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    Address by Áine Hyland, Professor of Education, University College Cork, at the HEEU Conference on Rural Issues in Higher Education
    (Higher Education Equality Unit, 2001-11-22) Hyland, Áine; O'Connell, Angela
    Thank you for inviting me to contribute to this conference on rural issues in Higher Education. This is an important and neglected topic and I would like to compliment the HEEU for putting it on the agenda. Data on access to, participation in and benefit from higher education by students from rural backgrounds in Ireland is scarce and there is little published information from an Irish perspective on the matter. As with so many other neglected issues, the HEEU is breaking new ground in addressing this issue and I look forward to hearing from other conference speakers on this topic.
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    The Irish and Mexican education systems – some comparative perspectives
    (2000) Hyland, Áine
    I am pleased and honoured to be invited to speak at this historic conference, where delegates from Ireland and Mexico meet for the first time under the terms of the Education Agreement signed by both countries in 1998. It is timely that this conference should be held as we face into the new millenium – a millenium which holds enormous potential for the human race.
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    Biophotonics computer app: fostering multidisciplinary distance self-paced learning with a user-friendly interface
    (Optical Society of America, 2021-09) Saito Nogueira, Marcelo; Gunther, Jacqueline Elizabeth; Jayet, Baptiste; Souza Matias, Jean; Tyndall, Caitriona; Andersson-Engels, Stefan; Science Foundation Ireland
    The biophotonics app enables multidisciplinary and self-paced learning in both in-person or virtual environments. The app can work offline and has a user-friendly interface well accepted by students. App instructions are publicly available.
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    Online learning combining virtual lectures, at-home experiments and computer simulations: a multidisciplinary teaching and learning approach
    (Optica Publishing Group, 2021) Saito Nogueira, Marcelo; Komolibus, Katarzyna; Gunther, Jacqueline Elizabeth; Sekar, Sanathana Konugolu Venkata; Jayet, Baptiste; Pacheco Tobo, Andrea Liliana; Li, Celina L.; Maryam, Siddra; Tyndall, Caitriona; Kennedy, Declan; Andersson-Engels, Stefan; Science Foundation Ireland
    We developed a fully-remote biophotonics workshop integrating webinars, computer simulations and at-home experiments to meet the needs of undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds and learning styles. Similar strategies/resources could be used in multidisciplinary programs.
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    Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia experience: keynote address, OMEP Ireland Conference, April 2009
    (2011-04) Cunneen, Maura; Ridgway, Anna; Murphy, Rosaleen; Hall, Kathy; Cunningham, Denice; Horgan, Mary; Murphy, Rosaleen
    The keynote address at the 2009 OMEP Ireland research conference was given by a team from the School of Education, University College Cork, who had just completed work on a co-authored book entitled Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience for the Continuum Library of Educational Thought. This paper presents some of the highlights from that presentation; the book explores these issues in much greater detail and also discusses the thorny issue of curriculum in Reggio Emilia. The Reggio Emilia early years educators strongly resist the idea of describing what they do as a curriculum, preferring instead the word ‘experience’. If we define ‘curriculum’ in the narrow sense of a set of prescribed learning goals and experiences, (rather than all the people, things, experiences and emotions that the child encounters in the pre-school) then this is undoubtedly the wrong word to describe what they do. Nevertheless, their practice is not by any means atheoretical, and the Reggio Emilia educators continually reflect on and refine their practice. The historical background of “Reggio” as well as the various strands of curriculum theory that underpin thinking on how best to foster children’s early learning and development are both necessary if we are to see it in context and to make an informed judgement on why Newsweek in 1991 described them as “the best pre-schools in the world”.