is one of the most important skills you will need to develop as a student.  This is true regardless ...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Alienation and Learning

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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 ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

From marks to Marx: Shifting your mindset for learning

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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...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Learning about Thinking from James Joyce

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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 ...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Learning Without Assessment and The Willie Clancy Summer School

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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 ...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

How to Write a Literature Review for a Dissertation

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Writing a Literature Review Writing a dissertation is one of the great learning tasks of college education. However, many students f...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Richard Hannaford An Extraordinary Teacher

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Some people are natural teachers. I don't mean 'teachers' in the everyday sense as in those who work in schools or colleges. I...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

RoboBraille An Interesting Pedagogical Tool

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  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...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Disengaged Student

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In the further and higher education sectors we often come across the phenomenon of the disengaged student. Typically a small number of stu...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Wisdom of the Fox and the Hedgehog

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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...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Dissertation Writing

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This is a busy time for many students who are working to complete their dissertations.  Having supervised and examined submissions ov...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Troublesome Nature of Learning Outcomes

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

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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...

Learning Outcomes

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Where we find learning outcomes All learning outcomes are descriptive, they are attempts to capture in a series of statements the result...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Reflection and Practice

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What is reflection? Adult educators like to use the term "reflection". In class you are likely to be invited to " reflect...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

The Common Good

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