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Saturday, October 23, 2004
No room for Irish language in e-learning - Ciaran Buckley, Electric News
Riverdeep's chief executive says that the Irish government needs to plan its e-learning strategy and warned that Irish Gaelic may be left out in the cold. Barry O'Callaghan made his comments while addressing the TIF Telecommunications for Broadband conference in University College Dublin's O'Reilly Hall. The conference was focused on the implications of broadband for Ireland's 4,100 schools. Riverdeep, which was set up in Dublin in 1995 to develop e-learning for schools, is the biggest seller of e-learning software in the United States. However, the company sells very little in the Irish market, where the government has yet to formulate an e-learning policy. When outlining the potential difficulty in rolling out e-learning in the Irish market O'Callaghan said that any requirement to localise e-learning courseware into Irish-Gaelic could be prohibitively expensive.
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