**** Posted on behalf of Robert Moores at Leeds Metropolitan University ****
I’m looking forward to sharing our experience of using Google Apps Education Edition at Leeds Met. On a broader note, the cloud and its impact on Leeds Met and the wider educational sector are starting to come on to our agenda.
There’s a feeling that [...]
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A recent ULCC survey (Collaboration & Cloud Computing in Education, 2009) showed that 95% of educational institutions rely on e-mail for collaboration. Ouch. So what’s wrong with this? Well, for a start nobody enjoys receiving large file attachments in their e-mail inbox, it’s a sure-fire way to make yourself unpopular with anyone working remotely and [...]
A colleague recently pointed me at Microsoft’s Community Clips. It is a community-driven website where users share training videos about Microsoft Office. Why, he wondered, would anyone want to freely document Microsoft’s profit-making software?
I was intrigued, so I had a poke around. It didn’t look like a vibrant healthy community to me. The most popular featured [...]
