Vice Dean for Undergraduate Programmes and Learning and Teaching

01 659 9260

frances.sheridan@ncirl.ie

Key Responsibilities at NCI

• Frances Sheridan is an Assistant Professor in Computing at National College of Ireland (NCI). Until 2013, Frances was also responsible for running the Computing Support Service at NCI but has now moved to lecturing full time.

Education

• MSc. in Technology and Learning, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [2008]
• BSc. (Hons) in Software Systems, National College of Ireland [2006]
• Higher Certificate in Computing Applications and Support, National College of Ireland [2003]

Research Interests

• Frances has particular interests in student engagement and retention and her pedagogical interests include Flipped Classrooms and Problem Based Learning. More specifically, her work examines the integration of the Flipped Classroom approach with Problem Based Learning to strengthen research skills among first year students.

Funding and Awards

• Awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at National College of Ireland in 2013:
  • The Distinguished Teaching Award is awarded for teaching that goes beyond the minimum requirement and which best be described as a sustained performance of excellence. It recognises the type of teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, inspires colleagues, and makes students aware of significant relationships between academic theory and the world outside.
• Awarded NAIRTL Grant funding of €5000 in 2009/2010 for a collaborative project with the NCI Maths Support Tutor entitled "Development of an Adaptive Tutoring System for a Computing and Business Mathematics Module as a way to Facilitate Self-directed Learning through the use of the On-line Virtual Learning Environment Moodle".

Research Publications

Published International Journal Articles

• Delahunt, Brid, Everitt-Reynolds, Ann, Maguire, Moira and Sheridan, Frances (2012) "Situating Academic Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Some Reflections". AISHE-J: The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 4 (2). 69:1-69:10. ISSN 2009-3160.

Book Chapters

• Stynes, Paul, Muntean, Cristina Hava, Sheridan, Frances, Thornbury, Emer and Pathak, Pramod (2024) "Research Supervision Framework: A Student's Experience". In: EDUNINE 2024 - 8th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference. IEEE, Guatemala City, Guatemala. ISBN 9798350348729
• Thornbury, Emer, Sheridan, Frances, Muntean, Cristina Hava, Pathak, Pramod and Stynes, Paul (2023) "A Tutoring Framework to Support Computer Science Programmes in Higher Education". In: VII IEEE World Engineering Education Conference (EDUNINE23). IEEE, Bogotá, Colombia.
• Sheridan, Frances, Thornbury, Emer, Murphy, Lisa, Muntean, Cristina Hava, Pathak, Pramod and Stynes, Paul (2022) "A Framework for Managing the Transition from Second Level to Higher Education in Response to the COVID19 Emergency Restrictions". In: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 1-7. ISBN 978-1-6654-6244-0
• Stynes, Paul, Cogan, Sam, Sheridan, Frances and Pathak, Pramod (2022) "A Process Model for transitioning to alternative assessment and authentication in response to the COVID19 emergency restrictions". In: EDUNINE 2022 - 6th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Rethinking Engineering Education After COVID-19: A Path to the New Normal, Proceedings. IEEE. ISBN 978-1-6654-8336-0
• Sheridan, Frances (2013) "The Fresher Agenda - Improving retention through early student engagement". In: 14th Biennial CSSI Conference: Mind, Body, Spirit: The Holistic Approach to the Student Experience Conference Proceedings. Confederation of Student Services in Ireland, pp. 29-33. ISBN 9780951467572.
• Sheridan, Frances and Lahart, Orla (2009) "Using Student Understanding to inform the development of Learning Content". In: Proceedings, AISHE-C 2009, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 27-28 Aug 2009. All Ireland Society for Higher Education, 134.1-134.6.

Conference Papers

• Sheridan, Frances (2014) "The chicken, the egg and the flipped classroom". In: FlipCon14 -- 7th Annual Flipped Conference, 23rd-25th June 2014 Mars, PA, USA.
• Sheridan, Frances (2014) "Reflections on a Year of Flipped Learning". In: EdTech 2014: The 15th Educational Technology Conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), 29th-30th May 2014 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 
• Sheridan, Frances and Cogan, Sam (2014) "Flipping the Classroom". In: Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) Conference 2014: "Spark the Imagination", 1st March 2014 Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Galway. 
• Sheridan, Frances, (2013) "Problem Based Learning: The Flipped Approach". In: ECTC 2013 : The Inaugural European Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2013, 11th-14th July 2013 Thistle Hotel, Brighton, England.
• Lambert, Jonathan and Sheridan, Frances (2010) "Literature review on the utilisation of Virtual Learning Environments in facilitating mathematics teaching and learning". In: National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) and the Learning Innovation Network (LIN) 6th-7th October 2010, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

Thesis

• Sheridan, Frances (2008) "Understanding Iteration - the use of phenomenography to enhance teaching and learning in computer programming". Masters thesis, Trinity College Dublin.