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PhD in Education (Learning Sciences) Spring Graduation

Dr Tony Hall with Dr Mary Higgins

Feb 24 2016 Posted: 12:41 GMT

Congratulations to Dr Mary Higgins who was conferred with her PhD in Education (Learning Sciences) at the Spring Conferring on Wednesday 24^th February. Dr Higgins’ thesis, entitled: “Applied Learning: A Design Model for Further Education in the 21st Century”, developed a bespoke design-based research model, AACES, to support applied and technology-enhanced learning in adult, continuing and further education. Dr Higgins’ research was supervised by Dr Tony Hall, Lecturer in Educational Technology, School of Education, NUI Galway.

Jim Lenaghan @edtechne

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