Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - Online@Illinois Springfield
Sunday, November 08, 2009
IBM helps students online, learning to put their heads in the cloud - Dave Rosenberg, CNet cnet.news com
IBM on Wednesday announced a program designed to help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and better take advantage of collaboration technology in their studies. The IBM Cloud Academy, announced at the Educause annual conference, includes a global roster of educational institutions as initial participants. Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. IBM will provide the cloud-based infrastructure for the program, with some basic collaboration tools available at the outset. IBM's LotusLive service provides the basis for the new offering. Participants will immediately be able to do some very basic tactical functions on the new system

 



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