About
Hello and welcome to my blog. I’m Catherine Cronin, academic coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in Information Technology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. My work and research interests are online and open education, digital literacies and social media in education. You can find out more here: about.me/catherinecronin.
I teach online and face-to-face in both the MScSED (MSc Software Engineering & Database Technologies) and BSc Computer Science & IT programmes at NUI Galway. Although my background is engineering, I’ve been involved in teaching, in higher education and in the community, for over 20 years. My first experience in distance education was as an Open University tutor for DT200, one of the first courses to use an online discussion forum. It has been an interesting and enjoyable journey since then!
What motivates me most in my work is learning and collaborating with fellow educators and students — creating opportunities for change through authentic, worthwhile, even passionate, learning. I’m happy to see assumptions changing and boundaries blurring: roles of students and teachers, formal and informal learning, and sites of learning.
hi there, can you kindly please remove the copyrighted image from your site.
http://ct231.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ct231-2012-13-image.jpg?w=630 (the red haired girl on the left)
yours,
the stolen face.
Hi there. Yes, I would be happy to remove the image — that is no problem! Every one of the images used in this module is an image with a Creative Commons license, either created by me, my students or other Flickr users. When I sourced this image in September 2012 it had a Creative Commons license, specifically CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. I have checked back on Flickr and see that the license for this image has been changed to full copyright (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayveeinc/4816266197/). I will remove the image immediately. My apologies to you — no offense was intended. Again, we will *only* use Creative Commons-licensed images, as these are images which the creators have shared openly online. Thank you for letting me know — I will make the change now.