Episodes
Wednesday May 25, 2016
Programme 257, John Walshe on Education Journalism and Politics pt 2 (25-5-16)
Wednesday May 25, 2016
Wednesday May 25, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with John Walshe who after spending 4 decades as an education journalist was appointed special adviser to education and skills minister Ruairí Quinn. He wrote about this experience in An Education: How an outsider became an insider - and learned what really goes on in Irish government.
Wednesday May 18, 2016
Programme 256, John Walshe on Education Journalism and Politics (18-5-16)
Wednesday May 18, 2016
Wednesday May 18, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to John Walshe who spent many years as education editor for the Irish Independent and was also special adviser to Ruairí Quinn when he was minister for education and skills. He authored a book about his experience as special adviser titled An Education: How an outsider became an insider - and learned what really goes on in Irish government.
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Programme 255, Innovation in University Learning and Technology (11-5-16)
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Professor Leigh Graves Wolf who is the assistant director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan State University. She was in Ireland to deliver a keynote address at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) in February last.
Among the sites mentioned on the programme are make.msu.edu and edutech.msu.edu.
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Programme 254, Conor Galvin from CESI 2016 (4-5-16)
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Conor Galvin from the School of Education in University College Dublin. I met him at the annual Computers in Education Society of Ireland, CESI conference 2016, when he spoke about his presentation and about the role of technology in education more generally.