The student can execute sample queries from the lectures online at any time. The lab material offers more databases to query, e.g. those used in the course textbook. The lab material is divided into sessions of increasing difficulty. My aim is to provide an adaptive system for the practical part of the course, which considers characteristics of the student taking this course. The available material could be tailored towards the needs of students in these programmes.
Individual adaptation is also possible.
This project aims at an implementation of a support system, or support infrastructure, which helps the lecturer to run such an adaptive online course system. Techniques are sought to help the lecturer to provide the course material in a way such that user adaptation is possible. The evaluation component should support the lecturer in analysing the usage of the course system. In collaboration with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the School is building a Digital Library of manuscripts written in Old Irish through the ISOS project. Already, thousands of high quality images have been digitised, watermarked and made available online.