Research was conducted on the impact of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on the information seeking and literacy of veterinary students at University College Dublin. Data was collected using both quantitative and qualitative ...
This paper describes 2 case studies where problem based learning has been introduced to undergraduate civil engineering students in University College Dublin. Problem based learning has recently been put in place in the ...
This article discusses how the trend towards
new approaches in teaching and learning such as
problem-based learning are radically impacting
on librarians.
This paper describes the use of project-based learning to teach design skills to civil engineering students at University College Dublin (UCD). The paper first considers the development of problem-based leaning (PBL) as a ...
This paper was conceived in response to an identified need for new PBL practitioners to be able to access a range of sample problems that would help them develop PBL within their own disciplines, particularly when outside ...
Hyde, Abbey(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009-02-13)
A range of disciplines, including those in health sciences, have witnessed an increasing emphasis on the discourse of 'evidence-based' practice in professional learning settings, which has a tendency to be viewed as ...
The last ten years has seen the introduction and rapid growth of a market in weather derivatives, financial instruments whose payoffs are determined by the outcome of an underlying weather metric. These instruments allow ...
This chapter explores the issue of overfitting in grammar-based Genetic Programming. Tools such as Genetic Programming are well suited to problems in finance where we seek to learn or induce a model from data. Models that ...
Differences between early and late Irish-immersion secondary school students are examined, not only in terms of academic outcome and target language ability, but also in terms of attitudes to learning the target language. ...