by Maxwell Cooter, Cloud Pro
Cloud computing offers an opportunity to change things. Students will no longer need be bound by proximity to education establishment. Students no longer need to rely on text books – which can be prohibitively expensive – but could have course material delivere online. Students will no longer be tied to a particular lecturer – or even university. As the MITx example shows, students at university could complement their notes by referring to the MIT material. There are opportunities for companies too. Instead of griping about skills shortages, here’s a chance to do something about it. The MITx initiative has shown the way (and there are sure to be other universities who will follow suit). There are hundreds of courses that are going to be available within the MITx initiative, companies who complain about skills shortages should be working with MIT to ascertain which parts of the MITx courses will be useful, complementing those courses with some more vendor-specific material – it should be possible to create customised courses without a student having to leave the workplace.
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