Enda Donlon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6770052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enda Donlon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enda |
| FAMILY NAME | Donlon |
| SIGNATURE | DONLON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2817-9033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice
This paper examines the extent to which pre-service teachers exhibit improvements in their professional practice while on placement in their final years of initial teacher education (ITE). This research involved an analysis of the placement grades of three cohorts of pre-service post-primary teachers (N = 198) as they completed the final two years of a four-year concurrent programme of teacher education in the Republic of Ireland. For those place…
Bridging the coursework-placement gap
This paper explores the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme to enhance student teachers’ learning experiences. Using a custom-built VR environment, the study examines how student teachers engaged in practice-based learning, self-reflection, and peer collaboration within the virtual space. The findings demonstrate VR’s potential in fostering classroom readiness, enabling student teachers to experimen…
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment
In early 2020, Initial Teacher Education providers were forced to reimagine many long-established practices due to pandemic restrictions.One post-primary concurrent Initial Teacher Education programme in the Republic of Ireland responded by conceptualising and developing an initiative to engage pre-service teachers in an authentic assessment task through the preparation of a classroom-based assessment from the perspective of the pupil.They then e…
Information and Media Literacy in the Age of AI
The concepts of information and media literacy have been central components of digital literacy since the digitization of information began. However, the increasing influence of artificial intelligence on how individuals locate, evaluate, and create content has significant implications for what it means to be information and media literate. This paper begins by exploring the role artificial intelligence plays at the various stages of information …
Virtual and augmented reality and pre-service teachers
This study examined the impact of a brief immersive experience with virtual reality (VR) on pre-service teachers' self-efficacy and attitudes towards technology in education. The study found that although pre-service teachers were aware of VR and augmented reality (AR) technologies, they lacked experience using them. The intervention had a positive impact on their beliefs and confidence in using innovative information and communications technolog…
Virtual Reality in Initial Teacher Education (VRITE)
This small-scale design-based study describes a cyclical model of professional learning between three stakeholders in initial teacher education (ITE) namely: university-based educators (UEs), student teachers (STs) and co-operating teachers (CTs). This model promotes the development of digital learning leaders through an innovative mentoring process. This process started with university-based educators (UEs) mentoring their student teachers (STs)…
Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments
In Ireland, as around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) adopt innovative approaches to ensure the continuity of placement-related components of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. One post-primary concurrent ITE programme conceptualised and developed the Teaching Online Programme (TOP), a multifaceted initiative to introduce student-teachers to the theory and practice of synchronous an…
Adaptter
Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem-solving process applicable across all disciplines. It has been defined as a 21 st -century skill (Wing, Communications of the ACM , 49 (3), 33–35, 2006). Unfortunately, little pedagogical research is available to guide teachers and designers when devising a CT course. This study addresses this issue by describing how a framework to teach CT to second-level students evolved. This framework, ADAPTTER, has be…
Lost and found
Conferences are widely recognised as a central component of academic life, providing important opportunities for dissemination of research, professional networking, and extending scholarship. Notwithstanding this, concerns are increasingly voiced around such factors as the environmental and sustainability aspects of conference travel and hosting, and issues of equity and access. The imposition of travel and congregation restrictions as a result o…
‘The Pandemic Will Not be on Zoom’
This paper aims to interpret, analyse, and critique educational pasts, presents, and\nfutures. It is framed by potentially falsifiable memories of colonization and struggles\nfor identity and social justice. We adopt the device of social science fiction (Gerlach\nand Hamilton 2003) as a specialist genre of speculative fiction (Graham et al. 2019).\nSuch speculative approaches seek to develop provocations rather than predictions\n(Selwyn et al. 20…
Collaboration, collation, and competition
This paper reports on a distinctive one-year online open crowdsourcing initiative which originated in the Republic of Ireland with a view to compiling an A–Z directory of educational technology tools for teaching and learning. Through analysis of multiple sources of data, the paper presents an intrinsic case study which outlines the design and implementation of the initiative and offers critical insights into engagement and participation in the p…
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‘The Pandemic Will Not be on Zoom’
This paper aims to interpret, analyse, and critique educational pasts, presents, and\nfutures. It is framed by potentially falsifiable memories of colonization and struggles\nfor identity and social justice. We adopt the device of social science fiction (Gerlach\nand Hamilton 2003) as a specialist genre of speculative fiction (Graham et al. 2019).\nSuch speculative approaches seek to develop provocations rather than predictions\n(Selwyn et al. 20…
Collaboration, collation, and competition
This paper reports on a distinctive one-year online open crowdsourcing initiative which originated in the Republic of Ireland with a view to compiling an A–Z directory of educational technology tools for teaching and learning. Through analysis of multiple sources of data, the paper presents an intrinsic case study which outlines the design and implementation of the initiative and offers critical insights into engagement and participation in the p…
Lost and found
Conferences are widely recognised as a central component of academic life, providing important opportunities for dissemination of research, professional networking, and extending scholarship. Notwithstanding this, concerns are increasingly voiced around such factors as the environmental and sustainability aspects of conference travel and hosting, and issues of equity and access. The imposition of travel and congregation restrictions as a result o…
Virtual Reality in Initial Teacher Education (VRITE)
This small-scale design-based study describes a cyclical model of professional learning between three stakeholders in initial teacher education (ITE) namely: university-based educators (UEs), student teachers (STs) and co-operating teachers (CTs). This model promotes the development of digital learning leaders through an innovative mentoring process. This process started with university-based educators (UEs) mentoring their student teachers (STs)…
Presence accounted for? student-teachers establishing and experiencing presence in synchronous online teaching environments
In Ireland, as around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) adopt innovative approaches to ensure the continuity of placement-related components of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. One post-primary concurrent ITE programme conceptualised and developed the Teaching Online Programme (TOP), a multifaceted initiative to introduce student-teachers to the theory and practice of synchronous an…
Adaptter
Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem-solving process applicable across all disciplines. It has been defined as a 21 st -century skill (Wing, Communications of the ACM , 49 (3), 33–35, 2006). Unfortunately, little pedagogical research is available to guide teachers and designers when devising a CT course. This study addresses this issue by describing how a framework to teach CT to second-level students evolved. This framework, ADAPTTER, has be…
Information and Media Literacy in the Age of AI
The concepts of information and media literacy have been central components of digital literacy since the digitization of information began. However, the increasing influence of artificial intelligence on how individuals locate, evaluate, and create content has significant implications for what it means to be information and media literate. This paper begins by exploring the role artificial intelligence plays at the various stages of information …
Virtual and augmented reality and pre-service teachers
This study examined the impact of a brief immersive experience with virtual reality (VR) on pre-service teachers' self-efficacy and attitudes towards technology in education. The study found that although pre-service teachers were aware of VR and augmented reality (AR) technologies, they lacked experience using them. The intervention had a positive impact on their beliefs and confidence in using innovative information and communications technolog…
Re-envisioning pre-service teachers’ beliefs and feelings about assessment
In early 2020, Initial Teacher Education providers were forced to reimagine many long-established practices due to pandemic restrictions.One post-primary concurrent Initial Teacher Education programme in the Republic of Ireland responded by conceptualising and developing an initiative to engage pre-service teachers in an authentic assessment task through the preparation of a classroom-based assessment from the perspective of the pupil.They then e…
Understanding pre-service teachers’ improvement in professional practice
This paper examines the extent to which pre-service teachers exhibit improvements in their professional practice while on placement in their final years of initial teacher education (ITE). This research involved an analysis of the placement grades of three cohorts of pre-service post-primary teachers (N = 198) as they completed the final two years of a four-year concurrent programme of teacher education in the Republic of Ireland. For those place…
Bridging the coursework-placement gap
This paper explores the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme to enhance student teachers’ learning experiences. Using a custom-built VR environment, the study examines how student teachers engaged in practice-based learning, self-reflection, and peer collaboration within the virtual space. The findings demonstrate VR’s potential in fostering classroom readiness, enabling student teachers to experimen…
Computer Science (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Educational technology (3 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (3 works) · Teacher education (3 works)