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CURRICULUM VITAE - DR KEVIN CHARLES O’ROURKE

EDUCATION

1994 – 1999:    PhD, Intellectual History, University College London, UK.

My PhD research explored the evolution of the ideas of philosopher John Stuart Mill in relation to freedom of expression in the nineteenth century. I was supervised by Professor Fred Rosen, head of the Bentham Project at UCL. The thesis was subsequently published in the Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series  (2001) as John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression: The genesis of a Theory.

1988 – 1989:    MA in Philosophy (first class honours), University  College Dublin. Recipient of Professor Magennis Memorial Prize for Academic Achievement

1983 – 1986     BA (hons), Philosophy, with Greek & Roman Civilization.

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2004-Present: Head of eLearning Support & Development, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 2.

2002–2004: Project Manager, Learning Technology Team, Dublin Institute of     Technology, Dublin 2.

2000-2002: Senior Producer, fathom.com (Illuminations Television, London, UK and     Columbia University, NY, USA).

1998–2000: Assistant Editor, Survival, International Institute for Strategic Studies,     London, UK.

1995-1998: Senior Copy Editor, Routledge Publishers, London, UK.

1995: Proofreader, Parliamentary Brief, London, UK.

1994: Publishing Specialist, Matthew Bender Legal Publishers, New York, USA.

1990-1994: Advertising Copywriter, various advertising agencies/freelance, Dublin.

1986-1988: Advertising Representative, Cortland Standard, New York, USA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

K.C. O'Rourke, Roisin Donnelly and Jen Harvey (2010) Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice, co-editor (IGI Global).

K.C. O'Rourke, Anne Murphy and Pauline Rooney (2009) "The Learn@Work Socrates-Minerva Research Project 2005–2007: what did it do and what happened with it since?", Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning (December 2009).

K.C. O’Rourke, N. Fitzpatrick, N. Hayes (2009) “Beyond constriction and control: constructivism in online theory and practice”, in C.L. Payne (ed.) Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks (IGI Global).

K.C. O'Rourke, P. Rooney, C. Igbrude, G. Burke and B. MacNamee (2009) "Cross-disciplinary approaches for developing serious games in Higher Education: frameworks for food safety and environmental health education" (co-author), in Proceedings of the First International IEEE Conference in Serious Games and Virtual Worlds (VS-Games '09), 2009.

K.C. O’Rourke and R. Donnelly (2007) “What now? Evaluating eLearning CPD practice in Irish third-level education”, Journal of Further and Higher Education 31 (1) Feb. 2007, pp 31-40.

K.C. O'Rourke, N. Hayes, H. McQuillan (2006) “eParticipation: Time to Take Stock?”, Demo-net White Paper, Venice, October 2006.

K.C. O'Rourke (2001) John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression: the genesis of a theory, London and New York: Routledge.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

“VLEs, Web 2.0 and all that: has technology made

any real difference to the learning and teaching process?”, Plenary Speaker, HEAnet National Networking Conference, Kilkenny, 12 November 2009.

“Where now for VLEs?”, Invited Speaker, CONUL Advisory Committee on Information Literacy, Annual Information Literacy Seminar, Dublin, 28 May 2009.

“The King is Dead. Long Live the King”, EdTech Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, Dublin, 21 May 2009.

‘ICT as a new literacy’, Q&A session panelist, the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) Adult Literacy Organisers’ Forum, Dublin, 24 April 2009.

“Content and discontent - towards a new paradigm of eLearning support”, Irish Universities Information Services Colloquium, Galway, 5 March 2009.

“Thomas Moore, John Stuart Mill and the birth-control controversy”, Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext Conference, Galway, 28 November 2008.

“Engineering Language: Wittgenstein’s philosophy recollected”, invited speaker, DIT Colloquium: The architect, engineer, and scientist, as philosophically-informed graduate professionals, Dublin, 23 May 2008.

“The digital partnership divide: can eLearning pedagogical designers understand worker-learners?”, with Anne Murphy and Pauline Rooney, 37th Annual SCUTREA Conference, Queen's University, Belfast, 4 July 2007.

"Designing eLearning for the workplace: challenges for worker-learners, e-designers and academic staff" with Anne Murphy, Pauline Rooney, Niall Dixon, Kenneth Lacey, EdTech Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, Dublin, May 2007.

“Evaluating eLearning CPD practice in Irish third-level education”, invited speaker, MoodleMoot, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, February 2007.

“Fathoming eLearning: Global and Local implementations”, invited speaker, Dublin City University MSc. in eLearning Programme, 10 November 2006. “Whose Life is it anyway? Mills Autobiography and its legacy”, The John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference, 1806-2006, 5 April 2006.