Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: The Cloud's Impact on Learning

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

Michelle  Lentz  michelle@write-­‐tech.com  

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A  Li:le  About  Me  …  

• Instructional Designer, Trainer, Consultant • Wine blogger and columnist • Everything else? http://about.me/michelle.lentz

Flashing  Forward  

If  computers  of  the  kind  I  have  advocated  become  the  computers  of  the  future,  then  compu+ng  may  someday  be  organized  as  a  public  u+lity  just  as  the  telephone  system  is  a  public  u9lity...  -­‐  John  McCarthy,  MIT  Centennial,  1961  

What  is  this  Cloud?  

What  is  Cloud  CompuNng?  via flickr user LauraJo

Reality:    What  the  Cloud  Really  Looks  Like  

Reality:    What  the  Cloud  Really  Looks  Like  

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Everything  Talks  to  the  Cloud  Via Infreemation

The  Cloud  Talks  to  Everything  via mobileme

You’re  Already  Using  the  Cloud  

Cloud  Advantages  

•   Accessibility  (any  Nme,  any  place)  •   PlaZorm  independent!  •   Cost  effecNve,  especially  when  looking  at  applicaNons  •   Environmentally  friendly  •   Freedom  from  desktop  applicaNons  •   Low  maintenance  /  smaller  on-­‐site  IT  staff  •   CollaboraNon  

Cloud  Disadvantages  

•   Privacy?  •   Security?  •   Less  control  of  data  •   Support  may  not  be  as  responsive  as  on-­‐site  IT  crew  •   New  technology  /  corporate  culture  •   Providers  or  apps  could  be  deadpooled  •   Relying  on  the  Internet  

Cross-­‐FuncNonal  Impact  for  Learning  

•  Content  elasNcity  • Mobile  •  Business  intelligence  

ConsideraNons  for  Learning  

•  PracNcal  and  social  •  Real-­‐Nme  updaNng  •  AuthenNc  two-­‐way  conversaNons  •  Learning  opportuniNes  for  moments  of  need*  

•  Decreased  costs      

Content  Clouds  &  Self  CuraNon  Image courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts

CuraNon  Tools  Mindmap:    h:p://www.mindmeister.com/55395228/content-­‐curaNon-­‐tools-­‐the-­‐newsmaster-­‐toolkit-­‐by-­‐robin-­‐good-­‐2012    

Authoring  in  the  Cloud  

Guess  what  else  is  in  the  cloud?    

LMS:  Where  is  Your  Content?    

Hosted  (Cloud)    vs    

HosNng  (Enterprise)  

Mobile  and  the  Learning  Experience:  Apps!  

Free  Your  Learning  h:p://www.scorm.com/Nncan  h:p://Nncanapi.com/2012/07/25/Nn-­‐can-­‐in-­‐the-­‐trenches/    

My  Thanks!  

•  Thank  you  for  having  me!  •  Thanks  to  Clarity  Consultants  for  sponsoring  this  and  gekng  me  to  NYC!  

Contact  

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