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

2:45 pm

Mr. Philip O'Callaghan:

We believe that Schoolbag provides the infrastructure because all the resources can be centrally located. Therefore, if the school creates a short course on a particular topic, those resources can be centrally located within Schoolbag and any classes doing those short courses can access them. It certainly provides a framework to help with the assessment and the e-portfolio area. It provides a framework for the communication between teacher, student and the home. It provides a framework for that early intervention, which is very important, and it provides a framework for the sharing of resources between teachers within a school, teachers cross-schools and between the teacher and the student.