Publications by Roland John Tormey

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Due to the unprecedented situation caused by a global pandemic, the traditional way of teaching that is reliant on face-to-face interaction between teachers and students has been dismantled. This article looks into university teachers’ experiences of teach ...

The ‘deep/surface approach to learning’ framework is widely used in higher education. Its perceived strength is that it is regarded as having two functions: both being (1) a useful metaphor for development of teaching and learning in higher education and ( ...

The growing literature on the gendering of citizenship and citizenship education highlights that western notions of ‘citizenship’ have often been framed in a way that implicitly excludes women. At the same time, insofar as feminist writers have addressed c ...

Sustainability and ethics are topics of significant, current importance in higher education. In engineering education, they take on even greater importance as engineers play a key role in addressing global issues. While multiple institutions have implement ...

Emotion is now been granted a more prominent position in areas such as the study of moral or pro-social behaviour (Hoffman, 2001). Its importance is also increasingly being recognised in development education (Tormey, 2005). This research looks at the role ...

There are a variety of CSCL scripts that offer different levels of flexibility, ranging from high-structured guidance towards low-rigidity support. This study is grounded in the view that scripts should be designed with a certain degree of structuredness, ...

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

Ethics cases are widely used in engineering ethics education, offering ethical dilemma scenarios to analyse and discuss. Recent research highlights the importance of both cognitive and emotional dimensions involved in analysing ethical dilemmas. However, t ...

When centred on the professional exchange of skills and knowledge, overseas volunteering can be a beneficial form of professional development. In contrast to voluntourism where volunteers buy an overseas experience, professional-based overseas volunteering ...

A range of learning analytics (LA) tools have been designed and integrated into university classes to facilitate teaching and learning. However, exercise sessions, the educational setting that complements lectures with practical activities, are commonly ov ...

This section of the handbook aims to provide readers with a conceptual toolbox that can enhance the reading of ideas and concepts that emerge in other sections and later chapters. This reflects that many of the ideas and directions of travel in engineering ...

This chapter discusses the relationship between reason and emotion in engineering ethics education (EEE), focusing on psychological and sociological perspectives. It identifies some factors that have led to emotions not being adequately considered alongsid ...

Background: Engineering education often upholds masculinity norms such as individual competitiveness and emotional stoicism. These norms affect team dynamics and students' satisfaction with learning experiences in team projects. Purpose: This study explore ...

Purpose – Higher education has a key role and responsibility in creating change and addressing issues of fundamental human concern such as inequality and social justice, globalisation and development, environmental protection and sustainability. The purpos ...

Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...

The framing of teaching standards within restrictive managerial or collaborative democratic ideologies impacts significantly on initial teacher education. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore teacher educators’ (n = 13) perspectives on beginning ...

The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

Jupyter is a web-based, interactive computing environment that supports many commonly-used programming languages. It has been widely adopted in the CS education community and is now rapidly expanding to other STEM disciplines due to the growing integration ...

Student-teacher relationships play an important role in both teacher and student experiences in higher education and have been found to be linked to learning, classroom management, and to student absenteeism. Although historically conceptualised in terms o ...

With the educational expansion, ever more students start a tertiary degree. At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an engineering school, the number of bachelor students increased from 3'713 in 2010 to 6'330 in 2022. However, in Switzerland, a co ...

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Teaching under lockdown: the change in the social practice of teaching

The centre cannot hold: untangling two different trajectories of the 'approaches to learning'framework

The gendering of global citizenship: findings from a large-scale quantitative study on global citizenship education experiences

Exploring Engineering Students' Perception of Sustainability and Ethics in Their Curriculum Across Disciplines

Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education

"Jupyter-Notebook-as-Script": Investigating the Nature and Impact of Implicit Collaboration Scripts in Computational Notebooks

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Exploring the emotional dimension in engineering ethics case studies: the latent emotions and associated features

Immersive professional activities as learning: Irish teachers learning from overseas volunteering in India

Learning Analytics Beyond Traditional Classrooms: Addressing the Tensions of Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive Goals in Exercise Sessions

Interdisciplinary contributions to engineering ethics education

Reason and emotion in engineering ethics education

"I felt there was no team to be included in": Navigating social emotions and masculinities in engineering team projects

Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland

Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases

Beginning teacher standards for physical education: Promoting a democratic ideal?

A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter Notebooks

Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach

Study Success And Failure Of STEM Students And The Connection To Their Learning Habits