The presentation for the Medical Education Conference under Collaborative Project for Increase Production of Rural Doctor, CPIRD 2012. Dusit Island Resort, Chaing Rai, Thailand, 21 September 2012

1. Cutting Edge Innovations
in education
Denpong Soodphakdee, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic and Information Technology
KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY

2. What I will cover ?
● Top technologies
● What is cloud and online services?
● How should we do it?
● Khon Kaen University ICT vision
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3. How New Generation Learns
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13. Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
1. Cloud Computing
2. Mobile Applications and Media Tablets
3. Social Communications and Collaboration
4. Video
5. Next Generation Analytics
6. Social Analytics
7. Context-Aware Computing
8. Storage Class Memory
9. Ubiquitous Computing
10.Fabric-Based Infrastructure and Computers
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14. Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
1. Media Tablets and Beyond
2. Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces
3. Contextual and Social User Experience
4. Internet of Things
5. App Stores and Marketplaces
6. Next-Generation Analytics
7. Big Data
8. In-Memory Computing
9. Extreme Low-Energy Servers
10.Cloud Computing
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15. Smart Phones
Smart phone user in Thailand is 18% of all mobile phone and
expected to grow to 60 – 65% by 2015 [Frost & Sullivan]
The smart phone market grow by 31.7-38.8% in 2011 with the
total market value of 32.789-34.544 billion baht. [KResearch]
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16. Tablet Market in Thailand in 2012
● Desktop PC : 1.2 million units
● Notebook : 2.25 million units
● Tablet : 2.4 million units
Note: Only 480,000 units sold in 2011
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17. SOCIAL MEDIA
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19. How Doctors Use Social Media & Technology to
Improve Their Medical Practice
● Doctors with a Smart phone
● Ensuring Secure Data Transfers
● Doctor-Patient Cyber Relationships
● Social Media and Increased Efficiency
● Social Media to Increase Information Sharing
● Social Media to Aid in Healthcare Hiring
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20. "If we teach today as we
taught yesterday, we rob
our children of tomorrow."
John Dewey
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21. "Do not confine your children
to your own learning, for they
were born in another time."
Chinese Proverb
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22. The principle goal of
education is to create
men and woman who
are capable of doing new
things, not simply
repeating what other
generations have done'.
Jean Piaget
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23. Online Services & Web 2.0 Cloud Computing
● Services provided over ● Cloud computing is a
the Internet which are method by which
not hosted by their applications and data
institution are hosted and
● Web 2.0 can be delivered
regarded as a
particular type of
application
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24. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the use
of computing resources
(hardware and software)
that are delivered as a
service over a network
(typically the Internet)
--- wikipedia
Cloud computing is the
access to computers and
their functionality via the
Internet or a local area
network
---- eucalyptus
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25. Classification of Clouds
● Public
● Private
● Hybrid
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26. Cloud Service Styles
● Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS)
● Platform as a service
(PaaS)
● Software as a service
(SaaS)
Ref: wikipedia
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27. Cloud Readiness Index 2011
Ref: asia cloud computing association
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28. Cloud Readiness Index 2011 – highlight
Ref: asia cloud computing association
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29. Cloud Readiness Index 2011 – highlight
Ref: asia cloud computing association
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30. Benefit of Cloud Computing in Education
● Economies
● Elasticity
● Enhance Availability
● Lower Environmental Impact
● Concentration on Core Business
● End User Satisfaction
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31. Simple Move to Cloud Services
Outsourcing Student Email with extras
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32. Google Apps for Education
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33. Microsoft Office 365
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34. Guideline for Selection and
Deployment of Cloud Services
● User experience and accessibility
● Overall user experience
● Web accessibility guidelines and standards
● Contract
● The initial term of the contract, penalties for early withdrawal,
costs and future potential costs
● Support
● Costs
● Services cost appears minimal or even non-existent
● Change management
● Technical integration
● Staffi an institutional helpdesk
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Ref: UNESCO
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35. KKU Collaboration Tools for Students
Google Apps & Office 365
Reg. DB (Oracle) kkumail.com
Redir. login
Login
SSO - SAML
Account
std-acct.kku.ac.th
LDAP - login
- logout
LDAP mod. - e-mail chooser
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36. Get Ready for On-Premise Cloud
● Immediate access to computing
● Resources hosted within an organization's
infrastructure
● Behind the organization's firewall
● Higher degree of security over sensitive code
and data
● Consolidate and optimize the performance of
physical hardware through virtualization
● Improve data center efficiency
● Reducing operational expense
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38. Online Services
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39. Online Services
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40. Integration to Online Services
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41. Moodle 2.0 Repositories
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43. Online Collaboration Tools
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44. Google+ Hangout On Air
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46. Enjoy Online...
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47. Challenges
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48. Reach me...
denpong@kku.ac.th
http://slideshare.net/denpong
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