{"id":8395,"date":"2012-10-13T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2012-10-13T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T17:26:18","slug":"week-6-activity-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/10\/13\/week-6-activity-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6, Activity #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Education&#8217;s adoption of cloud based services is inevitable.\u00a0 As mentioned in this week&#8217;s OER: they reduce the cost for schools, IT departments, and users.\u00a0 The concern that many people will continue to have is in the protection and privacy of the individual users and the intellectual property created and stored.\u00a0 Once people become more comfortable with their information and ideas floating around out there cloud services will become more common place.\u00a0 Others may not be willing to adopt these strategies, but as a business Education will have to see that cloud computing saves them money, creates better opportunities for communication, improves collaboration, and communities of learners are more engaged.\u00a0 Open Source software and courses will likely be the next big wave in education.\u00a0 It may take some time to adopt it fully throughout education circles but the tsunami is coming and decision makers should decide if they want to ride the wave or be over-powered by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Education&#8217;s adoption of cloud based services is inevitable.\u00a0 As mentioned in this week&#8217;s OER: they reduce the cost for schools, IT departments, and users.\u00a0 The concern that many people will continue to have is in the protection and privacy of the individual users and the intellectual property created and stored.\u00a0 Once people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[517342],"tags":[425,53,51],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-06","tag-cloud","tag-oer","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}