3 Ways that Web-Based Computing Will Change Colleges--And Challenge Them

Autor/in	Young, Jeffrey R.
Titel	3 Ways that Web-Based Computing Will Change Colleges--And Challenge Them
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 10, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Internet; Information Technology; Electronic Mail; Client Server Architecture; Computer Software Evaluation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Softwareanalyse
Abstract	Cloud computing, one of the latest technology buzzwords, is so hard to explain that Google drove a bus from campus to campus to walk students through the company's vision of it. After students sat through a demo at computers set up nearby, they boarded the bus and got free T-shirts. The bus only stopped at colleges that had already agreed to hand over their student e-mail service to Google, which offers to run it for colleges free (Microsoft has a similar service and made a similar road trip). The term "cloud computing" usually refers to programs that run over the Internet rather than locally on a user's computer. And Google officials explained that many students do not yet know about these new Web-based services. In this article, the author talks about cloud computing and how it has changed and continues to challenge higher education. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10