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Saturday, October 23, 2004
E-learning is paying off, Intel exec says - Ciaran Buckley, Electric News
The Skoool.ie Web portal was set up by Intel, the Irish Times and Allied Irish Bank to provide additional academic resources to Irish schoolchildren. Not only is the Web site busiest outside of school hours, but weekend traffic on the site is comparable to traffic during the week. "The proportion of Web site users accessing rich media content is now 40 percent, up from 20 percent in 2003," said Jim Kelly, strategic programme manager at Intel, who was speaking at TIF's Telecommunications for Education conference in University College Dublin's O'Reilly Hall on Thursday. "We believe that this increase is as a result of the increasing availability of broadband."
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