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Ssshhh!!! Exams in Progress!

Posted on 11th January 201128th August 2018 By Leo Casey 1 Comment on Ssshhh!!! Exams in Progress!

This is a quiet but busy time in National College of Ireland semester one exams are now in progress.  We are encouraged to keep as quiet as possible as each room on the campus is now used to its fullest extent to facilitate the process. There is always tension associated with exams.  Students of all…

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What are New Year’s resolutions and why they seldom work

Posted on 1st January 201128th August 2018 By Leo Casey 1 Comment on What are New Year’s resolutions and why they seldom work

New Year’s Celebration fireworks at Carton House, Maynooth Happy New Year! It’s the start of 2011 and last night we celebrated as we said goodbye to 2010 and welcomed the turn over to a New Year. At New Year and perhaps birthdays or other recurring significant dates we often conduct a self-appraisal and make decisions…

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Learning without Teachers

Posted on 29th October 201027th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Learning without Teachers

I met Sugata Mitra at On-Line Educa in Berlin two years ago and was very impressed by his research work and his thinking on how children learn. This most recent presentation at the TED conference opens up a timely debate on the role of instruction in education.It is easy to be sceptical about the findings…

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Wikipedia as a source in academic writing

Posted on 5th September 200927th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Wikipedia as a source in academic writing

Have you ever heard of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?Pestalozzi was a Swiss educationalist – he had interesting ideas for progressive education – at the start of the nineteenth century he was advocating an enlightened approach to schooling.   Perhaps in a future blog I will further discuss Pestalozzi but the topic I have set out above is…

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Course Entry Requirements – Recognising Learning from Experience

Posted on 12th June 200927th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Course Entry Requirements – Recognising Learning from Experience

If you are thinking about taking a course, for example any of the NCI courses in the prospectus, you may see in the entry requirements that it is necessary for students to have a specific level of degree (e.g. honours degree) or a certificate or diploma to gain entry. These conditions are necessary so that…

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Plagiarism Reframed

Posted on 6th May 200926th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Plagiarism Reframed

Mention plagiarism to any third level academic and you are likely to be greeted with groans and laments.This is one topic that gets into people’s hearts – it leads to animated discussions and hard views. It is unwise to be regarded as soft on the issue. It is annoying, very annoying to be reading something…

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Learning Assessment Through Life

Posted on 27th April 200927th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Learning Assessment Through Life

I attended an excellent workshop today on the topic of assessment and learning. The workshop was delivered by Professor Sally Brown of Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. The attendees consisted of a mix of our own faculty at National College of Ireland and teachers from some of the other colleges around the country as…

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Adult Learning

Posted on 22nd October 200727th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on Adult Learning

Adults learn what they want to learn and what they perceive as useful to them;Internalisation involves the construction of new meaning based on passed experience and new stimuli;Learning can be understood as always involving cognitive, psychodynamic and societal/social aspects;Communities of practice embody all three of these aspects and as such are powerful drivers for adult…

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