Geraldine Gray

Non-Cognitive Factors of Learning as Early Indicators of Students at-Risk of Failing in Tertiary Education

It is increasingly evident that significant numbers of college students do not complete the courses on which they enrol, particularly for courses with lower entry requirements (ACT, 2012). Enrolment numbers to tertiary education are increasing, as is diversity in student populations (OECD, 2013). This adds to the challenge of both identifying students at risk of failing, and provisioning appropriate supports to enable all students perform optimally (Mooney et al., 2010).

Workshop on methodology in learning analytics (MLA)

Learning analytics is an interdisciplinary and inclusive field, a fact which makes the establishment of methodological norms both challenging and important. This community-building workshop intends to convene methodology-focused researchers to discuss new and established approaches, comment on the state of current practice, author pedagogical manuscripts, and co-develop guidelines to help move the field forward with quality and rigor.

Using Learning Styles to Optimise Lecturer and Learner Experience and Results in an Institute of Education

The past decade of social policy making and legislative change in Ireland has led to a ‘broader range of individuals’ accessing higher education (ITB, 2006, HEA 2005, Duffin forthcoming). This means that class groups contain a greater range of diversity of learning behaviours than hitherto. The process of accommodating this range of learning behaviours within curriculum development and assessment poses a challenge for lecturers and students alike. This paper suggests how understanding the relationship of learning styles to cognitive processing can provide sound research support to the use of learning styles profiling to create conditions for optimal achievement in terms of student retention, attendance and achievement.

Virtual credit card processing system

The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown decided in 1999 to teach Java to our computing students from 1st year. Java is now being used to support the practical component of all our subjects. This paper presents a project implemented by two of our third year students as a case study of what students can achieve after 3 years of Java programming. The virtual credit card processing system is an e-business system which provides a secure and universal mechanism for making purchases over the Internet. The system uses Remote Method Invocation(RMI), Java Server Pages(JSP), Java Servlets and Java Database Connectivity(JDBC).

XML for Business to Business Data Exchange

This paper examines to use of XML for business to business data exchange. Starting with creating an XML document from an existing data source and transmitting that document, we explain some of the supporting standards for XML which facilitate automated processing and transformation of an XML document. Finally we look at the advantages of using XML, and why it is expected to revolutionise electronic data interchange. Introduction to XML The Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is a subset of SGML, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide a freely available, widely transportable methodology for controlled data interchange. XML was designed principally for the exchange of information in the form of computer documents over the Internet.[4], [7]. An XML document contains data, and tags which describe that data. The tags are syntactically similar to HTML tags, however unlike HTML, XML tags are not pre-defined. When creating a document, you decide what tags are required in a document, and what each tag will be called. This allows an XML document structure to mirror the equivalent business documents. Figure 1: XML Document. 14 May 1999 Joe Bloggs Dublin 1 Elicon 250g 1 Figure 1: XML Document medical prescription 7 HTML, the language currently used to create web pages, is also a subset of SGML.