Biography
Caitríona’s role in Academic Practice involves the development and delivery of evidence based professional development for academic staff within Trinity, and contributing to funded projects on educational developments, such as the HCI initiative. Caitríona has worked in higher education across a variety of roles since 2008.
Her most recent prior role was as an Education Developer for Professional Development in the National Forum, she managed and evaluated the roll out of the National Forum’s suite of digitally badged professional development courses and supported the upgrading of the Open Courses platform. Prior to this, Caitríona designed, developed and implemented a short course for online educators as part of the #openteach project, led by DCU. In 2021 Caitríona completed her PhD on the use of technology-enhanced resources to support formative assessment in undergraduate Mathematics. Her current work is focused on curriculum design, encompassing aspects such as sustainability in the curriculum.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Ní Shé, C. Mac an Bhaird, C. & Ní Fhloinn, E. (2023) Factors that influence student engagement with technology-enhanced resources for formative assessments in first-year undergraduate mathematics, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2023.2182725
- Ní Shé, C.; Ní Fhloinn, E.; Mac an Bhaird, C. (2023) Student Engagement with Technology Enhanced Resources in Mathematics in Higher Education: A Review. Mathematics, 11, 787. https:// doi.org/10.3390/math11030787
- Farrell, O., Brunton, J., Ní Shé, C., Costello, E. (2022). Professional Learning for Open Online Educators: The #Openteach Story. In: Forbes, D., Walker, R. (eds) Developing Online Teaching in Higher Education. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 29. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5587-7_2
- Caitríona Ní Shé, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Eabhnat Ní Fhloinn, Ann O’Shea; Students’ and lecturers’ views on mathematics resources. Teaching Mathematics Applications 2017 hrw026. doi: 10.1093/teamat/hrw026
- Ní Shé, C., Mac an Bhaird, C., Ní Fhloinn, E., & O’Shea, A. (2017). Problematic topics in first-year mathematics: lecturer and student views, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 48:5, 715-734, DOI: 10.1080/0020739X.2016.1272142
Research Expertise
PhD research on technology use in undergraduate mathematics education.Description
Investigating student engagement with technology enhanced resources in undergraduate mathematics education
Analysing Teaching, Learning and Assessment Survey 2021-2022, Trinity College Dublin
Investigating academics experiences of digital and online technologies for teaching, learning and assessment during Covid.
Projects
- Assessment For Learning: Resources for First Year Undergraduate Mathematics Modules (2015-2017)
- Digital by Design project, trinity College Dublin (2021-2022) Funded by National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Ireland