FOTE & Cloud Computing
Tim Bush - ULCC
Overview
What is FOTE?
What’s this ‘Cloud’ thing all about?
Cloud Computing @ FOTE
Questions
What is FOTE?
Future of Technology in Education (FOTE)
Trends and Challenges facing the academic sector
Suppliers & Practitioners/Academics
Apple, Uni of Warwick, Google, MSFT & Ravensbourne College
FOTE 2009
Cloud Computing & Social Media
Royal Geographical Society
Sold out in 6 hours
What’s this ‘Cloud’ thing all about?
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing @ FOTE
The ‘Cloud’ Why called the cloud?
Delivery of applications online accessed via a web browser, while the software & data are stored on servers…
Gmail, Flickr, YouTube & Dropbox
Why?
Reduced cost of storage
Increasingly ubiquitous broadband
Mindset - its ok to use the web
The ‘Cloud’Enterprise/Education - ULCC (Moodle Service), LMN & Live@EDU
Benefits?
Flexible anytime anywhere working
Cost Savings
Continuous Improvements & Easy to Use
Makes Collaboration Easy! (Google Docs/Huddle)
Thank You
Twitter - www.twitter.com/tbush
Email - [email protected]
FOTE Twitter - www.twitter.com/FOTiE
questions?
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