There are several cloud computing services available today from a few vendors that can help you immediately take advantage of online collaboration using websites, email, spreadsheets, and word processing documents, as well as other capabilities. Fees usually range from little or no cost to about $50 per person per year, for simple hosted applications, depending on the type of organization and the total number of users. Below are some examples of the various services that are available, and which best serve a certain type of organization.
Mobile learning (m-learning) offers possibilities for delivering information that guides, supports, and coaches employees from a smartphone, iPad, or other mobile device throughout the course of their work day. Does this mean that you should rush to implement your next training or education program as m-learning? Maybe, but it depends on the project. Before investing heavily in a mobile learning platform, it’s important to have a thorough understanding of your business needs, and how appropriately they align with the benefits, constraints, and requirements of a mobile strategy. Remember that m-learning is a delivery mechanism for information. It’s not a learning solution in and of itself. A careful review of the goals, characteristics, and context of your learning need will help you make a wise decision.
We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” That is, while universities have posted their syllabi, handouts, and quizzes online, there has not been — until recently — much “Web 2.0″ OCW resources — little opportunity for interaction and engagement with the material. But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:
Meet DEviaNT, a new technology or “robot” with the ability to tell the joke, “that’s what she said.” That means the robot is able to listen to a sentence and “understand” that replying “that’s what she said,” would make people laugh. According to its developers, 72% of the time, DEviaNT (Double Entendre via NounTransfer) gets it right, and “says” “that’s what she said” after a serious sentence, and it’s hilarious. The sexual joke-making computer program is a hit. (A full explanation of what DEviaNT does is embedded below.) The developers’ application of voice-recognition technology might seem juvenile (and awesome and hilarious) but, the technology might be a break though, and if so, it’s actually pretty significant. It could mean that computers will someday be able to understand humor — one of the abilities thought to be unique to humans.
Salman Khan from California agreed to tutor his younger cousin, Nadia, in maths remotely using tablet technology. “I thought these video lessons would be a good supplement. Nadia started improving significantly and more family wanted to see them, so I put them on YouTube. Others started to randomly access them and it just went from there.” says Khan. Advertisement: Story continues below Five years, 2000 video lessons, and 41 million views on YouTube later, Khan is on target for his mission of “providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere” – with one faculty member.
No comments:
Post a Comment