Celebrating the Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

I was honoured to chair the judging panel of the second Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in DCU's Helix recently. The judging panel consisted of Karlin Lillington (Irish Times), Muiris O'Connor (HEA), Sheila Porter (IBM) and Brendan Tangney (TCD).

John O'Connor (DIT) won the award for his Second Life project 'Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?'. The four other short-listed projects were all truly innovative and captured the spirit of the Award perfectly. More information on the finalists and the process is available from the Award web site.

From a judging perspective, the decision making was very difficult due to the high standards set by the finalists. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and Karlin has written about her take on the process in a lovely article in the Irish Times.

John will be presenting his project at the EdTech2010 conference in Athlone IT on May 20-21, and will be presented the Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Learning and Teaching to close the conference. Registration is now open for EdTech 2010. Click here for details.