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 2009http://icanhascheezburger.com/

FOTE 2009

Cloud Computing & Social Media

Royal Geographical Society

Twitter

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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 - t.bush@ulcc.ac.uk

FOTE Twitter - www.twitter.com/FOTiE

questions?