Contact
Rannóg
Role
Director, IT & eLearning
Biography
Alison Egan, PhD is a Director of IT & eLearning since 2008. Her current research interests are focused on digital literacy; artificial intelligence, technological self-efficacy; national and international digital education policies and technology enhanced learning. She completed her PhD in 2018 at Trinity College Dublin, by conducting longitudinal research into technological self-efficacy of pre-service teachers during their undergraduate programmes.
She is Vice-President of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) and Chair of the Consultative Council of Society for IT in Teacher Education (SITE), USA (2023 - 2025).
Qualifications
PhD (DUB) Education, 2018
MSc (DUB) Technology & Education, 2009
Dip. (DIT) Training & Development, 2000
Dip. (Wales) Legal Studies, 1993
B.A (NUI) Mode One English, 1992
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9277-6724
Publications and other outputs
Editorial Board Membership
The Doctoral Journey in Education, Book Series, Brill Sense Publishing - International Advisory Board Member https://brill.com/display/serial/DOCJ?contents=about
Book Chapters
Hall T.,Ryan M., McMahon J., McGann M., Egan A., Connolly C. (2021) T-REX (Teachers’ Research Exchange): Infrastructuring Teacher Researcher Collaboration Through an Open Educational Ecosystem. In Marcus-Quinn A., Hourigan T. (eds), Handbook for Online Learning Contexts: Digital, Mobile and Open. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67349-9_21
Egan, A. (2020). Doing a PhD Part-Time, An Irish Perspective. In B.Bradford (Ed.), The Doctoral Journey International Educationalist Perspectives (pp. 70 - 91). Brill Sense Publishers.
Egan, A., Fitzgibbon, A., Johnston, K., & Oldham, E. (2019). Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Self-Efficacy : An Irish Perspective. In D. Gibson & M. Ochoa (Eds.), Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2019 (pp. 149 - 158): Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. http://www.learntechlib.org/p/210591/
Published Articles
Redmond, P., Christensen, R., Trevisan, Ottavia, & Egan, A. (2024). International Collaborative Project Focusing on Technology Integration Experiences of Preservice Teachers Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/224094
Egan, A., Georgeson, J., Revyakina, E., Fernandez Morante, C., Latorre Ruiz, E., & Strasser, T. (2023). EKT: a project exploring the use and impact of a smart technological system to support school placement in five European countries, a final report Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/222030
Redmond, P., Dunn, S., Kachikwu, S., Langran, E., & Egan, A. (2023). What is the future of professional development in a changing world of emerging technologies and innovative pedagogies? Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/221902
Egan, A., Georgeson, J., Revyakina, E., Strasser, T., Cebreiro Lopez, B., Fernandez Morante, C. & Latorre Ruiz, E. (2022). EKT, a pilot project exploring the use and impact of a smart technological system to support school placement in five European countries. In E. Langran (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2167-2172). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/221048/
Egan, A., Revyakina, E., Georgeson, J., Cebreiro López, B., Fernández Morante, C., Latorre Ruiz, E. & Strasser, T. (2021). EKT, a trans-national platform to support school placement. In E. Langran & L. Archambault (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 656-661). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/219196/
Connolly, C., Hall, T., Ryan, M., McMahon, J., McGann, M., & Egan, A. (2021). A fusion of research-informed teaching and teaching-informed research : Designing a scalable online ecosystem for new partnerships in educational research. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 82 - 95. https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/6131
Egan, A. & Gurhy, A. (2020). A sequential explanatory mixed methods study of pre-service teachers’ experiences of and attitudes to coding in Ireland. In Gary H. Marks & Denise Schmidt-Crawford (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 524-529). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Thesis
Egan, A. (2018). Use of Technology by Pre-Service Teachers: A Mixed Methods Study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Dublin, Trinity College - School of Education. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/82942
Research Reports
Egan, A., & Georgeson, J. (2023). Evaluation of Users' Satisfaction & Assessment of the Products Derived from the Project. Output 17. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8026463
Egan, A., & Georgeson, J. (2023). Evaluation on impact of EKT proposal in student´s professional competencies (prospective teachers). Output 18. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8026515
Egan, A. (2020). A review of technology in teaching and learning. Education International. Available from https://issuu.com/educationinternational/docs/2020_ei_research_technologyteaching_eng_final
Conference Contributions
Egan, A. & Georgeson, J. (2022, September 8). Developing support for teaching placements : A Case Study. [Paper presentation]. British Educational Research Association (BERA). University of Liverpool UK, September 2022.
Revyakina, E., Egan, A., Georgeson, J., Morante, C., Strasser, T., Cebreiro, B. (2021, September 17). The Use of a Trans-National Online Environment designed for School Placement. [Paper presentation]. European Educational Research Association (ECER), Online Conference.
Revyakina, E., Egan, A., Georgeson, J., Morante, C., Strasser, T., Cebreiro, B. (2021, September 17). The Use of a Trans-National Online Environment designed for School Placement. [Paper presentation]. ECER Online Conference.
Egan, A. & Gurhy, A. (2020, September 5). A sequential explanatory mixed methods study of pre-service teachers’ experiences of and attitudes to coding in Ireland. [Paper presentation]. Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI), Online Conference.
Podcasts
Enovation AI Podcast - Episode 1 (2023)- Dr Alison Egan https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/enovation-ai-podcast-episode-1-dr-alison-egan/id1524440548?i=1000606061018
Research/Professional Interests
Technological self-efficacy
Digital literacy
TPACK
Digital criticality
Digital competencies
Instructional design and
Technology enhanced learning.
Grants/Funded Projects
Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance - EKT Project 2019 - 2023. Amount of Award 100,000/eur Website https://ektproject.eu/
European Commission, European Education and Culture Executive Agency, Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances – Dissemination sheets – Projects 2014-2020 / implementation 2014-2024, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2797/486572
Education International, Brussels 2019 to 2020 - Research Launch Website and/or https://www.ei-ie.org/
Education International, Brussels - Commissioned Research Report - A Review of Technology in Teacher Education, October 2020 – Amount of Award 20,000/eur
National Forum for Teaching & Learning, Funded Project - Teachers' Research Exchange (T-Rex), Amount of Award 10,000/eur - 2018 - 2020. Website https://www.t-rex.ie/
National Forum for Teaching & Learning, Funded Project - GTA Online Learning, 2017, Amount of Award 5,000/eur. Website https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/project/alignment-and-development-of-an-online-programme-for-graduate-teaching-assistants/
National Forum for Teaching & Learning, Funded Project - Digital Skills in Action, 2016, Amount of Award 5,000/eur. Website https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/project/digital-skills-in-action/
Awards
ICT Excellence Award, 2006 - Best use of Open Source Software (Moodle) - Equal Status Online Project.
Membership
International
Chair, Consultative Council, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) 2024 to 2025 https://site.aace.org/about/site-executive-committee/.
SIG Chair - International Perspectives, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) 2019 to 2023.
ALT Member - Association for Learning Technology, UK https://openbadgefactory.com/v1/assertion/b253b5a463f271824b53bfe5ac0d53db7e3fe50f
National
CRITE Research Group (Centre for Research in IT in Education), Trinity College Dublin - Invited Research Associate 2009 to 2020.
Vice President & Treasurer - Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), Ireland 2012 to date.
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, National Forum Associate 2023.