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I’m developing an e-learning blog specifically for learning professionals based in Ireland. I aim to use it as a platform to discuss Learning & Development Technology-related topics specific to practitioners based in the Emerald Isle.
The Great Recession notwithstanding, Ireland has a vibrant technology and knowledge-based industrial economy, and one of the domains [...]

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Everyone wants Flash on the iPhone. Today I had a moment of clarity. I realized there will never be the facility to view Flash-based content on my iPhone. Probably. And you know what? I’m cool with that.

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The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centers the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), [...]

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5,000 years ago, an extraordinary people lived in Ireland. They were farmers, hunters and builders. Without the benefit of the wheel, and with tools made only of flint, they carved their culture into history. Along the banks of the River Boyne, they built houses to their dead, repositories to their spirit – monuments to immortality.

Brú [...]

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I’ll start this post by issuing a mixed metaphor alert: today, we’re going to talk about an elephant in the room, which also happens to be an 800lb gorilla.
Intrigued? Now read on…
Back in February this year, I wrote the first of my occasional series on Recession and the challenge to e-learning; in that first [...]

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In my view, this investment will prove to be a game-changer. As it is, you could say that HMH are the only game in (e-learning) town – if they manage the innovations and outputs afforded by this R&D centre correctly, HMH will grow to become the Google of e-learning.

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I use the fantastic StatCounter.com Website and Blog Analytics service to measure my Elearning Curve Blog’s metrics; this is not just because they’re an Irish company, but also because they provide very comprehensive and granular logs and metrics.
Among other things it enables me to review are such statistics as

site usage
page loads
popularity of site [...]

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Among other things it allows me to see such statistics about site usage, page loads, popularity of site by location (for an English-language site, I’ve an unusually large group of readers in Brazil, for example: Olá! Como vai?), location of subscribers (hello also to my most Northerly ready in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)…

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Just a short post to big up my home town of Maynooth in Ireland, and the range of research being undertaken at my alma mater the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Current research includes:

facial expression software
AIDS research
Wi-Max networking
drug delivery technologies
Darfur peace talks
retail geotechnology

NUI Maynooth
Past academic research in Maynooth included the first description of Quaternions by [...]

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Just a short post to big up my home town of Maynooth in Ireland, and the range of research being undertaken at my alma mater the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Current research includes:

facial expression software
AIDS research
Wi-Max networking
drug delivery technologies
Darfur peace talks
retail geotechnology

NUI Maynooth
Past academic research in Maynooth included the first description of Quaternions by [...]

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