Monday, July 13, 2009

Cloud Technologies for Educaton: A Preamble

Periodically , technological advances have changed the pace and shape of every human endeavor. Education is no exception. The process of Education has been radically affected and hugely benefited by continuously changing technological advances. For instance, the invention of printing press and the consequent ability to produce books in large numbers created new way of organizing education and determined the structure of university. The ability of network technologies to collect data from anywhere on the net and their ability to deliver the same anywhere on the network has tremendous potential in augmenting the educational or teaching process.Efforts by various agencies both business and otherwise have created wealth of resources on the web that can be exploited for transforming teaching process. Today web has become a blackboard. Web's basic value proposition is connectivity and content, Both of these values have direct implications and immediate uses in teaching. Connectivity allows a teacher to get connected to and retain connections with learners beyond the walls for traditional class rooms. Content of web has an enriching impact and true potential for transforming entire teaching experience. Content on the web can used directly, customised to meet one's class needs or can be augmented. In effect we have today all the resources on the web for successful practice of web-based teaching of e-learning. In this blog paper we present our experience in using cloud Technologies technologies in teaching.

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