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Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers

Roland John Tormey, Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

2019

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

Roland John Tormey, Patrick Jermann, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs

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 ...

Springer2022

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

Roland John Tormey

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 ( ...

2014

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

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2012

Developing teacher agency through dialogue

Roland John Tormey

Based on the experiences of a group of mainstream primary teachers of English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) learners in Ireland, a dialogic inquiry has the potential to influence perceptions regarding teacher agency. The participants examined their pract ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

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

Valentina Rossi, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima, Yousef Jalali

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 ...

2024

Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

2010

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

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis, Zhenyu Cai

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, ...

2025

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

Mirjam Mekhaiel, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs, Lucille Delisle

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 ...

University of Twente2020

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

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

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 ...

Informa UK Limited2025

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

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

2023

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

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis, Zhenyu Cai

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 ...

2024

Interdisciplinary contributions to engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

Routledge2024

Reason and emotion in engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

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 ...

2024

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

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk, Vladislav Krivoshchekov

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 ...

American Society for Engineering Education2025

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

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

2008

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

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

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 ...

American Society for Engineering Education2023

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

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

Elsevier2012

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

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Helena Kovacs

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 ...

2022

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

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis, Zhenyu Cai

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 ...

ACM2025