Assistant Professor Marcus Baumann set out to improve delivery of laboratory teaching using modern chemistry experiments.
Learn MoreThis initiative set out to support students in overcoming the technical barriers to using R, to better prepare them for practical work in other modules.
Learn MoreUCD School of Psychology set out to enhance student success by providing free Acceptance and Commitment Therapy based workshops and online workbooks, aimed to reduce student academic procrastination.
Learn MoreDr Takfarinas Saber digitised and localised lecture materials to enable easy access and provide better cultural context for students of Beijing Dublin International College.
Learn MoreThis initiative set out to supplement existing writing services offered by the UCD Writing Centre, by offering support to students in creative writing.
Learn MoreUCD colleagues are learning how to create and use digital animation to enhance student understanding of abstract and complex concepts.
Learn MoreUCD Access & Lifelong Learning has developed redesigned interactive workshops and resources which can be accessed by any UCD student at any time.
Learn MoreThis approach uses video feedback in Brightspace to engage students taking an online programme, who cannot simply knock on the door of their module coordinator or lecturer to ask for help.
Learn MoreHistorically, the engineer and architect were the same person before the spilt between art and science. In modern times, their relationship can be strained as they each have their own sub-culture.
Learn MoreOn the Certificate in Safety and Health programme, assignments are designed as far as possible to be of practical benefit to students in their study and work contexts.
Learn MoreA class of 320 first year students of UCD Mechanical and Materials Engineering have been set a challengeto build a one meter tall paper tower that will hold one kilogram.
Learn MoreAn optimum assessment structure will measure student knowledge accurately and without bias.
Learn MoreThe School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology delivers general (level 1-2) laboratory courses to over 2000 students each year – resulting in over 9,000 individual student experiments being carried out.
Learn MoreFood Diet and Health is a large general elective module which aims to give a basic understanding of nutrition, food science and food safety to students.
Learn MoreThe Centre for Distance Learning has developed two academic skills modules which form part of the Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) programme.
Learn MoreProfessor Pat Gibbons, Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Strategic Management shares his Teaching Strategies for Success.
Learn MoreThis showcase is about how use of a Research Expo has brought research to life for UCD undergraduate business students who, as part-time students,
Learn MoreStage one students may not have much experience sitting with uncertainty. And so when first introduced to uncertainty, it brings along its good friend anxiety.
Learn MoreThe context was a stage 1 semester 1 module in Geography with 360 students and a focus on skills development. GEOG 10020 examined the nature and character of cities within a wide historical sweep.
Learn MoreThere is a constant need to look for new ways of motivating students, of providing them prompt feedback and of helping them to retain the material at lectures.
Learn MoreDr Geraldine O'Neill looks at how we can rethink our definition of feedback, moving away from a retrospective approach, to an approach which develops students' own judgment and self-monitoring skills.
Learn MoreMechanics for Engineers is a core module taken by every engineering student in semester one of first year.
Learn MoreThe challenge for the students is to develop a learning aid to teach the fundamentals of organ specific toxicology. They are encouraged to be creative and are free to work in any media.
Learn MoreSociolinguitics 2 is a second year core module in the BA major in Linguistics. Every year this module is taken by about 75 students in semester one.
Learn MoreLawyers have a reputation for using complex and archaic language, and it is often a challenge for law students to present their research in language which is accessible to others.
Learn MorePSYC40150 is a 10 credit clinical module in Psychiatry which students take in stage five of their medical degree course.
Learn MoreIntroduction to Applied Psychology is a large general elective module taken by approximately 520 students each year.
Learn MoreMIS20040 (eMarketing & Social Networking) is an undergraduate module (5 ECTS) offered to both Lochlann Quinn School of Business and other UCD horizon students.
Learn MoreStudents have an opportunity to handle bee colonies in the apiary and experience at first hand bee activities and behaviour within the hive environment on campus.
Learn More“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself …… Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand” Chinese proverb
Learn MoreThis module ‘BMGT 2003S Management Research Project’ is delivered to UCD, part-time, undergraduate students in Singapore.
Learn MoreHow can you help first-year students to understand the practical applications of computer science from the start of the programme.
Learn MoreThis module is delivered in semester one and serves to provide students with an introduction to the structure and function of the four kinds of tissue that make up the human body,
Learn MoreStatistics is boring. This is the view that most students have of the subject when they enter UCD, and many of them keep it for their entire career. But statistics isn’t boring,
Learn MoreProfessor Gavin Barrett, Jean Monnet Professor of European Constitutional and Economic Law shares a number of strategies including enabling students to think independently.
Learn MoreThis module, BMGT3002D Undergraduate Dissertation, is a core module on the Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) part-time programme at UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business.
Learn MoreAn Introduction to Horticulture, Forestry & Land Use and Environment is a core module taken by all UCD/ South China Agricultural University (SCAU) students.
Learn MoreMany teachers of Irish like myself are persecuted by the very bilingual dictionaries they cherish.
Learn MoreProfessor Anne Drummond, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, shares her teaching strategies for success with the UCD Community.
Learn MoreIn some scenarios, the time constraints of modularization have become an impediment to the successful achievement of learning outcomes.
Learn MoreProfessor Danielle Clarke, Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature shares strategies she has been using for many years to engage and teach students.
Learn MoreThe context was a stage 1 semester 1 module in Geography with 360 students and a focus on skills development.
Learn MoreIn semester one of the Bachelor of Business Studies, stage two students are required to complete a 10 ECTS project-based module, HRM2001D Management Practice 1.
Learn MoreFeargal Murphy, a lecturer in the UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies talks about a module he developed for the Humanities to teach Study Skills for University Learning.
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