Projects

International projects

The LTTC has been and continues to be involved in a number of international projects. These have included:

Children's Rights and Journalism: A Rights-Based Perspective

http://elearning-events.dit.ie/UNICEF/html/module_intro.htm

http://elearning-events.dit.ie/UNICEF-TK/index.htm

DIT staff from the Faculty of Applied Arts (School of Media and Dept. of Social Sciences), in collaboaration with Unicef, have developed an online resource for journalists looking at the issue of children's rights and journalism. The online delivery is facilitated by the Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre, incorporating a website and a password-protected Moodle site.

The objective of the module is to provide the trainee journalist with the concepts and the information that will help him/her to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children's rights.

Check out the website for more information http://ceecis.org/syllabus/

Currently the module is available in both Turkish and English. Lecturers at several Turkish universities have been working with DIT staff to ensure that best practices are followed when introducing the module to journalism students across Turkey.

Learn at Work http://www.learnatwork.info/

A Socrates Minerva project (2005-2008) with Glasgow Caledonian University, E-learning Lab at Aalborg University (Denmark), ATiT (Belgium), Institute for Future Studies (Austria). The project focussed on the use of ICT to enhance the induction and continuing support for learners in the workplace.
The project aimed to explore the synthesis between the theories, conceptual frameworks and practices of distance learning, e-learning, work based learning and work placed learning in order to provide the community with practical examples guidance on the design and implementation of e-supported learning at work.

 

Quest for Learning http://www.questforlearning.org/

The QFL project supported the Minerva action by developing a range of on-line resources related to learning and employability, for people with disabilities. Project partners were AHEAD, CRPG, eCollege, Handisup, National Learning Network, Plymouth University, The Aisling Foundation, University College Cork and the University of Tartu.
Products developed by the project included: an e-learning module on Study skills for students with disabilities, an e-learning module on Disability awareness and inclusive education for teaching staff, a virtual support network for graduates with disabilities, guidelines for teaching staff on ODL practices and the support needs of students with disabilities in ODL environments. The project was launched officially in 2005.http://www.dit.ie/news/archive2005/quest-for-learning/

STAR Physics http://starphysics.dit.ie/

The Minerva project, with partners London Metropolitan and Sofia Universities, aimed to support trainee science teachers and their mentors/tutors, to identify themes that would be enhanced by multimedia as a way to establish national and transnational links among trainee science teachers and to develop appropriate multimedia materials to use with teachers and pupils.
The project produced an online subject portal of reusable peer reviewed learning objects in Physics and Chemistry. These were selected to provide secondary school teachers with relevant, appropriate and timely resources to support their teaching.