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School of Computing

Dr
Monica
Ward

Primary Department
School of Computing
Role
Deputy Head of School of Computing
Phone number: 01 700
8719
Website
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mward/
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
L1.05

Academic biography

Monica Ward is the Assistant Head for Teaching Excellence in the School of Computing. She has extensive experience in teaching and assessment a range of subjects from technical to transversal skills modules.  She is a pioneer of the use of technology in education and she advocates a co-creation and culturally-responsive approach with academics and students.  Her research interest include Computer Assisted Language Learning with a special focus on Less Commonly Taught Languages and Endangered Languages and Human Factors in Computing.

Research interests

I am interested in CALL, CAL and HCI.

CALL CALL for Minorty and Endangered LanguagesCALL for IrishCALL for NawatNLP techniques in CALL CALL normalisation Software Engineering and CALL CALL in non-traditional contextsCAL CAI/CAL (Computer Assisted Instruction/Computer Assisted Learning) CAL in the primary school context (maths)CAL in the university context Human Computer Interaction (HCI) HCI for children HCI in the Primary School User Modelling User-Centered Design Language, Socio-Cultural Factors and Learning Socio-cultural factors and Irish Socio-cultural factors and Endangered Languages