This document discusses cloud computing and open educational resources as opportunities for education. It begins by covering top technologies like cloud computing, mobile applications, and social media. It then defines cloud computing and the different types of cloud services. The rest of the document discusses how educational institutions can move services like email and collaboration tools to the cloud. It also covers integrating open educational resources and digitizing textbooks to modernize libraries. The overall message is that cloud computing and open resources can help educational institutions improve technology offerings.

1. Cloud Computing and
Open Educational Resources
an opportunity in education
Denpong Soodphakdee, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic and Information Technology
KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY

2. What I will cover ?
● Top technologies
● What is cloud and online services?
● How should we do it?
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3. Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
1. Cloud Computing
2. Mobile Applications and Media Tablets
3. Social Communications and Collaboration
4. Video
5. Next Generation Analytics
6. Social Analytics
7. Context-Aware Computing
8. Storage Class Memory
9. Ubiquitous Computing
10.Fabric-Based Infrastructure and Computers
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4. Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
1. Media Tablets and Beyond
2. Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces
3. Contextual and Social User Experience
4. Internet of Things
5. App Stores and Marketplaces
6. Next-Generation Analytics
7. Big Data
8. In-Memory Computing
9. Extreme Low-Energy Servers
10.Cloud Computing
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5. Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2013
1. Mobile Device Battles
2. Mobile Applications and HTML5
3. Personal Cloud
4. Enterprise App Stores
5. The Internet of Things
6. Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing
7. Strategic Big Data
8. Actionable Analytics
9. In Memory Computing
10.Integrated Ecosystems
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6. Online Services & Web 2.0 Cloud Computing
● Services provided over ● Cloud computing is a
the Internet which are method by which
not hosted by their applications and data
institution are hosted and
● Web 2.0 can be delivered
regarded as a
particular type of
application
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7. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the use
of computing resources
(hardware and software)
that are delivered as a
service over a network
(typically the Internet)
--- wikipedia
Cloud computing is the
access to computers and
their functionality via the
Internet or a local area
network
---- eucalyptus
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8. Classification of Clouds
● Public
● Private
● Hybrid
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9. Cloud Service Styles
● Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS)
● Platform as a service
(PaaS)
● Software as a service
(SaaS)
Ref: wikipedia
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10. Smart Phones – iOS, Android, Windows
Smart phone user in Thailand is 18% of all mobile phone and
expected to grow to 60 – 65% by 2015 [Frost & Sullivan]
The smart phone market grow by 31.7-38.8% in 2011 with the
total market value of 32.789-34.544 billion baht. [KResearch]
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11. New players – ubuntu phone
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12. Tablet Market in Thailand in 2012
● Desktop PC : 1.2 million units
● Notebook : 2.25 million units
● Tablet : 2.4 million units
Note: Only 480,000 units sold in 2011
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13. Smart TV
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14. Sync them all
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15. Analytic
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16. ●20,400 GB of global IP data
transferred
102 Million Emails sent
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700 new Mobile Users
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25,000 App downloads
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150,000 Facebook Logins
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3M+ Facebook Views
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● 350,000 Status update
● 40,000+ Wall posts
● 205,010 comments
Over 1 million Search queries on
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Google
15+ Hours of video uploaded on
●
YouTube
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17. SOCIAL MEDIA
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20. Move to Cloud Services
Outsourcing Email
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21. demo
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22. Microsoft Office 365
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24. KKU Collaboration Tools for Students
Google Apps & Office 365
Reg. DB (Oracle) kkumail.com
Redir. login
Login
SSO - SAML
Account
std-acct.kku.ac.th
LDAP - login
- logout
LDAP mod. - e-mail chooser
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26. Online Services
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27. Open Educational Resources
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28. Integration to Online Services
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29. Moodle 2.3+ Repositories
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31. Online Collaboration Tools
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33. Digitize textbook and modernize library
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37. Reach me...
denpong@kku.ac.th
http://slideshare.net/denpong
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