Cloud computing can help address challenges facing distance education by providing affordable computing resources and services. It allows accessing and using information and communication technologies through large data centers, reducing costs. Specific benefits include virtualization, device independence, elasticity, pay-per-use models, and reducing capital and energy expenses. However, concerns include security, reliability of internet access, and whether benefits are overhyped. Cloud services could help distance education programs by providing tools, infrastructure, and support services in a sustainable way.
Importance of cloud computing in education sector!Sushil Deshmukh
Check the requirements of the institutes as well as guarantee that quality training is given to each student after his participation, class exhibitions and so on can be adequately kept up without stressing for the framework issue. The cloud guarantees that students, instructors, personnel, guardians, and staff have access to basic data utilizing any gadget from anyplace. Both open and private foundations can utilize the cloud to convey better administrations, even as they work with fewer assets
Ten Key Reasons for Enterprise to Choose Cloud Computing
Cloud computing isn’t about doing anything new, instead it’s about applications that run in the web rather than your desktop. Some technology experts define CLOUD: Common, Location-independent, Online Utility provisioned on-Demand. As per my analysis, the key aspects for selecting Enterprise Cloud
Computing are:
Presentasi tentang pemanfaatan komputasi awan dalam dunia pendidikan. Dipresentasikan dalam National Seminar on Cloud Computing yang diselenggarakan oleh Politeknik Negeri Semarang (POLINES) bekerjasama dengan Microsoft User Group Indonesia (MUGI) Semarang
Importance of cloud computing in education sector!Sushil Deshmukh
Check the requirements of the institutes as well as guarantee that quality training is given to each student after his participation, class exhibitions and so on can be adequately kept up without stressing for the framework issue. The cloud guarantees that students, instructors, personnel, guardians, and staff have access to basic data utilizing any gadget from anyplace. Both open and private foundations can utilize the cloud to convey better administrations, even as they work with fewer assets
Ten Key Reasons for Enterprise to Choose Cloud Computing
Cloud computing isn’t about doing anything new, instead it’s about applications that run in the web rather than your desktop. Some technology experts define CLOUD: Common, Location-independent, Online Utility provisioned on-Demand. As per my analysis, the key aspects for selecting Enterprise Cloud
Computing are:
Presentasi tentang pemanfaatan komputasi awan dalam dunia pendidikan. Dipresentasikan dalam National Seminar on Cloud Computing yang diselenggarakan oleh Politeknik Negeri Semarang (POLINES) bekerjasama dengan Microsoft User Group Indonesia (MUGI) Semarang
Cloud Computing
1. Types of Cloud Computing
2. Service model of Clouds
3. Benefits of Cloud Computing
4. Examples of Cloud Computing
5. History of Cloud Computing
6. Disadvantages
The presentation discusses and introduces cloud computing - its history and present challenges.
It also discusses topical cloud-computing related events.
What impact does cloudcomputing have in educations 2011 v1 - publishMichael Wetering, van
English version of Cloud Computing in Education presentations. Please Note: some grahics and the notes below the sheet are in Dutch, haven't had time to translate but Google will certainly help you with that ;-)
Recap of MITRE Cloud Collaboration Sessions by Justin Brunelle of MITRE | Dec...Tim Harvey
Justin Brunelle of MITRE gave a recap of the MITRE Cloud Collaboration Sessions at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
Analyzing the Difference of Cluster, Grid, Utility & Cloud ComputingIOSRjournaljce
: Virtualization and cloud computing is creating a fundamental change in computer architecture,
software and tools development, in the way we store, distribute and consume information. In the recent era of
autonomic computing it comes the importance and need of basic concepts of having and sharing various
hardware and software and other resources & applications that can manage themself with high level of human
guidance. Virtualization or Autonomic computing is not a new to the world, but it developed rapidly with Cloud
computing. In this paper there give an overview of various types of computing. There will be discussion on
Cluster, Grid computing, Utility & Cloud Computing. Analysis architecture, differences between them,
characteristics , its working, advantages and disadvantages
Speaker Presention by Irena Bojanova of the University of Maryland University...Tim Harvey
Irena Bojanova, Professor & Program Director in Information and Technology Systems at the University of Maryland University College, spoke at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
cloud computing is used as the metaphor for "internet".It is the delivery of on demand access to computer resources such as servers, storage and applications.
Cloud Computing
1. Types of Cloud Computing
2. Service model of Clouds
3. Benefits of Cloud Computing
4. Examples of Cloud Computing
5. History of Cloud Computing
6. Disadvantages
The presentation discusses and introduces cloud computing - its history and present challenges.
It also discusses topical cloud-computing related events.
What impact does cloudcomputing have in educations 2011 v1 - publishMichael Wetering, van
English version of Cloud Computing in Education presentations. Please Note: some grahics and the notes below the sheet are in Dutch, haven't had time to translate but Google will certainly help you with that ;-)
Recap of MITRE Cloud Collaboration Sessions by Justin Brunelle of MITRE | Dec...Tim Harvey
Justin Brunelle of MITRE gave a recap of the MITRE Cloud Collaboration Sessions at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
Analyzing the Difference of Cluster, Grid, Utility & Cloud ComputingIOSRjournaljce
: Virtualization and cloud computing is creating a fundamental change in computer architecture,
software and tools development, in the way we store, distribute and consume information. In the recent era of
autonomic computing it comes the importance and need of basic concepts of having and sharing various
hardware and software and other resources & applications that can manage themself with high level of human
guidance. Virtualization or Autonomic computing is not a new to the world, but it developed rapidly with Cloud
computing. In this paper there give an overview of various types of computing. There will be discussion on
Cluster, Grid computing, Utility & Cloud Computing. Analysis architecture, differences between them,
characteristics , its working, advantages and disadvantages
Speaker Presention by Irena Bojanova of the University of Maryland University...Tim Harvey
Irena Bojanova, Professor & Program Director in Information and Technology Systems at the University of Maryland University College, spoke at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
cloud computing is used as the metaphor for "internet".It is the delivery of on demand access to computer resources such as servers, storage and applications.
OGF Cloud Standards: Current status and ongoing interoperability efforts wi...Florian Feldhaus
Presentation at Cloud Standards Customer Council Quarterly Meeting in Santa Clara, December 2011
http://www.cloudstandardscustomercouncil.org/121311/agenda.htm
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
This was presented at 2009 Web World Conference.
The presentation analyzes some trends of cloud computing, and prospects the futures of cloud computing.
Leadership and implementing the Cloud in education Karl Donert
A presentation at the third School on the Cloud summit, held in Brussels on 18 November 2016. The presentation is part of a workshop looking at leadership strategies and issues in implementing the CLoud in education and presents the Guidelines produced by the group, and is derived from project workshops and meetings of experts.
DLD 2013 Cloud Summit - Education in the Cloud - Nava Levy - Founder of...Nava Levy
In this presentation we will examine how Cloud & Big Data technologies together with Open Educational Resources and Open Source software can join together to help provide all kids with free access to high quality education, essentially helping democratize kids education.
A workshop at Online Educa Berlin 2014 based on the School on the Cloud Project (www.schoolonthecloud.eu). The activities can be found at: http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/iteacher
Education on the Cloud: Researching Student-Centred Cloud-Based Learning Pros...Karl Donert
School on the Cloud at the 2015 CELDA conference. Presentation of the paper on the School on the Cloud Network Project, presented at the CELDA conference, University of Maynooth, Ireland, 24-26 October 2015
Steve and I talk about the concept of PLEs, which includes physical and virtual spaces and tools. We also show how increasingly the institutional learning environment is opening up with project such as Bboogle and Google/Moodle integration. We final present our vision of how things may be and infact we can see some examples of such learning environments already (Sakai 3.0 OAE, Canvas) that can be classed a Open and Cloud based learning environments.
THE IMPACT OF EXISTING SOUTH AFRICAN ICT POLICIES AND REGULATORY LAWS ON CLOU...csandit
Cloud computing promises good opportunities for economies around the world, as it can help reduce capital expenditure and administration costs, and improve resource utilization. However there are challenges regarding the adoption of cloud computing, key amongst those are security and privacy, reliability and liability, access and usage restriction. Some of these challenges lead to a need for cloud computing policy so that they can be addressed. The purpose of this paper is
twofold. First is to discuss challenges that prompt a need for cloud computing policy. Secondly, is to look at South African ICT policies and regulatory laws in relation to the emergence of cloud computing. Since this is literature review paper, the data was collected mainly through literature reviews. The findings reveals that indeed cloud computing raises policy challenges that needs to be addressed by policy makers. A lack of policy that addresses cloud computing challenges can
negatively have an impact on areas such as security and privacy, competition, intellectual property and liability, consumer protection, cross border and juridical challenges.
Introduction to Cloud Computing and Cloud InfrastructureSANTHOSHKUMARKL1
Introduction, Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud computing, Cloud computing delivery models and services, Ethical issues, Cloud vulnerabilities, Cloud computing at Amazon, Cloud computing the Google perspective, Microsoft Windows Azure and online services, Open-source software platforms for private clouds.
Cloud Computing Research Paper: A Comprehensive Review And AnalysisWords Doctorate
Cloud computing use across industries has surged in Chicago, a center of innovation and commerce. Businesses of all sizes, from colossal banking institutions to rapidly expanding software startups, are using the scalability, agility, and affordability of cloud solutions to fuel their expansion. This study examines the state of cloud computing in Chicago today, focusing on its effects, patterns, and possible future developments.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Cloud Computing for Nonprofits - What's Microsoft Got?George Durham
Are you wondering what the cloud has to offer your organization, and why you should care? Or maybe you’re thinking about how to more seamlessly integrate your cloud with your existing on-premise infrastructure? Or how to take advantage of software donations you may already have from Microsoft while still exploring cloud computing?
Join us to learn more about Microsoft’s vision for Software plus Services, a view that recognizes we can’t always have our mission-critical applications and data dependent on Internet access. See what’s available today and what’s around the corner. From the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to Azure to Office 2010, Microsoft’s offerings have the potential to enable nonprofit organizations to spend less time and money running their IT infrastructure so they can spend more time delivering on their missions.
We’ll share examples from organizations already using Microsoft’s cloud services and tell you about donations and discount programs for nonprofits. Product demonstrations and overviews will include Microsoft’s Online Services (Exchange Online, Exchange Hosted Services, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, Dynamics CRM Online, Office Communications Online).
Netmagic talks about the increasing preference for hybrid cloud computing and why it is the future of IT. Know more information from Netmagicsolutions.com
Cloud computing is a way of sharing and using information and services online. This system uses remote servers to store information, which is accessible through the internet. This is an attractive alternative to traditional computer hardware, because cloud computing is less expensive and more accessible than owning your own hardware. Cloud computing is used in a variety of applications such as gaming, health care, and social media.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
1. Cloud Computing & Distance Education How cloud computing can sustain the promise of Distance Education Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Griff Richards, Rory McGreal, Brian Stewart EDEN June 2011 Dublin, Ireland
http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/elasticity.jpg http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/network_differences.jpg With desktop computing, each user is limited to the resource (processing, memory, and data storage) available in their personal computer. With cloud computing users can request as much computing power as they need.
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2006/11/ Since it is difficult to know where a virtual job will be processed (i.e. where the computer is physically located), data may easily cross international boundaries and suddenly be open to legal inspection in other countries - this would be a concern for example should Canadian data that is supposed be protected under Protection of Privacy Laws cross over to the USA and be subject to the Patriot Act. Haigh (2010) notes that Microsoft located its European email server farm in Dublin to avoid client concerns that their data would be open to the US government. Private, secure or mission critical data should not be processed in third party public cloud computing environments. Secure data could be processed in private clouds - for example Danek (2010) notes that the Canadian government forecasts setting up its own secure cloud computing environment to rationalize the use and cost of government ICT infrastructure across several departments. The second concern is the need for a fast and reliable internet connection . Cloud computing involves rapidly moving the data to be processed elsewhere, and then quickly returning the results. A slow or intermittent internet connection can interrupt the data flow and separate the user from the virtual machine. (One author of this report had to re-type several paragraphs when a communications interruption disconnected him from the word processing application in a cloud environment.) Cloud computing may initially not be a successful strategy for users in rural and remote areas until they can be assured continuous robust connectivity. The third concern is about switching costs . Of course legacy applications will need to be incorporated into the Cloud environment and incompatibility in design standards can pose significant hurdles and be quite costly when porting them to a cloud platform. Fortunately, as has been mentioned above, very few adult literacy organizations have investments in ICT. On the other hand, the costs of “lock in” cannot be avoided. The “Monkey and the Coconut” tale suggests you can catch a monkey by chaining a coconut to a tree and boring a hole just large enough for a monkey to reach his hand in and grab a fistful of honeyed rice. The closed fist is too large to go backwards through the hole. For the monkey to be free of the trap, he has to let go of his investment in the bait. The costs of “letting go” from a cloud service to an internal ICT infrastructure (or to another cloud) may be insurmountable - just as it is difficult for a homeowner to dispute rate hikes by the local electricity provider or get energy from another source. It is conceivable that in the future, the “free” Google and Microsoft academic and email services may come at a price to recover costs or for profit. Institutions that are “locked in” at that point may have to search for new resources or abandon their cloud services. The fourth concern is hype. Katz, Goldstein & Yanosky (2009) note that cloud computing seems to have caught the attention of almost every technology journalist to the point where it might be oversold. While the cloud has arrived for common services like email, for many other services the transition may take much longer. Much technical and policy work remains to be done by the adult literacy community to determine which applications can go to the cloud and which require a more conservative approach. Expectations will need to be adjusted to reflect realistic and achievable applications.
3 technical/marketing categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) where the expert user implements their own software to optimize use of the computing facility, Platform as a Service (PaaS) where the client customizes their application to run inside the cloud management software, and Software as a Service (SaaS) like Gmail where the user simply uses the software provided. This flexible approach means that an organization with special needs and the appropriate technical skills can build their own computing solution while customization and the use of generic software can meet most users’ requirements. As a rough analogy, if IaaS were renting a car at the airport, then PaaS would be hailing a taxi, and SaaS would be taking the bus. The service models provide options to suit user independence, expertise, budget and technical needs. Different services will have different benefits; the uptake rate will be influenced by the applicability within organizations. The models will need to evolve with requirements of the adult literacy provider and their needs for the cloud; executing working cloud models, and ensuring satisfactory quality of service, are essential.
http://jamscott.edublogs.org/files/2011/03/canada_map2-obn042.gif Adult Education and Literacy in Canada is also divided by different approaches and organizational types. In some regions it is community groups that deliver the bulk of adult literacy education; in other areas this is left to community colleges or partnerships of both. Funding comes from a mix of federal employment initiatives and provincial education programs. The funding is usually short term, and literacy providers spend a good deal of their time applying for the next grant or writing reports. The lack of a long term funding strategy makes it difficult to sustain programs and staff (Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2007). Adult Basic Education has been described as “the poorest cousin of the education system” (Horsman & Woodrow, 2009).
OECD (2002) identifies aboriginals and the working poor as the two populations least served by adult education programs. Many Aboriginals grow up in isolated areas and learn English from parents for whom English was an imperfectly learned second language. Many of the current generation also often fail to master their own native language and are caught between two cultures. The increasing urbanization of the aboriginal population brings many within reach of targeted literacy programs and there are a number of elearning approaches that are being initiated to reach those in remote areas. However, low literacy adults in isolated communities are among those with the least access to internet connectivity and computers.
http://www.newlanguage.ca/com001.jpg rapidly evolves, there are four basic patterns of using technology for literacy education: Learners receive individualized computer-based lessons from CD-ROMs or via web-sites. The web delivery is becoming more practical as it resolves the software distribution issues and learners can maintain records of their progress, however in areas with poor internet access it may be more practical to transfer the lessons to a CD-ROM or DVD. Drill and practice sessions are particularly effective for initial skills and knowledge including phonetics, building vocabulary, improving spelling and learning grammar. Audio-video materials such as podcasts can also help create a contextual awareness of language conventions. Literacy might borrow techniques from a number of very effective second language learning web-sites such as japanesepod101.com that match services to the motivation and budget of the learner. Free materials are very useful, but study texts, drills and maintenance of a vocabulary portfolio require a subscription. Tutor-mediated online conversation sessions are available for an additional fee. An unexpected boon has been the wealth of free informal learning materials available in video format on sites such as Youtube.com. Online course or workshops can be used to offer higher-order learning activities such as reading and discussing articles from newspapers with other learners in a text or voice chat. Cohort-paced online courses enroll learners in a group so they move through the learning activities about the same time and speed. The cohort reduces the feeling of isolation, learners can interact to discuss the course content and to give each other support. A course facilitator or instructor or tutor helps the group move through the materials in a timely fashion and provides answers to questions that may arise. Cohort-paced courses typically have lower drop-out rates than independent courses or self-study materials. In some instances cohorts may involve synchronous computer conferencing however the scheduling of such events can be complicated and they can make it difficult for learners who have other obligations like childcare, shift work or travel. Some community learning centres also equipped with broadband videoconference facilities that make it possible to bring small groups of learners together for work or study sessions, although the main use to date appears to be for the professional development of the tutors rather than for literacy instruction (iCCAN, 2010). Web searches, email, conferencing, writing, blogging and digital media projects are authentic everyday communications activities that provide rich opportunities for literacy instruction. This type of support is best provided in (or from) a learning centre where a staff member can be available to assist learners with the technology and with their literacy tasks. The completed artifacts can be copied into an e-portfolio to promote reflection on progress over time. There is no reason why the instructional support could not be given at a distance. This would benefit transient literacy learners – especially if they could access their personal files from any internet connection. Another area is the use of assistive technologies, for example, software that can help the learner by reading electronic text files out loud, or providing online dictionaries and other reference materials. Some assistive software that patches onto Office software and reads text as it is composed has been particularly useful for English Language Learners and learners with dyslexia (Kurzweil Educational Systems, 2005). Assistive software will become portable and personal as the number of smart phones that link to the internet increases and a wide variety of assistive applications emerge for that platform.
http://www.innersci.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/adult-literacy.jpg Despite this enormous potential, technology has not built a strong following among literacy providers. Holun & Gahala (2001) note that technology has a reputation as a “moving target “ – by the time a serious intervention can be developed and evaluated, the technology has moved along. Another reason is the lack of technology accessible to literacy learners and the relatively low number of studies examining the use of technology for literacy training. Finally Fahy & Twiss (2010) note that while adult literacy educators are beginning to use technology for their personal communications and professional development, few have adopted technology into their teaching practices. A greater use and benefit of instructional technology can be achieved if technology enhanced learning is made accessible in a cloud computing environment that encourages localization and sharing across the wider community.
akae.blogspot.com e.g. a tourist's digital snapshot of a street sign into text, to translate the text to the target language and to return an audio message to the user, perhaps with an accompanying map and directions back to the hotel. Such appliances are already being used and can be adapted for a wide variety of literacy
geekandpoke.typepad.com
a movement toward utility computing where large "server farms" located next to "green energy" sources and connected by low-power high bandwidth fiber optic