Michael Smalle is a librarian at the University of Limerick. Michael works with First Year students in particular, to assist with their transition to University.

2. What do we know about student engagement & success?
Student need to know
expectations
Support Feedback
Socially &
Academically
Engaged

3. ‘Making the Leap’ – The UL Context
Library
Michael Smalle
Student Affairs
Sarah Gibbons
Teaching &
Learning
David Maloney

5. Irish Survey of Student Engagement

6. Peer Advisors

8. Timely & Relevant Advice from your Peers

11. Week 1
Week
2
Week
3
Week
4 Week 5 Total
Catalogue Queries 225 263 117 110 100
Directional query (internal) 296 283 199 170 153
Printers 152 287 258 197 154
Computer/Email account setup 175 220 104 52 47
Other 81 38 23 20 23
Self Issue machines 94 94 54 64 54
Directional query (external) 128 117 80 81 76
Referred to Info Desk 88 96 100 81 77
Other (specify in notes section) 77 149 46 22 21
Referred to ITD 215 50 46 27 24
Module Registration (SULIS) 89 15 0 0 0
Access Gates-problem card 19 0 1 0 0
Access Gates- General 24 2 0 0 0
Access Gates-disability query 15 0 0 0 0
Total queries 1678 1614 1028 846 729 5895
Total queries 1384 1068 724 446 294 4242
2015 Stats for the first 5 weeks
2014

12. Promoting the Role of 1st Year Librarian for Student Engagement & Success

16. How to solve a problem… How to write a song… How to tackle an assignment…
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/

18. A MOOC which supports students in the transition from 2nd to 3rd level education in Ireland
The Learning Journey MOOC is a project supported by the National Forum for Teaching and
Learning Building Digital Capacity fund. It is a collaborative project involving Sligo Institute of
Technology, Galway-Mayo IT, Limerick IT, Mary Immaculate College , University of Limerick,
Letterkenny IT and The National University of Ireland Galway. The focus of this project is to create
a MOOC that will help students in transiting from 2nd to 3rd level education.
What is a MOOC? A MOOC can be described as 'A course of study made available over the
Internet which is free, and is open meaning it has no participant limits, anyone who decides to
take a MOOC just logs into the course and begins'.
Teachers and Students, we want you to get involved!
The Learning Journey MOOC is still in development but we want you to get on-board, after all this
MOOC is being developed with you in mind. Use the MOOC in the classroom or self directed and
give us your feedback.