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Teachers Perspectives on the Effective Implementation of Social, Personal and Health Education in the Irish Primary Classroom
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2018-07)The principal objective of this research is to identify primary schools teacher’s attitudes and feelings towards the effective implementation of the Social, Personal and Health Education in Irish Primary Schools. Prior to ... -
Teachers’ experiences and perspectives of continuous Professional Development in a Post Primary School.
(2020-07)Continuous professional development (CPD) of teachers has become paramount in most educational systems aimed at improving standards in schools. The purpose of this study is to explore teachers’ experiences and perspectives ... -
Teachers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards the benefits and challenges of the new inclusion model for Special Education Teaching
(2020-07)The new inclusion model for special education teaching has brought significant change in the epistemology of SET and the roles and responsibilities of the mainstream class teacher. This study examines current literature ... -
Teaching a second language to Anglophones: evidence from Ireland
(2011)Evidence from the British academy indicates that the decline in modern language learning in the UK endangers the ability of the UK to compete with researchers who are more linguistically competent. Indeed this is a challenge ... -
Teaching academic writing skills at Level 9: An evaluation
(AISHE, 2009)This study is an evaluation of a level 9 academic writing skills module in the School of Business Studies, Letterkenny IT. A 5 credit writing module was offered to all masters students in support of their dissertations. ... -
Teaching java programming using cable in a collaborative online environment
(Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES), 2012-07)With the emergence and evolution of computer hardware, software and networks - virtual classrooms now exist which enable teachers and students to experience learning activities and to work together at a distance either ... -
Theory and practice: the experience of marketing graduates
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)Purpose – This paper explores the experience of graduates in the workplace. The aim is to study how these experiences differ from the expectations of the graduates and the aspirations of their academics. Design Methodology ... -
‘Think B4 U Click’: an educational online safety resource for the Irish CSPE curriculum
(Association for Media Education in Scotland, 2012)Young people in Ireland, like their counterparts across Europe, are enthusiastic social networkers. EU Kids Online found that in 2010 82% of children in Ireland, aged 13-16, had a social networking (SNS) profile (O’Neill, ... -
Threat modelling for legacy enterprise applications
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2013)Legacy enterprise applications provide unique challenges for software security personnel. The size and historical nature of these systems can result in vulnerabilities that do not have the appropriate countermeasures ... -
To assess the engagement potential of familiar auditory instruction in a prototype computer program specifically developed for moderately autistic children
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To bond and bridge: The expression of collaboration and social capital in a developed world ecotourism destination
(11th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC), 2015-06)This paper explores social capital in the context of a social network designed to promote ecotourism among local businesses in an area known as the Greenbox in northwest Ireland. The Greenbox was developed as an ecotourism ... -
To explore the learning experience of first year undergraduate nursing students in relation to their first encounter of the preceptorship model of nursing education
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2016-07-29)Rationale: In recent years nursing has undergone changes in the way student nurses are educated from the Apprenticeship Model to the Preceptorship Model of clinical education. The Preceptorship Model is now an important ... -
To explore the validity of a self assessment tool in the development of transversal skills including self-regulation
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2018-07)The changing economy has exerted pressure on education and training courses to produce graduates with transversal skills ready to function in a dynamic labour market and life-long learning. This study evaluated the ... -
To investigate the economic impact of the Irish film industry with particular emphasis on the tourism sector
(11th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC), 2015-06)The aim of this research study is to investigate the economic impact of the Irish film industry with particular emphasis on the tourism sector. The specific economic impacts that will be focused on in this research study ... -
To Wireless Fidelity and Beyond - CAPTURE, Extending Indoor Positioning Systems
(IEEE, 2014-10-24)The benefits of context aware computing and specifically the context that location can provide to applications and systems has been heavily documented in recent times. Moreover the move from traditional outdoor ... -
Tourism in a heritage town in the South East of Ireland: Current offering, gaps & opportunities.
(11th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC), 2015-06)Located in Co. Cork, on the south coast of Ireland, Youghal is a remarkable town with treasures to rival any town on the world stage, a place where historical and medieval characteristics are second to none. The town of ... -
Towards shifted NMF for improved monaural separation
(Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2013), 24th IET Irish, 2013-06)The ability of Non-negative Matrix Factorisation (NMF) to decompose magnitude spectrogram into meaningful entities has found use in many audio applications. NMF can be used to factorise audio spectrogram of a music signal ... -
Town Centre Management: a solution to the challenges facing urban centres?
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011)The purpose of this paper is to explore the experience of towns which utilize Town Centre Management (TCM) initiatives. The findings which emerge offer insights into how TCM can aid the development of urban centers. Des ... -
Tracking student progress through hospitality management education: a linguistic analysis.
(11th Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference (THRIC), 2015-06)Language is one of the primary methods of human communication and nowhere is this more relevant than in the hospitality and tourism industries. Successful interpersonal and communication skills are essential to the ... -
Traffic isolation techniques in securing multi-tenant virtual environments
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-01)A fundamental function of almost any network is to ensure that certain types of traffic are kept isolated from other traffic in the network. With multi-tenant environments such as datacentres and the cloud providing isolation ...