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John Evans

Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2015: All about the cloud - TechRepublic - 4 views

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    "Gartner analysts suggest you keep a close eye on the items listed in its latest trend report. Michael Kassner examines the technologies on the list and finds a common thread: cloud. "
John Evans

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  • According to William Rust, research director for the IT research and consulting firm Gartner, there is a new digital divide occurring in schools. Whereas this divide used to refer to whether or not students had access to technology, now it concerns whether schools are using technology effectively to achieve results.
  • Regarding the changing nature of learners, Gartner believes that so-called "digital natives" will demand, and need, new types of learning experiences.
  • "The biggest shift we're seeing right now is student preference shifting from print to digital resources," Rust noted. "It's all about the web."
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  • And technology's broad accessibility, Gartner believes, is changing the paradigm for how students receive instruction. Like the growing trend of telecommuting to work, Rust predicted, virtual and distance education soon will trump the delivery of instruction via brick-and-mortar classrooms.
Phil Taylor

Will the iPad dominate education? - Somerville Group, Peter Kazacos, Network Neighborho... - 2 views

  • the media tablet can deliver if schools build them into a larger ecosystem emerging around digital textbooks," Gartner analyst, C.G. Lee, noted in the report Market Insight: Media Tablets to Spur Computer-Aided Curriculums in Schools in Asia-Pacific.
John Evans

Gartner Pushes Corporations to Adopt iPad| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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Nik Peachey

Development - Is the 140 character 'micro interaction' enough? | Delta Publishing - Eng... - 2 views

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    Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".
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