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Issue 1 - November 2003
Title - Information-literacy
programmes and course curricula:
the case for integration
Authors - Anne
Ambrose and Brian Gillespie
Article text - The advent of the internet, and the
profusion, complexity and haphazard nature of the information available
through electronic and digital resources generally, [more
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Title - Turning an
articulated truck on a spreadsheet
Author - Jim
McGovern
Article text - This paper describes how a standard
office spreadsheet application was used to set up an engineering
model for the simulation and analysis of the turning of articulated
trucks. [more >>]
Title - Towards the
promotion of effective e-learning practice for academic-staff development
in DIT
Author - Roisin
Donnelly and Frances O' Brien
Article text - Despite the many challenges facing
educators today, as well as the array of teaching paradigms on offer,
the principal goals of higher education will always remain the same:
[more >>]
Title - Mature students:an
examination of DIT’s policy and practice
Author - Dáire
Mag Cuill
Article text - This paper examines the current situation
of mature students within the DIT. It documents policy – national,
international and DIT-specific – [more
>>]
Title - To catch a
thief: what to do with plagiarists in the language, literature,
or culture classroom
Author - Sue
Norton
Article text - This
paper looks at why students in higher education, particularly in
language, literature, and culture courses, plagiarise. It considers
some of the ways assessors respond [more
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Title
- ‘Situated learning’, ‘distributed cognition’:
Do academics really need to know?
Author - Anne
Murphy
Article text - The dominant approach to the study
of learning throughout most of the twentieth century was to view
learning as cognitive only, as if it were a process contained in
the mind of the learner, decontextualised from the lived-in world.
[more >>]
Title - Ecotoxicological
research at DIT
Author - Maria
Davoren, Colm O’Dowd and Sharon Ní Shúilleabháin
Article text - The term ecotoxicology, first defined
by René Truhart in 1969, essentially describes the study
of the harmful effects of chemicals upon ecosystems and understanding
the [more >>]
Title
- DIT and student retention
Author - Frank
Costello
Article text - The retention of students and the
enhancement of their educational experience must serve as one of
the core principles of any institution charged with fulfilling a
national and international role in providing full-time and part-time
programmes in higher education [more
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Title - The implications
of the curriculum process on the design of a modern engineering
programme in the Dublin Institute of Technology
Author - Kevin
Kelly
Article text - In
the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) the curriculum usually
starts with a programme document. The programme document will be
a snapshot of faculty thinking at a point in time, usually at the
validation stage of the programme. [more
>>]
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