Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Mathematics Learning Support: Irish Mathematics Learning Support Network

2:00 pm

Dr. Eabhnat Ní Fhloinn:

I might take the first question about ICT. We have seen that when students are nervous about mathematics, they really want to talk to a person. We found that no matter what kind of ICT resources we put in, part-time students engage a lot with ICT resources because they are usually trying to hold down a job and study in the evening and they do not have time to come into the university apart from that so they do use ICT resources. The universities or institutes of technology that have more part-time evening courses will definitely see more ICT usage but we found that apart from that, students, by and large, want to come in and sit down with a person.

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