Staff
| Linda Boyd | Programme Administrator |
| Frances Boylan | eLearning Development Officer |
| Martina Crehan | Learning Development Officer |
| Roisin Donnelly | Learning Development Officer |
| Vincent Farrell | Learning Development Officer |
| Jen Harvey | Head of Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre |
| Claudia Igbrude | eLearning Development Officer |
| Ken Lacey | eLearning Support Officer |
| Helen Lamb | Technical Officer |
| Dolores McManus | eLearning Support Officer |
| Daphne Mulvey | Administrative Support Officer |
| Muireann O'Keeffe | Learning Development Officer |
| Kevin O'Rourke | Head of eLearning Support & Development |
| Natasha Roche | Programme Administrator |
| Pauline Rooney | eLearning Development Officer |
Linda Boyd
Programme Administrator
Tel: 01 402 7875
email: linda.boyd@dit.ie
Frances Boylan
eLearning Development Officer
Tel: 01 402 7863
email: frances.boylan@dit.ie
Frances graduated from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (NUI) with a BEd (Hons) and taught for a number of years at primary level before attending Trinity College Dublin to undertake an MEd, specialising in Educational Management, followed by an MSc in IT in Education. She pursued her Doctorate with the University of Sheffield where she researched the feasibility of borrowing the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis technique for the field of higher education and research, which culminated in the development of the Failure Mode Effects Reflective Analysis technique for the field.
Frances Boylan's Publications/Presentations
Martina Crehan
Learning Development Officer/Co-ordinator of Diploma in Learning & Teaching
Tel: +353 01 402 7884
email: martina.crehan@dit.ie
Martina is a Learning Development Officer on the postgraduate programmes. She is currently the co-ordinator of the Post Graduate Diploma in Third Level Learning and Teaching.
Martina graduated with an honours degree in Psychology, and a Higher Diploma in Education from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She was subsequently awarded a MA in Psychology from University College, Dublin, and is currently studying for a Doctorate in Education at Trinity College, Dublin. She has worked as a Flexible Learning Officer at Dublin City University, and previous to that role, as a lecturer in Psychology. Her research interests include student retention, factors influencing student progression, and training and support for academic staff acting as Personal Tutors.
She delivers workshops on such topics as the First Year Experience, lesson planning, microteaching, reflective practice, and formative assessment.
Martina's selected publications/presentations
Roisin Donnelly
Learning Development Officer/Programme Chair of MSc in Applied eLearning
Tel: +353 01 402 7886
email: roisin.donnelly@dit.ie
Roisin is Programme Chair of the MSc Applied eLearning, and year 2 co-ordinator, and module tutor on a number of core and elective modules; her teaching and examining responsibilities are also on the Postgraduate Diploma in Third Level Learning and Teaching and the MA in Higher Education. She has supervised MSc and MA students to completion and is currently co-supervising a PhD student in Computing. She is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She previously worked as a lecturer and research officer in the Northern Ireland Knowledge Engineering Laboratory in the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Ulster from 1992-1997, and subsequently moved to Australia where she was a research fellow and lecturer in the School of Computing in the University of New South Wales (Sydney), until joining the LTTC in 1999. In her current role, she delivers consultancies and workshops on a variety of topics in learning and teaching development. She has a wide range of publications to date reflecting her specialist teaching and research interests, including eLearning pedagogy & design, supporting virtual communities, blended learning models/strategies, active learning, curriculum design and ePortfolios/teaching portfolios.
View Roisin Donnelly's Qualifications, Research and Publications
Vincent Farrell
Learning Development Officer/Co-ordinator of the MA in Higher Education
Tel: 01 402 7881
email: vincent.farrell@dit.ie
Vincent Farrell is the Co-ordinator of the MA in Higher Education. He joined DIT from IT Tralee before that he was teaching in the UK. He is involved in teaching on all the programmes run by the Centre. He is a Social Scientist by “trade”. He is a member of the Learning Teaching and Assessment Committee at DIT. His interests are active and problem based learning, assessment, work based learning, learning styles and e learning. He has a particular interest in electronic inter activity through using smart boards and electronic voting .
Jen Harvey
Head of Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre
Tel: 01 402 7883
email: jen.harvey@dit.ie
Jen originally graduated from Aberdeen University with a B.Sc. in Zoology and later completed an MPhil in Immunology while working in Edinburgh University. She then moved to Napier University where she obtained a Dip.Ed.Tech. from Abertay University and, in 1994, a PhD in science education in collaboration with Glasgow University. Jen became the DIT Head of Lifelong Learning in 2003, previously she was the Head of Distance Education. Before moving to Dublin she worked as an Implementation Consultant for the LTDI a SHEFC project based in ICBL, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Current research interests relate to the use of technology to support learning, student assessment strategies, practitioner based evaluations and Communities of Practice.
Claudia Igbrude
eLearning Development Officer
Tel: 01 402 7880
email: claudia.igbrude@dit.ie
Claudia graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Industrial Mathematics, subsequently followed by a Higher Diploma in Computing in eLearning and an MSc in Learning Technologies.
She has worked in both private sector and education in technical roles ranging from desktop and user support and training to network support, as well as eLearning development and support.
As well as delivering various workshops, she also supervises Postgraduate research students for their thesis and teaches on the Secondlife life module “Is one life enough” offered by the DIT school of Art Design and Printing. She has also taught and contributed to post graduate modules such as Instructional Design, and Trends in elearning.
Her research interests bridge across pedagogy and technology. They include mobile technologies, mLearning, social media, serious games, learning in the workplace, ICT systems and the implementation processes for integration of technologies for learning and teaching.
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Ken Lacey eLearning Support Officer
Tel: 01 402 7867
email: ken.lacey@dit.ie
Ken graduated with a BSc in Computer Applications (DCU) and followed this with a JEB Diploma. He also holds IAA and CAA Aircraft Maintenance Licenses and, after several years in the aviation industry, he changed career to work in ICT as a desktop applications course developer, trainer and web developer. He has also worked on course delivery with FAS. Most recently he has worked with DIT Central IT Services.
Helen Lamb
Technical Officer
Tel: 01 402 7876
email: helen.lamb@dit.ie
Helen has worked with the Learning, Teaching & Technology Centre for over 10 years and previously has worked in various Secondary Schools, HE and Adult Education Institutes in London. She was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning Resources from South Thames College. Helen also plays a role being part of the Campus Health & Safety team and being a Safety Representative.
Dolores McManus eLearning Support Officer
Tel: 01 402 7866
email: dolores.mcmanus@dit.ie
Dolores graduated with a BA (Hons) in History & History of Art from UCD. She has previously worked in office management and IT project administration. She has recently completed an MA in Design History and Material Culture with NCAD.
Daphne Mulvey
Administrative Support Officer
Tel: 01 402 7885
email: daphne.mulvey@dit.ie
Daphne has worked with the DIT since 2001. She is currently working with the Learning Teaching and Technology Centre on specified projects. Prior to this she worked with the Office of Graduate Studies and Research as Finance Co-ordinator and with DIT Library Service. She completed a Certificate in Customer Service Excellence in 2009.
Muireann O’Keeffe
Learning Development Officer
Tel: 01 402 7872
email: muireann.okeeffe@dit.ie
Muireann O’Keeffe graduated from NUI Maynooth with a BA (Maths, Nua-ghaeilge) followed by H.Dip.I.T. In 2005 she completed the MSc. (I.T. in Education) at Trinity College Dublin. She has worked in various positions in the higher education sector including user support, web design and applications training at Trinity College Dublin. She was employed as an eLearning Developer at the University of Stirling, Scotland and then as the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR) Coordinator at Dublin City University where she facilitated the development of elearning resources and supported the growth of communities of practice among teaching academics across the Irish Higher Education sector. She now works as a Learning Development Officer at Dublin Institute of Technology supporting learning technology projects, teaching on academic programmes offered by the LTTC, and coordinating the first year of the MSc in Applied eLearning.
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Kevin O’Rourke
Head of eLearning Support and Development
Tel: 01 402 7860
email: kevin.orourke@dit.ie
Kevin was educated at St. Augustine’s College, Dungarvan, University College Dublin and at University College London where he received a PhD in intellectual history. His professional career has spanned advertising and publishing in Dublin, New York and London, and he has worked extensively on electronic publishing projects with Routledge and with the university presses at Oxford and Cambridge. Before joining DIT in May 2002, he worked in London as a senior producer for Fathom.com, the online learning company sponsored by Columbia University.
Natasha Roche
Programme Administrator
Tel: 01 402 7890
email: natasha.roche@dit.ie
Pauline Rooney
eLearning Development Officer
Tel: 01 402 7891
email: pauline.rooney@dit.ie
Pauline obtained her MSc (Ed) in Computer Based Learning from Queens University Belfast and completed her Doctorate of Education (EdD) with the University of Sheffield, where she investigated what happens when a multidisciplinary in-house approach is taken to the design, development and implementation of serious games in HE. Prior to joining DIT in 2002, she worked as an instructional designer in the private elearning sector, collaborating with the Royal College of Surgeons and Harvard University. Current research interests include serious games and virtual worlds, qualitative research methodologies, interdisciplinary practice in higher education and student attitudes towards pedagogical innovation.
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