Flexible learning is now
May 24, 2010 by dermot · Leave a Comment
Yesterday’s Sunday Business Post ran a story I wrote about Bluebrick.ie, a new website which helps candidates find out about the flexible learning options on offer across Ireland’s 14 institutes of technology. The site, and the courses behind it, are being promoted by Dr Richard Thorn, director of flexible learning at Institute of Technology Ireland.
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One of the more interesting features about BlueBrick.ie is the way the site can intelligently guide users towards courses or subjects, which they might not have thought of before.
‘‘The site makes suggestions of other courses or areas based on what you have searched for already, similar to sites like Amazon and Expedia,” Thorn said. ‘‘If you are looking at a green energy course, it will remember what other things people who looked at green energy before also looked at, and prompt you to look at those courses too. For example, someone with an electrical installation qualification might be pointed towards courses around sustainable energy.”
The full text of the article, including some very interesting stuff about how the ITs are focusing more now on lifelong learning than school-leavers, and attempts to bring in flexible, modularised learning that would allow students to pick subjects from any course in any IT, is through here on the SBPost website.
Or you could go straight to the BlueBrick.ie website itself I guess.
