Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Delivering Third Level Education Online: Discussion with Hibernia College and Schoolbag

2:25 pm

Photo of Averil PowerAveril Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. McMahon for his opening presentation. I apologise in advance, as I will need to leave this meeting shortly to attend another appointment. I met Mr. McMahon last year and discussed this in detail. It is a really interesting initiative for students to be able to have all that content there and also for parents. In this day and age we need to move away from homework journals and notes going home in the physical schoolbag. We need to give parents a way to check in with what their children are doing, particularly at primary level in an online space where they can do that from work and can check in and out at different times. I will not pose any questions because it would be rude to do so when I know I will not be here to hear the answers. I hope other members found the presentation interesting and I am sure they will have questions for him.

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