Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Cloud Learning: Using email

Cloud learning is all about harnessing cloud services for composing and delivering learning modules.  In 2008, I had used a combination of  web tools for conducting seminars.  In this post, I describe the use of email as the starting point in building cloud learning system. Email provides a student a first identity on both web and as well as in a cloud learning system. Email also provides the indentity and first point of contact the course coordinator.

Background
This time I am teaching a course titlted Entrepreneurship, Management and Protection of IP for the fifth semester of engineering. This is a common course under our newly acquired autonomy. As a first step towards delivering course resources on the web ( in addition to class room), I created an email empip2009@gmail.com

This email will be used for the following
  • As the point of contact for all course related communications such as announcement of events, availability  of course related resources
  • As a first identity to use other cloud resources such as blogs, groups, docs etc.

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