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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

One of the interesting outcomes of my recent course - Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 For us to be successful doing this, we first need to make sure that the system will work with whatever firewall restrictions exist. For example, in our course, we found that Yahoo Groups were restricted in some corporate environments.

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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

Background Over the past six weeks, I've been leading a course: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 This course is designed to teach how to design and build collaborative learning experiences using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 However, I found little value over using separate tools such as Yahoo Groups and a PBWiki.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 I discussed my experience from Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Spending or Wasting Time on Web 2.0 Use a Wiki instead of other approaches to creating web pages (only edited by ID/writers initially). Firewalls - You can certainly install tools behind the firewall.

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Cloud: the good, the bad and the better

eFront

Your cloud learning management system (LMS) is basically an application shared by thousands of other web users. And it’s far easier to lock it down, firewall it etc, according to the most secure specifications. One problem with Cloud based solutions though, is that the Cloud can be rather crowded. This has several downsides.

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