Background to Level3

The development of an online DIT journal of research and scholarly activity was a logical progression of the professional development trajectory already established across the DIT.

A number of recent developments gave impetus to that trajectory, including:

• the establishment of a Learning and Teaching Strategies Committee of Academic Council in 1997
• the creation of the Learning and Teaching Centre in Mount Street in 2000
• the formulation of DIT policy on Research and Scholarly Activity in 2000
• the appointment of a Head of Research Activities in 2002
• the recruitment of the Learning Technology Team in 2002
• the research activities of DIT academic staff on the DIT Masters Programme in Third Level Learning and Teaching an in eLearning
•the growing interest among doctoral students in publishing their research scholarly journals
• the increase in research by DIT staff with consequent increase in a range of publication modes