Owen HarneyUniversity of Galway | NUI Galway · Ryan Institute
Owen Harney
PhD Learning Sciences
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Introduction
I hold a PhD in Learning Sciences, from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
My primary academic interests include: collaborative learning, collective intelligence, critical thinking, systems thinking, computer-supported collaborative learning, collaborative problem-solving, educational technology, and team facilitation.
I am interested in the application of the above in educational, and organisational contexts, and have experience working in both areas.
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Publications (53)
This paper investigates the effects of task-level versus process-level prompts on levels of perceived and objective consensus, perceived efficacy, and argumentation style in the context of a computer-supported collaborative learning session using Interactive Management (IM), a computer facilitated thought and action mapping methodology. Four groups...
Metacognition, or thinking about thinking [1], refers to the application and regulation of cognitive processes. According to Boekaerts and Simons [2], Brown [3] and Ku and Ho [4], individuals think metacognitively in two ways: first, individuals must be aware of their own cognitive processes (e.g., through self-monitoring or self-regulation); secon...
In the absence of meaningful strategies to promote critical thinking, systems thinking, and social intelligence, it has been argued that algorithm-driven web technology will not only serve to damage human creativity, technology may ultimately reduce our collective intelligence. At the same time, the history of group decision-making in education, bu...
Critical thinking (CT) is a metacognitive process, consisting of a number of sub-skills and dispositions, that, when used appropriately, increases the chances of pro-ducing a logical solution to a problem or a valid conclusion to an argument. CT has been identified as a fundamental learning objective of third-level education; however, students ofte...
Despite the increasing number of datasets available on open data platforms, there has been limited adoption and use of open data by the public. This has consequently limited the innovation and transparency impact of open data on respective economies and governments. While literature is replete with articles on barriers to open data exploitation and...
Background
Engaging stakeholders in ACP is a challenging systemic problem that requires a social innovation approach and a clear conceptual framework guiding behavioural and social change efforts. This study aimed to generate, clarify, and structure stakeholders` perspectives on barriers to ACP engagement, options for overcoming these barriers, and...
Objectives
eHealth refers to health services and health information delivered or enhanced through the internet and related technologies. The number of eHealth interventions for chronic pain self-management is increasing. However, little evidence has been found for the overall efficacy of these interventions for older adults. The aim of the current...
The design of systems to support sustainable wellbeing is contingent upon lifespan education of Homo sapiens and ongoing efforts to cultivate individual and collective intelligence. The Postdigital Applied Systems Science Education (PASSE) framework presented in this paper highlights the need for greater investment in educational infrastructures th...
Human-technology interactions are omnipresent in daily life, a reality that must be faced to enact positive change without uprooting the technological systems that have come to define us. The present study develops a collective intelligence model for human-technology interaction (HTI) design that aims to promote peace, prosperity, and happiness thr...
Background: Despite representing the highest level of total population mental health burden, young people are the least likely to seek help from mental health services. It has been suggested that service design can influence the likelihood that young people will look for help, but little is known about how young people would like a service to be de...
Background: Cancer survivorship in Ireland is increasing in both frequency and longevity. However, a significant proportion of cancer survivors do not reach the recommended physical activity levels and have overweight. This has implications for both physical and psychological health, including an increased risk of subsequent and secondary cancers....
Background: Population ageing and improvements in healthcare mean the number of people living with two or more chronic conditions, or ‘multimorbidity’, is rapidly increasing. This presents a challenge to current disease-specific care delivery models. Adherence to prescribed medications appears particularly challenging for individuals living with mu...
Personalised nutrition (PN) products and services have the potential to enhance the health and quality of life of older adults. However, PN innovation is challenging and requires specific competencies and supportive collaborations. This paper reports findings from a Collective Intelligence Scenario-Based Design session conducted with PN experts as...
BACKGROUND
Cancer survivorship in Ireland is increasing in both frequency and longevity. However, a significant proportion of cancer survivors do not reach recommended physical activity levels and have overweight. This has health implications both physical and psychological, including increased risk of subsequent and secondary cancers. Mobile healt...
Background
Cancer survivorship in Ireland is increasing in both frequency and longevity. However, a significant proportion of cancer survivors do not reach the recommended physical activity levels and have overweight. This has implications for both physical and psychological health, including an increased risk of subsequent and secondary cancers. M...
Background: Population ageing and improvements in healthcare mean the number of people living with two or more chronic conditions, or ‘multimorbidity’, is rapidly increasing. This presents a challenge to current disease-specific care delivery models. Adherence to prescribed medications appears particularly challenging for individuals living with mu...
BACKGROUND
A significant proportion of cancer survivors are overweight. However, weight management is not a standard component of oncology aftercare. A lifestyle self-management intervention using mobile health technology (mHealth) and behaviour change techniques (BCTs) was delivered to cancer survivors with a BMI of 25 or over.
OBJECTIVE
This stu...
Background:
A significant proportion of cancer survivors have overweight or obesity. Although this has negative implications for health, weight management is not a standard component of oncology aftercare. Mobile health (mHealth) technology, in combination with behavior change techniques (BCTs), has the potential to support positive lifestyle chan...
This deliverable provides an overview of 4H innovation and insights on best practices for
innovation cooperation in the healthy food sector. Current trends and existing collaborative experiences implemented by AHFES partners to support SMEs to innovate are reported and analysed. Each region provided an overview of the trends and existing experience...
Background
Cancer survivorship is increasing yet cancer treatment can cause de-conditioning and reduce physical capacity. Consequently there is a need to identify interventions which can improve health. This study investigated the impact of a personalised self-management programme on the physical and psychological health of cancer survivors with li...
BACKGROUND
Cancer survivorship in Ireland is increasing in both frequency and longevity. However, a significant proportion of cancer survivors are overweight. This has negative implications for long-term health outcomes, including increased risk of subsequent and secondary cancers. There is a need to identify interventions which can improve physica...
Background: Cancer survivorship in Ireland is increasing in both frequency and longevity. However, a significant proportion of cancer survivors are overweight. This has negative implications for long-term health outcomes, including increased risk of subsequent and secondary cancers. There is a need to identify interventions, which can improve physi...
Systems‐based approaches to societal problem‐solving entail a capacity to synthesise our knowledge and skills such that we can resolve shared problems. However, the increasing range of knowledge specialisms, scientific and engineering methods, and skill profiles at the population‐level challenges solidarity. It is also difficult to identify unifyin...
This report represent the perceptions of NUI Galway library staff in relation to barriers to well-being at work in the library, as well as options which were perceived to have the potential to address such barriers. As such, the results of this report can be used as the basis of further discussion and design work and hopefully will act as a catalys...
In a society which is calling for more productive modes of collaboration to address increasingly complex scientific and social issues, greater involvement of students in dialogue, and increased emphasis on collaborative discourse and argumentation, become essential modes of engagement and learning. This paper investigates the effects of facilitator...
Developments in open data have prompted a range of proposals and innovations in the domain of governance and public administration. Within the democratic tradition, transparency is seen as a fundamental element of democratic governance. While the use of open government data has the potential to enhance transparency and trust in government, realisin...
Although open data of Public Administrations may enable nominal transparency for citizens (opening-up of data sets), achieving effective transparency requires meaning-making in dialogue. We describe an approach to analysing such dialogues based on Dialogue Game theory, applied to interaction corpora produced using SPOD (Social Platform for Open Dat...
Background:
Though there is wide support for the application of biopsychosocial perspectives in clinical judgement of chronic pain cases, such perspectives are often overlooked due to either inadequate training or attitudes favoring a biomedical approach. Recent research has indicated that despite such explanations, both established general practi...
Critical thinking (CT) is a metacognitive process, consisting of a number of sub-skills and dispositions that, when used appropriately, increases the chances of producing a logical conclusion to an argument or solution to a problem. Though the CT literature argues that dispositions are as important to CT as is the ability to perform CT skills, the...
The increasing volumes of datasets published on open data platforms have had little impact on the public use of open data and perceived transparency of respective governments. At the same time, the innovation potentials of these datasets are far from realized due to many factors including poor quality of datasets. While past studies have attempted...
This chapter describes a systems science education strategy that aims to address three independent human limitations which impede our ability to resolve complex social problems: poor critical thinking skills, no clear methodology to facilitate group coherence, consensus design and collective action, and limited computational capacities. Building on...
Internationally, there is increasing interest in, and analysis of, human wellbeing and the economic, social, environmental, and psychological factors that contribute to it. Current thinking suggests that to measure social progress and national wellbeing we need more than GDP. Experts across a range of disciplines have increasingly highlighted a num...
This paper investigates the effects of generic versus informative feedback on levels of perceived and objective consensus and argumentation style of participants high and low in dispositional trust, in the context of a computer-supported collaborative learning session using Interactive Management (IM), a computer facilitated thought and action mapp...
Collective intelligence which results in intelligent collective action can be a powerful force for change; we have the power and potential to achieve many goals through the application of collective intelligence that we could never achieve individually. At the same time, our collective intelligence is rarely optimized and in spite of collaborative...
This paper investigates the effects of generic versus informative feedback on levels of perceived and objective consensus and argumentation style of participants high and low in dispositional trust, in the context of a computer-supported collaborative learning session using Interactive Management (IM), a computer facilitated thought and action mapp...
Collective intelligence which results in intelligent collective action can be a powerful force for change; we have the power and potential to achieve many goals through the application of collective intelligence that we could never achieve individually. At the same time, our collective intelligence is rarely optimized and in spite of collaborative...
The current study compared the effects of open versus closed group dynamics on perceived consensus, objective consensus, and perceived efficacy of collaborative learning in participants high and low in dispositional trust in the context of an Interactive Management (IM) session. Interactive management is a computer-mediated collaborative tool desig...
Questions
Questions (3)
I'm trying to collate a set of readings for a new module for first year psychology students. One of the topics we will discuss relates to the positive and negatives aspects of the internet and/or social media, across cognitive, social/interpersonal and individual domains. If anyone can recommend any such research papers, or interesting research-related blog posts, I would be grateful if you could pass them on.
Thanks in advance,
Owen
Hi all,
I'm preparing content for a module on collaborative learning. Can anyone recommend any short videos and/or online exercises which relate to, for example, communication, perspective-taking, social intelligence, group dynamics, group problem solving, or other related concepts?
Thanks in advance,
Owen
As part of my PhD research, I am investigating the efficacy of peer to peer prompts in the context of a collaborative learning session, using John Warfield's Interactive Management methodology. This will involve analysis of the dialogue and collaborative conversational dynamics among groups of students during this process. As such, it is necessary for me to familiarise myself with relevant theories of dialogue, collaboration, argumentation, peer interaction and learning. Knowledge of these and other relevant theories will be of great benefit to me as I consider my approach to analysing student interactions, dialogue, and outcomes in these collaborative learning sessions.
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could recommend any theories, measures, or conceptual frameworks which I should consider as part of process.
Thank you for taking the time to read this question. If you are interested in further detail about my request, I would be happy to provide it.
