Colin Manning Munster Technological University

I was advised today by the head of department that I made a number of students uncomfortable last week when I used my mobile phone to record...

I had a discussion today over coffee with some people about the Internet and the role it will play in Higher Education. It got me thinking a...

The higher education sector is struggling to provide quality services despite fewer resources and governments around the world are insisting...

Assessment 1 did not go as well as I had expected it would. The average mark was 41% The results are available here . Use the last 4 d...

The results of Assessment 1 are now available online . You can find your own result using the last 4 digits of your ID number. The ave...

I hosted a discussion on Teaching Naked & the Inverted Classroom this morning. Everyone who attended was very keen on the idea, bu...

I was discussing a student with a colleague a few weeks ago and she made a comment that got me thinking. She said “Oh, I’m not a bit worrie...

During the week I recorded the audio for a short video I am making on "Teaching Naked". I had tried to record it at home at the we...

I was all set today to start uploading my classes to iTunes you. Two years ago I setup of a podcast server. I had imagined that the latest v...

I have disabled anonymous comments for this blog. I had believed that allowing students to post anonymously would allow for a free-er exchan...

Is Facebook a no-go for teachers?

A HEA report on dropout levels found that only 73% of students who start computing courses progress to second year. Of all the courses in t...

This summer a student from the department of Computing was advised that, following a decision of the Examinations Infringements Board, he co...

This module was not a big success. Many students struggled right from the beginning and never really got on top of things. I think they many...

I was pleased with how SOFT6007 went this year. I think I and the other lecturers teaching on the module to other students did a better job ...

It's the end of week 5 and so it feels like the half-way point of the semester, even though it's not. So it seems like a good time t...

I spent most of the day correcting. I'm pretty pissed off actually, more than other times. The modules I was teaching this semester were...

Bill Clinton: "No, thank you, Lisa. For teaching kids everywhere a valuable lesson: If things don't go your way, just keep complai...

www.TurnItIn.com is my new favourite toy. I used to spend hours before correcting assignments identifying those that were ripped off from w...