Online Learningfor the Future:

a conversationin Galway

with Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin

Volvo Ocean Race Galway 2012: Volvo Global Village, NUI Galway pavilion, 3rd & 4th July 2012

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“More change will happen in education in the next ten years

than in the past one hundred.” Stephen Heppell (2011)

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“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

– Joichi Ito (2011)

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NUI Galway offers

BLENDEDand

ONLINEprogrammes

NUI Galway offers

BLENDEDand

ONLINEprogrammes

70+

International BusinessMedical Device Science

Social CareItalian

Biomedical ScienceHealth Sciences

Software Engineering

Nursing

Early Childhood

Innovation Management Irish Studies

Gaeilge Fheidhmeach

International BusinessMedical Device Science

Social CareItalian

Biomedical ScienceHealth Sciences

Software Engineering

Nursing

Early Childhood

Innovation Management Irish Studies

Gaeilge Fheidhmeach

http://www.nuigalway.ie

http://www.nuigalway.ie/coursesadult-and-continuing-education-courses/

http://www.youtube.com/user/thinkingaboutnuig

Content

Learner support

Assessment

Accreditation

Content

Learner support

Assessment

Accreditation

Online materials & textbooks

Online discussion

Online assignments, projects, examinations

MSc, PG Diploma, CPD

IT Online programmesSoftware Engineering & Database Technologies

www.nuigalway.ie/itonline

Fully online IT programmes...

http://youtu.be/qTiZVvKrB4s

Chemistry students creating models & videos...

http://www.scoop.it/ct231-student-showcase

IT students sharing digital media projects...

What about

our

future students?

http://youtu.be/SJMIJXyakio

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“Educationis not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”- W.B. Yeats

What do

YOUthink?

Thank Youlet’s continue the conversation...

Catherine.Cronin@nuigalway.ie

@catherinecronin

www.nuigalway.ie

REFERENCES:

Slide 17: Constructing a lipid bilayerDr. Andrew FlausDepartment of Biochemistry, NUI Galwayandrew.flaus@nuigalway.ie

Slide 18 CT231 Student ShowcaseCatherine CroninDepartment of Information Technology, NUI Galwaycatherine.cronin@nuigalway.ie

Slide 20 New Ways of Learning: #edchatie videoedchatie.pbworks.comFred Boss: @fboss