Biography
Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn is a lecturer in Technical Communication and Instructional Design at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She 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 her research and 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/
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 on PhD to completion.
Recent Research Activities:
Collaborator on a National Forum funded project to examine how digital teaching and learning resources can be used, developed and shared in order to enhance teaching and learning in Irish higher education. For more details see:
http://www.teachingandlearning.ie/t-l-scholarship/national-forum-research-projects/
Collaborator on EU funded project (with University of Reading) "Reading to do: mapping the user experience of paper and electronic texts."
Member of the Management Committee for COST Action CA19142 LEAD-ME
For more details see:
https://lead-me-cost.eu
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