Jen Harvey

Dr Jen Harvey is currently the Head of the Learning, Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC) of the Dublin Institute of Technology. She has been in this role from 2003, prior to this she was the DIT Head of Distance Education. Before moving to Dublin she worked as an Implementation Consultant for the LTDI a SHEFC funded project based in ICBL, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Jen is involved in a number of local and national collaborative Strategic Innovation Projects relating to Work-based Learning, Learning Innovation and Education in Employment. Current research interests relate to the use of technology to support learning, student assessment strategies, practitioner based evaluations and Communities of Practice.

Publications

Does Accredited Professional Development for Academics Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education?
Does Accredited Professional Development for Academics Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education?
Claire McAvinia, Roisin Donnelly, Orla Hanratty, Jen Harvey. © 2016. 20 pages.
The authors are part of a team delivering accredited programmes in teaching at tertiary level, and have collaborated to examine the impact of their work and that of the team over...
Does Accredited Professional Development for Academics Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education?
Does Accredited Professional Development for Academics Improve Teaching and Learning in Higher Education?
Claire McAvinia, Roisin Donnelly, Orla Hanratty, Jen Harvey. © 2015. 20 pages.
The authors are part of a team delivering accredited programmes in teaching at tertiary level, and have collaborated to examine the impact of their work and that of the team over...
Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice
Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice
Roisin Donnelly, Jen Harvey, Kevin O'Rourke. © 2010. 448 pages.
Introducing change to higher education has always been a difficult and slow process. But over the last two decades, information and communication technologies have served to...
Online Communities of Practice as a Possible Model to Support the Development of a Portal for Science Teachers
Online Communities of Practice as a Possible Model to Support the Development of a Portal for Science Teachers
Anne Jelfs, Jen Harvey, Ann Jones. © 2007. 20 pages.
This chapter looks at how the ideas discussed in the literature on online communities and communities of practice have been applied to the development of two European ‘blended’...