Damian T. Gordon

Technological University Dublin | TU Dublin · School of Computing

This paper addresses issues associated with the development of eLearning software systems. The development of software systems in general is a highly complex process, and a number of methodologies and models have been developed to help address some of these complexities. Generally the first stage in most development processes is the gathering of re...

This paper represents a sequel to the 2008 ICITST Conference paper “Hackers and Hollywood: Considering Filmic Cyberthreats in Security Risk Analysis”. That paper looked at how hackers are represented in the movies and how that representation may impact a range of fields, including; in the education of computer students, organisational computer secu...

Increasingly movies are being produced which feature plots that incorporate elements of computer security and hacking, and cumulatively these movies are creating a public perception as to the nature of computer security. This research examines movies that feature hackers (and hacking) to identify if any common themes emerge from these movies in the...

The Emersion education model was designed by embracing experience from industry and academia in Ireland, the UK and China. A significant part of the model is a curriculum for an honours degree programme in computer science to be delivered in the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Elements of the curriculum are strongly aligned in three ways: co...

China currently has one of the world's fastest growing software industries. However the demand for skilled software engineers is currently outstripping supply. Educational institutes are the primary provider of software engineers. Not only can China's educational institutes not meet the demands of software engineers in terms of quantity, the qualit...

At its meeting in Lisbon in March 2000, the EU council stated that the EU "must become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion". To achieve this ministers of education agreed on three major goals to be achieved by 2010: to impr...

Universal Design is an approach to design which insists upon the consideration of users with diverse levels of ability. Rather than representing a specialist approach to design, it is recognised that Universal Design results in a better design for all. Furthermore, by isolating design for disability as an independent topic in education, or ignoring...

The controversy over learning style (the unique way of thinking and reasoning that characterises an individual learner) as to whether or not it is a stable cognitive factor is one which has raged on for a number of years, and has been reinvigorated recently with the advent of easy- to-use courseware development tools and the consequent development...

LED displays produce anomalous spatio-temporal (moving) illusory contours involving the apparent (perceived) shift in the position of physical stimuli and resulting in an apparent tilt of the displayed pattern. This illusion may be explained by a spatio-temporal grouping which is dependent on the persistence of vision associated with illusory conto...