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Personalised E-Learning: Facilitating Students' Understanding And Mastery Of New Concepts, Eileen O'Donnell, Victoria Macarthur, Mary Sharp Jan 2012

Personalised E-Learning: Facilitating Students' Understanding And Mastery Of New Concepts, Eileen O'Donnell, Victoria Macarthur, Mary Sharp

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Each individual perceives and experiences life and learning in their own unique way. Past experiences can influence our understanding and mastery of new concepts. Occasionally, learners meet obstacles in their learning experiences which they find difficult to surmount.Not all learners require the same learning experience to reach the required thresholds or basic units of understanding which are expected to succeed with their course of study. Threshold concepts are part of the fundamentals of a subject which one builds upon to eventually achieve the required learning outcomes. The provision of personalised e-learning resources to assist students to surmount their personal learning …


Personalised Role Playing Simulations, Eileen O'Donnell, Mary Sharpe Jan 2011

Personalised Role Playing Simulations, Eileen O'Donnell, Mary Sharpe

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This research explores the use of personalised role playing simulations to encourage active student engagement in the learning process. Personalised role playing simulations could provide educators with an alternative teaching methodology, and students with course content tailored to their needs. The personalisation of student learning resources could be based on: level of achievement; prior experience; learning preferences; relevance of learning resources to individual students’ requirements; and lecturers or students choice of direction through the units of learning provided. Some of the advantages of using personalised role playing simulations include: inexpensive to produce; easy to create; re-usable; not life threatening; engaging; …


Students' Overview: The Impact Of Technology On Learning In Higher Education, Eileen O'Donnell, Mary Sharp Jan 2010

Students' Overview: The Impact Of Technology On Learning In Higher Education, Eileen O'Donnell, Mary Sharp

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This research explores students’ views on the impact and transformations that technology has brought to the learning experience of students in higher education. The students who kindly participated in this study are from: The School of Computer Science and Statistics, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science, Trinity College Dublin and The Faculty of Business, Technological University Dublin, both based in Dublin City, Ireland. The use of technologies in third level education facilitates flexible learning environments. The pedagogic approach employed by e-learning development officers or lecturers when designing e-learning platforms or learning management systems has the capability to transform student learning. …


Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development In The Visual Communications Sector In Ireland, Con Kennedy Sep 2009

Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development In The Visual Communications Sector In Ireland, Con Kennedy

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This research is concerned with identifying the benefits of Continuous Professional Development for the Visual Communications sector in Ireland, with the aim of establishing what benefits exist for both the employee and employer. Research is undertaken to identify CPD programmes that currently exist in other industries in Ireland for the purpose of establishing commonalities and how this may apply to the Visual Communications sector. This is achieved through a combination of literature review, desk research, surveys of employees and employers in the Visual Communications sector and a number of semi-formal interviews with representatives from various industry sectors with established CPD …


Dublin College Catering 1941-1991 (Cathal Brugha St, Dublin 1), Noel O'Connor Jan 1991

Dublin College Catering 1941-1991 (Cathal Brugha St, Dublin 1), Noel O'Connor

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This book was compiled to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Dublin College of Catering, Cathal Brugha Street in 1991. This college has played a central role in the development of education for the hotel, catering and tourism industry in Ireland over these 50 years leading up to 1991. As the College (now referred to as The College of Arts and Tourism, enters 2019, the work continues servicing the educational and skills needs of wider culinary and hospitality industries in Ireland and abroad).


Bartenders And Cocktails Of Ireland 1989-1993: Extracts From ‘Bartenders Association Of Ireland: A History Extended Version ], James Murphy Jan 1989

Bartenders And Cocktails Of Ireland 1989-1993: Extracts From ‘Bartenders Association Of Ireland: A History Extended Version ], James Murphy

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Bartenders Association of Ireland – A History book captured the many social and professional practice events, awards, new drinks and hotels services launched, significant bar and cocktail industry people and their contributions plus the many community activities which the bartenders and members of the Bartenders Association of Ireland (BAI) have successfully completed from the 1940s up to the late 1990s. The successful completion of these activities would not be been possible without the active and on-going support of the many Irish and international drinks and hospitality establishments (association supporters) and the association’s membership and active support of initially the UKBG …


Ukbg Bartenders Newsletters – Irish Branch Section, 1948-1970, James Murphy Jan 1948

Ukbg Bartenders Newsletters – Irish Branch Section, 1948-1970, James Murphy

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UKBG – Irish Branch Bartenders Newsletter captured the many social and professional practice events, awards, new drinks and hotels services launched, significant bar and cocktail industry people and their contributions plus the many community activities which the bartenders and members of the United Kingdom Bartenders Association (UKBG) – Irish Branch successfully completed up the period of 1948. These events include the earliest cocktail competitions held in Ireland, the famous bartenders and the equally famous locations where they worked. The successful completion of these activities would not be been possible without the active and on-going support of the many Irish and …