Éamon Ó Cofaigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Éamon Ó Cofaigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Éamon Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Cofaigh |
| SIGNATURE | COFAIGH É Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university
Lectures have been part of the University tradition for centuries and remain an integral part of Higher Education in Ireland. However, in recent years the place of the lecture has been questioned, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducted amongst Arts students in the University of Galway sought to establish whether students still valued the face-to-face lecture as part of their University education, and how they…
Blending learning – from niche to norm
Blended Learning has existed for many years, and while it has gradually been gaining a measure of impetus in third-level programmes, it has traditionally been used as a cost-effective way to deliver part-time courses to adult learners. Delivered at times that are usually considered outside of core teaching hours (evening classes and weekend workshops), blended-learning programmes have often been delivered by part-time staff or research students r…
IRF Off
Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht has always been ‘fourth among equals’ in the pecking order of Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the administration of a game that was no longer amateur prompted the Irish Rugby Football Union to assess the viability of its constituent parts and to implement radical cost-cutting strategies, resulting in advanced plans to disband Connacht as a profess…
Motor Sport in France
The birth of the automobile in the late nineteenth century was greeted with a mixture of awe, scepticism and sometimes even disdain from sections of the European public. In this article, the steps taken in France to pioneer and promote this new invention are examined. Unreliable and noisy, the early automobile owes a debt of gratitude to the French aristocracy who organised and codified motor racing in an effort to test these new inventions while…
Motor Sport in France
The birth of the automobile in the late nineteenth century was greeted with a mixture of awe, scepticism and sometimes even disdain from sections of the European public. In this article, the steps taken in France to pioneer and promote this new invention are examined. Unreliable and noisy, the early automobile owes a debt of gratitude to the French aristocracy who organised and codified motor racing in an effort to test these new inventions while…
Motor Sport in France
The birth of the automobile in the late nineteenth century was greeted with a mixture of awe, scepticism and sometimes even disdain from sections of the European public. In this article, the steps taken in France to pioneer and promote this new invention are examined. Unreliable and noisy, the early automobile owes a debt of gratitude to the French aristocracy who organised and codified motor racing in an effort to test these new inventions while…
IRF Off
Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht has always been ‘fourth among equals’ in the pecking order of Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the administration of a game that was no longer amateur prompted the Irish Rugby Football Union to assess the viability of its constituent parts and to implement radical cost-cutting strategies, resulting in advanced plans to disband Connacht as a profess…
Blending learning – from niche to norm
Blended Learning has existed for many years, and while it has gradually been gaining a measure of impetus in third-level programmes, it has traditionally been used as a cost-effective way to deliver part-time courses to adult learners. Delivered at times that are usually considered outside of core teaching hours (evening classes and weekend workshops), blended-learning programmes have often been delivered by part-time staff or research students r…
Does anyone still want to go to lectures? Student perceptions of the face-to-face lecture in an Irish university
Lectures have been part of the University tradition for centuries and remain an integral part of Higher Education in Ireland. However, in recent years the place of the lecture has been questioned, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducted amongst Arts students in the University of Galway sought to establish whether students still valued the face-to-face lecture as part of their University education, and how they…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irish (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Online and Blended Learning (2 works) · Politics (2 works)