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

Roland John Tormey

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 ...

2021

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

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

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 ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2023

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and g ...

2023

Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review

Roland John Tormey

There is today a broad consensus that emotions influence all forms of teaching and learning, and scholarship on Emotions in Engineering Education (EEE) is an emerging and rapidly growing field. However, this nascent research is currently very dispersed and ...

2021

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey

Since 2011 the growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been so enormous that, according to the Economist magazine, “the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations” (2013). One proposed benefit of MOOCs is that they allow consi ...

2015

Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities

Roland John Tormey

The changing ethnic make-up of Irish society has impacted upon schools. Existing, largely qualitative studies have highlighted mixed attitudes towards ethnic minorities. Literature has also focused on the role of the state in articulating a discourse that ...

2012

Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects?

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Cyril Picard, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered to be valuab ...

2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Mapping engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey

Writing a handbook implies describing the fundamental information needed by those teaching or researching in a field. This is a challenging task when the field is still maturing. This handbook grew from the idea that we could ‘collaboratively write’ engine ...

Routledge2024

How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?

Roland John Tormey

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning te ...

Elsevier2012

Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

2018

Teaching ethical decision making to students as 21st-century professionals

Roland John Tormey

Ethical decision making by professionals is an important element in working towards a sustainable future. This chapter explores the different learning goals which apply to professional ethics education, highlighting a historical shift from a focus on purel ...

Taylor and Francis2025

Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools

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

Although it is frequently claimed that learning analytics can improve self-evaluation and self-regulated learning by students, most learning analytics tools appear to have been developed as a response to existing data rather than with a clear pedagogical m ...

2020

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Antonin Danalet, Ingrid Le Duc, Alexis Berne, Luca Bragazza, Delphine Preissmann, Samuel Bendahan, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Jérome Feige, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...

Tempus Publications2016

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...

2023

Emotions in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey

Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research explorin ...

Routledge2023

The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case

Roland John Tormey

Much recent sociological work on education makes reference to gender, sexual, ethnic, local and political ‘project’ identities, yet there remains a need to bring the nation, and the state, back in; to also question the way in which ‘national’ identities ar ...

2006

Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mirko Raca, Roland John Tormey

Human body-language is one of the richest and most obscure sources of information in inter-personal communication which we aim to re-introduce into the classroom’s ecosystem. In this paper we present our observations of student-to-student influence and mea ...

ACM2014

Creating a Smart Learning Space: Learning with and learning from student-generated data about learning

Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2017

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education?

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2018