Motivation and engagement: strategies for student success
Motivation and engagement: strategies for student success
This webinar is an offshoot of our new white paper: "Motivation and Engagement: Strategies to Success" that looks at how universities in Ireland have been using educational technology to maximise and incentivise course engagement and how ed tech fits in with prevailing theories of motivation.
In this webinar we speak to two of the instructors who were interviewed for the case studies underpinning the report, Alejandra Ramos and Donal Palcic. Both Alejandra and Donal have made technology an integrated part of their course structure and have seen huge benefits as a result. Sign up for a 'lunch and learn' style webinar of 45 minutes to hear from them about the different ways they are using technology and the impact that it is having on engagement and results.
Watch our webinar recording
Read our case studies
Institute: Limerick University
Course: Year 1 Introduction to Microeconomics and Year 2 Intermediate Microeconomics
Instructor: Donal Palcic
Digital Product In Use: Connect with SmartBook for Economics 12e by Begg, Vernasca, Fischer & Dornbusch
Number of Students: 600+
Institute: Trinity College Dublin
Course: Introduction to Statistics (Undergraduate)
Instructor: Alejandra Ramos
Digital Product In Use: Connect with SmartBook for Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers 3e, by Jaggia and Kelly
Number of Students: 350
Meet the speakers
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Dr. Dónal Palcic Donal is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick. His primary area of research is in public sector economics with a particular focus on infrastructure policy, public enterprises, privatisation and public-private partnerships. He has over fifteen years lecturing experience and currently teaches economics on a range of programmes in UL. He also has considerable international teaching experience and has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, Ecole de Management Strasbourg, Audencia Business School in Nantes, and Grenoble Ecole de Management. |
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Dr. Alejandra Ramos Alejandra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on development. Her research interests are Intra-Household Decision Making, Intimate Partner Violence, and Education. Alejandra obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in July 2017. She holds a master in Economic Analysis from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, an MSc in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a master in Economics from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. |