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With the evolving IoT, individuals and companies need to up their security game. More tech connected to the web means more play room for hackers.

This article talks about learning analytics being used in schools and by students and how it is just the "natural progression" of things that will happen eventually. It shows that the uses of learning analytics are going to become common place one day and everyone will be using them.

This article is about whether or not is is entirely ethic for university professors to be collecting as much data on students as they so. This shows a view from the other side about the things that could be considered bad but only if taken wrong.

Many books are online now and the many contributors to make it happen. Lists the types of things that are open

This is a great source of how book digitalization is advancing.

Its about the books that open content will include.

An example of a school shifting away from class sets of hard copies.

Basically what the title says: 7 things to know before using open content resources

This article contains a section that specifically discusses geopolitics. This article, similar to many others found, says that overseas manufacturing facilities could become obsolete, bringing production back to countries that tend to import many goods. Also, 3D printing would allow for less developed countries to obtain goods that are currently not available to them.

This is a really insightful article Josh. I learned many things about 3D printing that I didn't know before.

This is a link that can clarify some of your doubts.

3D printers give off unhealthy air emissions similar to burning a cigarette or cooking on a gas or electric stove.

Creating new 3D printers that could print things 500 times faster than the normal 4-6 hour process of 3D printing

This article details how a group of people using cloud computing to help countries with limited resources research things.

These virtual labs are prepared to "create a new point of view and bring about a new dimension to the lesson." After doing research they have found that these virtual labs are just as effective as doing the real thing and not as rough on the environment. Students reported that they enjoyed this new way of learning and helps in different ways.

I found it interesting to read about the two being compared. Of course there are always going to be benefits to participating in the traditional lab, new advances in technology have made it easy to replicate doing the same thing without some extra costs. In a virtual lab there is no set up or cleaning up after, students can repeat the experiment more than one time, and it is a lot more cost effective. These are just a few topics that the site focusses on that I found useful.

This is telling the change in technology and the development of online use. It tells that there are still changes needed to progress online cloud computing, but it is a very handy thing for people.

This is a very useful .pdf to clarify your doubts about learning analytics. It explains many important things.

It will explain you the basic things of the open content alliance, and what are thier objectives, and who create it.

iPads could help you leave a smaller carbon footprint. The production of an iPad mini has the smallest amount of carbon emission when compared to an iPad 4, air 13", pro 15", iMac 27", and Mac Pro. Also, iPad minis use much less electricity to run. Also, small tablets can help to reduce your media footprint if you do things like download books onto your iPad instead of having a hard copy.