Project Overview: A set of instructional videos is being created to demonstrate tasks related to the Hospitality, Culinary and Tourism sectors in order to help students in developing core skills. These videos involve demonstrating restaurant tasks and bar tasks using the facilities in CIT.

• NDLR Institutional Coordinator: Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, Department of Educational Development

CIT has developed a number of learning objects which have been uploaded to the NDLR repository. These objects have been used in CIT both as part of online courses and face-to-face learning materials and staff have been polled with regard to the development of further related resources.

CIT continues to create resources for the training of trainers, including tutorials on the use of new media and social networking tools to enhance and compliment work in the academic environment. Examples include productivity applications such as note-taking tools, organisational tools, email lists/ campaigns; survey software, wikis, poll software, social networking sites, etc.; basic multimedia on the web such as screen capture, podcasting, basic editing. It is hoped that these short tutorials will help academic staff in integrating technology in their teaching and encourage the use of modern teaching methods which will also benefit students.

The resources are created in CIT by the DEIS Department. Current resources being created for the 2010 LIPs projects include video tutorials to teach core skills in the Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary sector; interactive Maths resources for reinforcement; and demonstrations on the use of Web 2.0 tools in Education.

For further information, please contact:

• Gearóid OSuilleabháin
• Shane Cronin
• Roisin Garvey
  

Project Overview: This project called for the development of an interactive web-based application to provide the learner with reinforcement of specific key concepts in Mathematics and practice based on these concepts. The application simulates the traditional board presentation of the lecturer, where the information is presented in a gradual, measured manner; and the pace of the presentation is controlled by the user. Practice is provided via linked auto-corrected tests.

The LInCS project entitled “Exercise to Music and Anatomy and Physiology Assessment Tools” was coordinated by DEIS. The Key Concept of this project is to address the need for Rich Media Learning Resources in the area of Sports and Health. For more information, please visit the project's page here.

Project Overview: This project will result in a resource to explain the potential benefits of web 2.0 tools to lecturers. The resource will include a presentation on the background of web 2.0 tools, list the benefits and types of tools and demonstrate their use.

The Strength and Conditioning RLO was created to facilitate learning in physical exercise and conditioning through media-rich reusable learning objects for mixed and face-to-face delivery. The resource can be found here.