Larry Mahony

E-learning research

February 6th, 2007

I got a chance to go down to DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute) in Galway yesterday to check on some e-learning research they’re carrying out. DERI is a worlwide collaboration between many institutes, of which Galway is the Irish base, whose main interest is the use of semantics and the semantic web. They’re doing a lot of interesting work but with this type of research you need keep a close eye on what’s been done to ensure it meets your business requirements and that it will be applicable in the corporate world.

Research and Development has quite often been overlooked in Irish based IT work but in recent times the government have pledged financial investment. R&D is critical to the long term success and growth of IT companies but too often it’s an afterthought or sidetrack from the day to day work. All about return on investment I suppose!

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