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Clear up the cloudiness about cloud computing

Jay Cross

Cloud computing. Some people think their credit card information and Amazon preferences are stored a mile overhead in a cumulus cloud. Just think of the cloud as a humongous computer that is connected to endless warehouses of rack-mounted servers spread around the globe. It’s not that mysterious. Is it safe?

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website.

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Using Open Badges to Recognize and Verify Learning

dVinci Interactive

Open Badges make sense because they take advantage of the dominant trends in the IT industry, including cloud computing, social media and big data. You can learn more about IBM’s growing use of the Open Badges from David Leaser’s presentation at the Training Industry Conference and Expo. David explains how they work.

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Top 10 Tools to Use in 2020 for Remote Teams

SkyPrep

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage platform. With its cloud computing technology, it is right at your fingertips to access, no matter where you may be. This means everything is hosted in the cloud. It is a free file storage and synchronization service.

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Learning Technologies 2010 – Recap

Upside Learning

What Cloud Computing means for Learning by Stuart Lauchlan. He talked about the benefits of cloud computing (cheaper, easier, more scalable) and some of the prominent successes (salesforce.com, Google, etc). Distributed (cloud) Computing. Here’s the presentation he shared at the conference: 6.

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eLearning surfs the cloud: how we got invited to VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2013

eFront

In layman’s terms, cloud computing is the technology which allows people like you and I to access an online service or product which resides on the internet. What constitutes Cloud Computing? Soon enough many more services would emphasize the use of the cloud later on. And it has! What does this mean?

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A Conversation with Reuben Tozman

Kapp Notes

Here is a summary of a great conversation I had with Reuben Tozman who I met one night at a conference (actually, we weren’t at the conference venue we were out getting a bite to eat and something to drink). Kapp: How is cloud computing and/or semantic web technologies impacting learning?