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Monday, November 08, 2004
Irish universities cannot ignore global e-learning - Brian Skelly, Silicon Republic
Despite the many challenges of implementing an effective e-learning system, Irish universities that ignore this educational trend risk getting left behind by the legion of online universities springing up around the world, a US e-learning guru told an e-learning symposium at Dublin City University yesterday. At the event organised by Universities Ireland, the all-Ireland representative association for the university sector, Dr Andy DiPaulo, executive director of the Stanford Centre for Professional Development at Stanford University, noted that the internet had transformed the learning experience forever. “In the industrial age we went to school; in the communications age the school comes to us.” He added that universities ignored this trend at their peril. “The danger is if you don’t engage in e-learning, what are the consequences of that decision?”
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