Rob Lowney's research while affiliated with Dublin City University and other places

Publications (17)

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After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses t...
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The need for digitally competent graduates is well established, and articulated in the New Skills Agenda for Europe (European Commission, 2016) and the European Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 (European Commission, 2021). The Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) project seeks to enhance graduate digital attributes by providing pro...
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Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) is a three-year project funded by the Higher Education Authority involving seven universities of the Irish Universities Association (IUA). Commencing in 2019 the aim was to enhance the digital educational experiences of Irish university students through enabling the mainstreamed and integrated use of d...
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Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) is a collaborative project involving seven universities of the Irish Universities Association (IUA). The aim is to enhance the digital educational experiences of Irish university students through enabling mainstreamed and integrated use of digital technologies across the teaching and learning process....
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Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) is a three-year project funded by the Higher Education Authority involving seven universities of the Irish Universities Association (IUA). Commencing in 2019, prior to the COVID pandemic, the aim was to enhance the digital educational experiences of Irish university students through enabling the mainst...
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The 2021 EUROCALL conference engaged just under 250 speakers from 40 different countries. Cnam Paris and Sorbonne Université joined forces to host and organise the event despite the challenging context due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally programmed to be held on site in the heart of Paris, France, the EUROCALL organising team and executive com...
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The Enhancing Digital Capacity in Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities (EDTL) Project was initiated in 2019, with its objective to mainstream effective digital teaching and learning across Ireland's seven universities. Project activities in each university were initially framed by individual strategic visions and contexts, but unified across...
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Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) is a three-year project funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority involving the seven universities of the Irish Universities Association. Commencing in May 2019, prior to the COVID pandemic, the aim is to enhance the digital educational experiences of Irish university students through enabling the...
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In early 2020, the transition of large classes from the face-to-face to the online context occurred overnight and at scale at a time when the crisis was being faced at all levels of society, nationally and internationally. This paper is based on research which examined the impact of this sudden transition on large classes in Dublin City University...
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In March 2020, Irish universities closed their doors and teaching, learning and assessment moved online, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper arises from a Dublin City University (DCU) research study with a three-fold purpose: • Examine the sudden transition of large classes (100+ students) from face-to-face teaching and learning to remote onl...
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The Enhancing Digital Capacity in Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities (EDTL) Project was initiated in 2019, with its objective to mainstream effective digital teaching and learning across Ireland’s seven universities. In January 2020, the project launched an invitation to join an open community, with the intention of sharing expertise and e...
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The Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning (EDTL) project, led by the Irish Universities Association (IUA), aims to enhance the digital learning experience of Irish university students by addressing the digital skills of all who teach in Irish universities. The project team, comprising a project manager based in the IUA and project leads based in...
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Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the EUROCALL society succeeded in holding the 28th EUROCALL conference, EUROCALL2020, on 20-21 August as an online, two-day gathering. The transition process required to make this happen was demanding and insightful for everyone involved, and, in many ways, a logical consequence of the core content and purpose of EURO...
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Enhancing Digital Capacity in Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities is a three year project that aims to mainstream digital in teaching and learning across the seven Irish universities by addressing the professional development of all who teach. The sectoral project is underpinned by national and European policy objectives and social and eco...
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The IUA-led project, Enhancing Digital Capacity in Teaching and Learning in Irish Universities, is a 3-year project involving all seven Irish universities. The aim is to enhance the digital attributes and educational experiences of Irish university students through enabling the mainstreamed and integrated use of digital technologies across the teac...

Citations

... Previous research on fairness in higher education assessment has investigated students' views on fairness across different areas. These areas include assessment methods (Burger et al., 2017), grading (Nesbit & Burton, 2006), and test fairness (Bazvand & Rasooli, 2022;Buckley et al., 2021;Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia et al., 2019). Among these domains, the perceived fairness of assessment methods has been the focus of more studies, indicating the main emphasis of fairness research in higher education assessment (Rasooli et al., 2019). ...
... However, the present study did not focus on video making but on the role of videos in oral productions. Ghilay (2018) claims that the VBL (Video-Based Learning) model aims to provide a solution to problems in all higher education institutions around the world and that video is a better tool than memory for self-reflection and they engage classes with technologies (Davis & Oh, 2021; Loftus & Lowney, 2020). ...