2. Overview What is FOTE? What’s this ‘Cloud’ thing all about? Cloud Computing @ FOTE Questions
3. 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
9. 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
10. 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)