Eduworks kick-off presentation: TCD

Trinity College Dublin: EDUWORKS Introduction

Prof Inmaculada Arnedillo-SánchezMacu.Arnedillo@scss@tcd.ie

• The University of Dublin, Trinity College was founded in 1592– It is a research lead university

• Ireland's premier university – Ranked 61st of the top 100 world universities by QS

World University Rankings 2013. – Ranked 129th of the top 200 world universities by

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013

• €65.2 million research income 2011/12– €109m in 2010/2011 (c.40% decrease)

• Three faculties:– Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; – Engineering, Mathematics and Science; – Health Sciences

• 16,860 students in 2011/12– 11,997 undergraduates (11,455 full-time / 570 part-time)– 4,863 postgraduates (3,216 full-time / 1,647 part-time)– 87% of our students are full-time– 28% of students are postgraduates

• There are over 97,277 alumni• 2,936 full-time staff

– 785 are academics– 1,496 are library, technical, administrative, & support services staff– 655 research staff

• The Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG)

“Researching the challenges of knowledge discovery, representation, engineering and application in next generation application

environments”

The application areas in which KDEG focuses its research on are:• Network & Telecoms Service Management• Technology Enhanced Learning• Autonomic Systems• User-Centred Systems & Personalisation• Collaborative Working & Online Communities• Pervasive Services, Context & Management

Mobile Learning

TxtIT: interaction loops

MobiQuest: Context & Collaboration

Mapping Challenge: Context & Collaboration

The mobileDNA: Scripted Collaborative Creativity

• TRUST-E: Teaching and Research in a Ubiquitous Secure Environments (2004-2007)– develop a ubiquitous learning platform accessible

by all modern and mobile technologies– adaptable communications infrastructure– facilitate meaningful communication between

users who may not have any prior knowledge of each other – i.e. the system must support a rich interpretation of the idea of trust in an ad-hoc mobile ubiquitous environment

• MOTILL: Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning: Best Practices (2009 – 2011)– to collecting, organizing and analyzing new

pedagogical approaches that exploit mobile technologies for LLL

– online scientific annotated review database– a methodological framework to analyze best

practices in this context– principal criteria for constructing the evaluation

grid

• Share.TEC: SHAring digital REsources in the Teaching Education Community (2008 – 2011)– Teacher Education (TE) is a strategic field for Europe’s

knowledge society and is undergoing rapid evolution– supports this process by creating a digital environment

that fosters access, retrieval and reuse of resources for TE across Europe

– Share.TEC system: an extendible federated aggregation of resources metadata migration process featuring semantic, linguistic and cultural interoperability

– Share.TEC adaptive to the specific needs the users & take into account their professional profiles through an ontology-based approach which captures individual differences

Identification and mapping of the lifelong learning transitions of mobile

learners : from trajectories to pathways

An analysis of lifelong learning transitions of mobile learners: Implications and principles for the design of technologies to support and facilitate lifelong

learning transitions