Lessons Learned From Integrating Industry and Exposing Enterprises to Computing Science Students

Graduates face a myriad of options upon completing their degree, including starting their own venture. Integrating industry and exposing enterprises to students as part of their curriculum not only provides opportunities for students, but enterprises as well. For students, they can apply their knowledge to real-world briefs in an attempt to win the business of a much larger corporation. For enterprises, they can identify strong potential future employees or investment opportunities. However, while opportunities exist for both students and existing enterprises, real challenges remain for the facilitating higher education institution. The talk will cover experiences of integrating industry into postgraduate courses and the lessons learned from facilitating the interaction between students and industry

Lessons Learned From Integrating Industry and Exposing Enterprises to Computing Science Students

Graduates face a myriad of options upon completing their degree, including starting their own venture. Integrating industry and exposing enterprises to students as part of their curriculum not only provides opportunities for students, but enterprises as well. For students, they can apply their knowledge to real-world briefs in an attempt to win the business of a much larger corporation. For enterprises, they can identify strong potential future employees or investment opportunities. However, while opportunities exist for both students and existing enterprises, real challenges remain for the facilitating higher education institution. The talk will cover experiences of integrating industry into postgraduate courses and the lessons learned from facilitating the interaction between students and industry

Mathematics education issues in Ireland: special reference to appraisal

As we approach the end of the 1980s, many issues face mathematics educators in the shadow of general unemployment and with inadequate resources. The teaching of mathematics, for example, is becoming increasingly complex and demanding. It is being greatly affected by increased demands for accountability from society and changing pedagogical possibilities with the onslaught of the microcomputer. The focus of this study is on the identification, elaboration and analysis of key issues in mathematics education in Ireland, on which decisions will have to be made and to suggest possible responses together with probable implications. Many of these issues are not specific to Ireland. This study offers mathematics teachers, schools and ministries of education in other countries a useful rationale on key issues within which further debate and critical evaluation can take place in an organized fashion. [Continues.

Scaffolding Video Assignments in Cyber Security

This talk reflects on two cases of introducing assignments into two different computing courses related to cyber security that required students to create and submit videos. On reflection, analysis of the use of such assignments suggests that student success could be further improved by considering appropriate scaffolding not just within the courses themselves, but across degree programmes. The analysis led us to draw some practical recommendations that could be used to improve future learning designs