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Evaluation of the Role of an Intensive Induction Project in Enhancing the First Year Experience (2009)

Behan, Avril; O'Connor, David; Prendergast, William P; Skehan, Conor

Evaluation of the Role of an Intensive Induction Project in Enhancing the First Year Experience (2009)

Behan, Avril; O'Connor, David; Prendergast, William P; Skehan, Conor

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In line with increasing global efforts to improve the first year experience of 3rd level education Dublin Institute of Technology’s School of Spatial Planning undertook, in both 2007 and 2008, a 2-day Deep-End Induction project. With the introduction of modularisation in Ireland’s Institutes of Technology opportunities arose for the identification of overlaps and synergies between programmes. Within the authors’ School three honours Bachelor of Science degrees in Geomatics, Spatial Planning and Environmental Management are taught annually. The Geomatics graduates are mainly engaged in the production of maps and models on national, regional and local scale as well as the management of spatial data in Geographic Information Systems and through appropriate Land Management processes. The Environmental Managers and Spatial Planners are prime users of these datasets. All three student groups benefit from the development of an understanding of each of the other disci...

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Harnessing Developments in Technology and Merging them with new Approaches to Teaching: a Practical Example of the Effective use of Wikis and Social Bookmarking Sites in 3rd Level Professional Education (2009)

Behan, Avril; Boylan, Frances

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While innovations such as Problem-Based Learning and elearning have informed pedagogical practice on the Geomatics honours Bachelor of Science degree programme at the Department of Spatial Information Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland, few attempts have been made to date to harness technological developments and merge them with new approaches to teaching. However, the recent conceptual change in authoring and usage of the World Wide Web from relatively static to fully interactive (Read-Write Web) provided an opportunity to embrace a change in technology as a means of modifying teaching practice to create a more student-centred environment. This paper describes a project currently running at the DIT, with 2nd year students on the aforementioned four-year honours degree programme in Geomatics, where the students are required to use Web 2.0 sites for social bookmarking (www.delicious.com) and wiki creation (www.pbwiki.com) to enable collabora...

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Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland (2008)

Behan, Avril; Moss, Rachel

Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland (2008)

Behan, Avril; Moss, Rachel

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The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which detailed empirical analysis of the metrology and proportional systems used in the design of Irish ecclesiastical architecture can be analysed to provide historical information not otherwise available. Focussing on a relatively limited sample of window tracery designs as a case study, it will first set out to establish what, if any, systems were in use, and then what light these might shed on the background, training and work practices of the masons, and, by association, the patrons responsible for employing them.

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The Application of Web 2.0 Technologies as an Experimental Method of Teaching Remote Sensing at DIT, Ireland (2008)

Behan, Avril

The Application of Web 2.0 Technologies as an Experimental Method of Teaching Remote Sensing at DIT, Ireland (2008)

Behan, Avril

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This paper describes the implementation of an experimental method of delivery for a module of remote sensing material to second year students on the BSc (Hons) in Geomatics at the Dublin Institute of Technology. The project began as a reaction to poor levels of student engagement and unsatisfactory grades, as well as the requirement to focus more on real-world type problems due to the implementation of a work-placement semester for third year students. Both pedagogical considerations (movement towards formative feedback, interactivity and group-based work) and the effect of technological drivers, such as the popularity of the internet in general and Web 2.0 tools in particular, led to the design of a two-part project where students engaged in group-work and individual research to explore remote sensing and close range photogrammetry concepts. The students found the new delivery and assessment to be generally successful with 78% recommending that the new format should be ret...

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