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Adam Porter, Professor in the Deptartment of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, spoke at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit on Dec. 17, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
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Mobile Cloud
is Changing Training & Education
Adam PorterUMD
Mobile Cloud
Computing
Trends in Education
MOOC
assivepennlineourses
Highly scalable, cloud-based, interactive learning systems
Video lectures / tutorialsIn-video questionsOnline quizzesHands-on assignments
https://www.coursera.org/
course/android
70K+ students from all over the world
Part of a multi-course sequence taught with Vanderbilt University
15M+ students
Wrote 500B LOC
Learning never sleeps
Everyone will be a teacher and a student
What you know and can show, more important than where you learned it
Content is still king, but lessons are becoming commoditized
Hands-on experiences are the real added value
It’s a buyer’s market
Mobile Cloud
+Education
Bring Your Own Device (to class)Providers will exploit mobility & context awareness
Just in time learning, outside the classroomLeverage sensors to interact with real world
Everyone’s a learnerMore cloud-supported learning applications
Leverage complex computations, interact with simulators, data analytics, etc.
MARS Superintendent by PAR Works
