Institute of Technology Carlow

Damien Raftery

BSc, MSc, MA

 

Lecturer in the Department of Management Studies

eLearning Development Officer (Teaching and Learning Centre)

 

Research Experience

 

Co-supervision of research masters students (submitted projects include access to third level for disabled learners and IT usage within Irish manufacturing SMEs).  Advice on research methods and data analysis to postgraduate and undergraduate researchers.  

 

Member of the Irish Learning Technology Association committee and of the EdTech conference organising committee (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008).

 

Sample publications

Raftery D (2006) In Pursuit of Teaching Excellence: Encouraging Teaching Excellence in Higher Education AISHE Conference 2006, Maynooth 31st August-1st September (http://www.aishe.org/events/2005-2006/conf2006/proceedings/)

 

Raftery D (2008) Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues from the chalkface EdTech 2008: Ninth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users Conference Dundalk Institute of Technology, 22-23rd May (http://www.ilta.net/edtech2008/index_edtech2008.html)

 

Raftery D (2008) Useful resources for teaching a first course in statistics from a statistical literacy perspective 3rd Irish Mathematics Service Teaching Conference Waterford Institute of Technology 26-27th May

 

Projects/Publications

 

Raftery D (2006) In Pursuit of Teaching Excellence: Encouraging Teaching Excellence in Higher Education AISHE Conference 2006, Maynooth 31st August-1st September (http://www.aishe.org/events/2005-2006/conf2006/proceedings/)

 

Raftery D (2008) Developing educational screencasts: practical tips and pedagogical issues from the chalkface EdTech 2008: Ninth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users Conference Dundalk Institute of Technology, 22-23rd May (http://www.ilta.net/edtech2008/index_edtech2008.html) 

 

Raftery D (2008) Useful resources for teaching a first course in statistics from a statistical literacy perspective 3rd Irish Mathematics Service Teaching Conference Waterford Institute of Technology 26-27th May

 

Raftery D & O Broin D (2009) Using Google Docs to Support Project-based Learning EdTech 2009: Tenth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users Conference National College of Ireland, 21-22nd May (http://ilta.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=62&Itemid=192)

 

Raftery D (2009) We all need to be numerati: fostering quantitative literacy in higher education LIN 2nd Annual Conference, poster, Athlone 15th Oct (http://www.lin-ireland.com/posters/DamienRaftery.pdf)

 

Raftery D (2010) Developing educational screencasts – a practitioner’s perspective. In Donnelly, R., Harvey, J., & ORourke, K. (Eds.) Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. [In progress]

 

Member of the Teaching and Learning Centres SIF2 Repositioning Assessment for Learning Project, with a project on assessing for learning and quantitative literacy on a first year business quantitative techniques module.

 

Research Interests

Research interests include quantitative literacy and mathematics/statistics education, teaching and assessment in higher education, blended learning.

 

 

Current Research Projects

 

Currently undertaking a doctorate in higher education and lifelong learning.