Alison Egan
Contact
- Telephone
- 01 8057787
- Email
- alison.egan@mie.ie
- Location
- St Mary's,
Rannog/Section
Director, IT & ELearning
Qualifications
B.A (NUI), Dip. LS (Wales), Dip. T&D (DIT), M.Sc (Dub)
Research / Professional Interests
M. Sc Year One -"Teaching Legal Irish, A Blended Solution to a Statutory Problem".
M. Sc Year Two - Dissertation Topic - "The Use of User Generated Digital Audio Learning Objects (podcasts) and their effect on student engagement with VLEs".
PhD commenced September 2011 on Attitudes towards Technology in the Classroom of Pre-Service Teachers
Publications
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Girvan, C., & Oldham, E. (2012).
Self-Reported Competency and Technology Acceptance: Investigating the Relationship for a Cohort of Irish Pre-Service Teachers. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012, Austin, Texas, USA. Pages 3210 -3217.http://www.editlib.org/p/40084
FitzGibbon, A., Egan, A., Oldham, E., & Girvan, C. (2012).
What Should We Investigate Next? A Scoping Exercise to Identify Variables of Relevance in Teachers’ Views on Technology-Related Issues. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012, Austin, Texas, USA. Pages 3218 -3223. http://www.editlib.org/p/40085
Egan, A. (2011).
Digital Learning Objects & Pre-Service Teachers in Proceedings of EdTech 2011,National Conference,June Waterford.
Egan, A. (2011)
Digital Learning Objects & Pre-Service Teachers in Proceedings of EDEN 2011, European Distance Education Network, June, Dublin.
Egan, A. (2011)
Digital Learning Objects & Pre-Service Teachers: A Step too Far? Paper accepted to E-Learn 2011, Rome
Egan, A. & FitzGibbon, A. (2010).
Preservice teachers' vision of ICT in the classroom. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (pp. 3226-3231). Chesapeake, VA: AACE
Egan, A.(2010).
Pre-Service Student Teachers "Vision" of ICT in their Future Classrooms. Proceedings of Computers in Education Society of Ireland National Conference, 2010 accessible at http://www.cesi.ie/node/244
Awards
ICT Excellence Award, 2006 - Best use of Open Source Software (Moodle) -Equal Status Online Project.
Personal Homepage
http://alisonmie.blogspot.com/