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Serious Games in Marketing Education: Developing Higher Order Cognitive Skills through collaboration in a Simulation Game,
(2015)This study set out to explore the use of an online resource to simulate real-world marketing principles, designed as a serious game, for students studying an undergraduate introductory marketing module. The simulation game ... -
Age and sex differences in prevalence and clinical correlates of depression: first results from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.
(2013)OBJECTIVE: The risk of depression is increased by physical illness; however, the nature of this relationship is complex and unclear. Here, we explore the prevalence and clinical correlates of depression, with particular ... -
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Experiences of workplace bullying among non-traditional students: Cause for concern for both business and education?
(2014)Workplace bullying (WPB) has been identified as an insidious aspect of the contemporary work environment (Einarsen, Höel, Zapf, & Cooper, 2003). The present study had three related aims (i) to determine current and prior ... -
Disablist bullying: What student teachers in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland don t know and the implications for teacher education
(2014)This study explored the knowledge, experience, and confidence of student teachers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in relation to disablist bullying. Adopting a mixed methodological approach of four focus ... -
Grieving students: The response and support of educators in Irish schools
(2014)It is estimated that bereavement has affected between 36,000 and 60,000 young people in Ireland. Little academic research has been conducted to ascertain the response of Irish schools to bereavement and grief support. ... -
Piloting a Model for Coteaching
(2014)This paper presents a study which pil ots a model for coteaching based on Vygotsky’s zone of proxima l development (ZPD) and other sociocultural theoretical constructs. Coteaching, during which coteachers coplan, ... -
Participatory Practices in Open Source Educational Software - The Case of the Moodle Bug Tracker Community
The Moodle bug tracker is a boundary object that faces software developers who write and maintain Moodle’s code whilst simultaneously exposing an interface to a much wider public world of ordinary Moodle users. Bugs can ... -
Digital Natives or Digitally Naive? E-professionalism and Ethical Dilemmas Among Newly Graduated Teachers and Social Workers in Ireland
(2014)n a study which examined how newly qualified teachers and social workers conceptualize and incorporate asynchronous technologies in their professional and private spheres, variation in active participation on social media ...