Personalisation of a U-Learning Environment for Third Level Education

The Construction of a Personalised and Social U-Learning Environment for Third Level Education

This paper presents a ubiquitous learning (u-learning) system, the “Personalised Ubiquitous Learning Platform” (PULP), which integrates collaborative and social learning for the enhancement of the third level educational learning experience. University College Dublin (UCD) provides its students with managed learning environments (MLEs) and adaptive learning via UCD Horizon which enables student...

Building an Ubiquitous and Social Learning Environment for Third Level Education

This paper presents an ubiquitous learning system, the “Personalised Ubiquitous Learning Platform” (PULP), which integrates collaborative and social learning for the enhancement of the third level education learning experience. University College Dublin (UCD) provides its students with managed learning environments (MLEs) and adaptive learning via UCD Horizon which enables students to take diff...

Learning preferences for personalisation in a pervasive environment

Third-level nurse education: learning from the Irish experience.

Nursing and nurse education is rapidly changing internationally. The profession and the different branches of practice have moved in a relatively short period of time from a 'handmaiden' status to have an evolving professional standing as equal members of interdisciplinary teams. This has coincided with the evolving trend to locate nurse training programmes within the higher education sector. D...

U-als: a Ubiquitous Learning Environment

The diffusion of the use of the learning virtual environments presents a great potential for the development of an application which meet the necessities in the education area. In view of the importance of a more dynamic application and that can adapt itself continuously to the students’ necessities, the “U-ALS” (Ubiquitous Adapted Learning System) was proposed and developed. This system was bu...