Biography
Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn is currently the Course Director for the MA in Technical Communication and E-Learning. Previous to this Ann was the Course Director (2013-2019) for the Graduate Certificate in Technical Writing by Distance. Ann has been awarded both national and international funding for research including the OECD, the EDF and Google. Ann has had national media coverage of her work. For example: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/books-better-than-screens-for-students-study-finds-1.37726...and https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/why-low-tech-schools-are-trending-1.3789996During the Covid-19 pandemic Ann was invited to contribute to many events both national and international. Ann was invited to speak about Open Education Practices at Civil Society side event/symposium held alongside the United Nations Science,Technology and Innovations (STI) Forum . https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2021
Ann was also invited to write about the opportunities and the issues associated with technology in schools and the digital divide during the pandemic. These included articles and opinion editorials for The Irish Times and guest contributions elsewhere including Ireland's first Virtual Summit for all levels of education. This ran online between May 3rd and 6th. Ann also wrote an invited guest blog on technology in education during the Covid-19 pandemic for the Irish Humanities Alliance: https://www.irishhumanities.com/blog/covid-19-and-digital-learning/
During the Covid-19 pandemic Ann has consulted as an independent expert with Barnardos and the Early School Leavers' Programme in Ireland.
Selected Invited Talks
Online Webinar (funded) as part of the National Forum series on Teaching and Learning November 17th, 2020. Hosted by Athlone IT.ResearchEd, Dublin October 2019.
Goethe Institute 'Chat Bot, Art Bot, Book Bot' held on March 21st and March 22nd 2019 , Dublin. ResearchED, Dublin, 2019.
In a previous role Ann worked with the National Digital Learning Resources service (NDLR) as a national advocate for Open Educational Resources. Ann has a wide range of publications to date reflecting her specialist teaching and research interests, including, eLearning Open Educational Resources (OERs), usability, instructional design and the use of ICT at post-primary level. A case study on the impact of Ann's research was published by the Irish Humanities Alliance . This is available at http://www.irishhumanities.com/impact-case-studies/ict-and-instructional-design/
A full list of publications is available at: https://www.scholar.live/citations?user=ujySU1wAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Interests
Interaction Design, Technical Communication, Instructional Design, ICT in K12 Education.An impact case study of her research is available at: http://www.irishhumanities.com/impact-case-studies/ict-and-instructional-design/
Recent Research Activities (2023)
Research report for the OECD to inform the Higher Education Policy Team's work on digital education.
Research report for the European Disability Forum on Assistive Technology in the workplace.
Research report for the DG EAC on teacher shortages.
WG2 Leader and Management Committee for COST Action CA19142 LEAD-ME. For more details see:
https://lead-me-cost.eu
During the Covid-19 pandemic Ann was invited to contribute to many events both national and international. Ann was invited to speak about Open Education Practices at Civil Society side event/symposium held alongside the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovations (STI) Forum . https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2021
Ann was also invited to write about the opportunities and the issues associated with technology in schools and the digital divide during the pandemic. These included articles and opinion editorials for The Irish Times and guest contributions elsewhere including Ireland's first Virtual Summit for all levels of education. This ran online between May 3rd and 6th. Ann also wrote an invited guest blog on technology in education during the Covid-19 pandemic for the Irish Humanities Alliance: https://www.irishhumanities.com/blog/covid-19-and-digital-learning/
Ann is currently co-supervising two PhD candidates and has supervised one PhD to completion.
Professional Activities
Education
- 2011 University of Limerick - Ph.D.
- 2004 University of Limerick - M.A.
- 2000 Mary Immaculate - B.A.
Association
- 2007 Committee member, ILTA (Irish Learning Technologies Association)
Award
- - European Award for Languages
Language
- German