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What is being learned online?
05
May
A new report on the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) was published in late April and
can show progress and setbacks in these new means of mass education.
The report, again funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates (the first was also and did a post), was coordinated by George Siemens, a technology-academic expert at the University of Texas at Arlington, and states that the initial frenzied enthusiasm seems now a little milder: “It’s almost like now we passed by a shameful period in which we forget we were researching and how were scientists, hurried to make decisions and proclaim things that were not scientific whole,” he told the publication of Wired Campus .
The goal then this new report is to offer research topics: student engagement and learning success in a process of self-regulation and social learning, network analysis and network learning, including: motivation, attitude and criteria success.
Siemens understood the basics of networks, this might be embarrassing said that without the involvement of the students. “Now the subject of particular interest,” it is just a distraction from a distance and is “is literally just a click away” as the published report (download).
Five key research themes were identified in the report: student engagement and success of learning, Mooc´s design and curriculum, self-regulated learning and social learning, social network analysis and network learning, and motivation, attitude, and success criteria.
The names of student engagement reports as a prominent issue. Many students enrolled in MOOCs non-traditional, to make sure that they are involved and able to succeed in such a course is even more important.
The Siemens teacher said he hopes the report will help colleges to tomaem r intelligent decisions based on research and evidence, to create their digital campuses.
38% of the world are connected
27
Feb
The data are from a study entitled “State of connectivity 2014: Report on the global internet,” which analyzes the current state of the network connection, the profile of the connected and which are not.
According to the survey, in early 2015 was outnumbered the 3 billion people online, and this means 38% of the world population, if we discount old people and children who still do not connect directly, it can be said more half of humanity is connected in some way.
This number was calculated by people who somehow connected to the internet from computers or mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, as GeekWire site.
This difference increases when the comparison is made between developed and developing countries, where the first has a total of 32% of people who have not connected to the Internet is 32%.; while in the second this number reaches 78%.
The text cites Brazil as an indicator of maturity. The average of the connecting members 416 is megabytes (MB) per month.
The study can be accessed by a Facebook page called Newsroom, which shows the evolution of the data and do other analyzes.
Pirate Bay returned to the Web
02
Feb
After numerous lawsuits and arrests, a former director of the Pirate Bay have disabled your blog, now he is in the air again since yesterday, changed the logo pirate ship by the Phoenix.
One of the founders of the site, Peter Sunde, said that the file download via torrent platform was overcome and full of advertisements that did not belong to the domain, and then said the best thing to do was the same decree the end.
Peter Sunde that is no longer part of the team, said the new online community will bring more surprises and should be more efficient than the previous site.
To celebrate the “rebirth” of the site, the pirate ship logo was replaced by the drawing of a phoenix, a legendary bird of Greek mythology, who died when he returned after some time from its own ashes.
Around the air was scheduled for early February, but stepped forward, to the delight of users, the site’s domain remains the same and also all original collection of links.
According to the site Torrent Freak, who conducted research on the servers of The Pirate Bay, the number of lost files seems to have been minimal.
Share is a right, like lending a book or a disc, but holders of content business enterprises do not agree with it, and play hard to make the internet also a business territory, but one day this right will be recognized.
Technologies expected in 2015
23
Jan
Finally accessible to users (there are already versions for developers), the glasses Oculus Rift and Google Glass, Apple Watch (slightly exaggerated in some detail), Windows 10 (jumped 9) arrives with likely improvements; the annoying scroll screens 8 and the Start button and the new Microsoft phones (Nokia), Samsung and Chinese.
The Oculus Rift was the world champion sold kits, 75,000 kits to july last year when the company was bought by Facebook, promises to tackle the Google Glass, super advertised, commented, now promises to be entering the market, but the product arrived at Brazilian market for R $ 6,500.
Four days ago Google announced the end of the program and Google Glass disappeared.
Microsoft in this event last Wednesday (21/01) announced great news for Windows 10, including a new browser and new possibilities for games.
Around the start menu, but Windows 8 screen is still there, but now there is the possibility to leave everything on the home screen, without having to be “rolling” to the sides.
Microsoft will release Windows Phone 8.1 leaving aside the Nokia brand (although use this technology), Samsung launches its sixth model with versions in aluminum cover and the Chinese have occupied 38 market promising to overcome Apple’s iPhone in 10 years, according to Lenovo companies, Huawei and Xiaomi.
Not only consumerism is a need for flexible and advanced handsets to our tasks of everyday life, the cost is possible for Brazilians.
Hybrid cloud, the IT strategy for 2015
29
Dec
A survey commissioned by Avanade, enterprise business IT solutions and services, with a sample of more than a thousand executives and leaders of business units in 21 countries, found that half of the services will be deployed in hybrid clouds in 3 years.
Hybrid cloud is a service “hosting” where cloud computing uses IT resources that are provided through an internal private cloud within the company and resources provided by third party service providers in the cloud “publishes” the application type, storage and network systems.
The fact that the pace of investment in this area is accelerated in Brazil, according to Avanade, this will be a great solution focuses on the area in 2015, three caveats must be made:
– Despite the adoption of hybrid cloud be a priority, only 58% have any implementation strategy,
– The potential of hybrid cloud is poorly understood, some are able to identify the benefits provided and turn them into benefits in the workload and efficiency, and
– Most agree that organizations will have a generic benefit of improving business growth, but can not say why this happens.
So beware, not all news is beneficial to the company was not understood and implemented correctly, noted that 2015 will be a year of travel “sideways” in brazilian economy.
Android running on PCs
17
Dec
It seems a growing trend, in january, Acer announced their laptop with Android and in August AOC, but many others have running Android and is easy to install on a desktop computer, see the instructions in Tecnoblog.
One reason is the competition with the Windows system that users remain faithful to install newer versions, the flagship of running Acer Android is the TA272 HUL with 27-inch screen and resolution of 2560×1440 pixels, which ensures very interesting results for gaming and movie playback, however he has only 16GB of memory and it is not simple to make expansions, and the international price is around US $ 1,000.
The AOC launched the EVO line, the EVO A2072PWH that has a 16.5 inch display and the EVO A2272WHTN which has 21.5-inch touch display with resolution 1920 to 1080 inches, the prices are respectively around R $ 900 (about U$ 350) and R $ 1,200 real (about U$ 430).
The AOC has products that please the Brazilian pocket as the Breeze 8 tablet with an IPS screen of eight inches and HD resolution of 1024×768 pixels, dual-core processor ARM Cortex-A9 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage (expandable up to 32GB by micro SD card, is priced in national stores of R $ 449.
Because to this integration with Android the companies is calling its line of all-in-one.
Travel by Web Worlds
15
Dec
The Site Webcams Skyline has online cameras in Spain, Belgium, Croatia, Greece, USA, Dubai, Switzerland, Hungary and the Philippines, highlight the Dubai cameras where you see the beautiful bay where the Marina, in Brussels (Belgium) the Market Square, in Madrid Puerta del Sol, where you see a beautiful Christmas tree, almost all Web Cam has sound.
In Italy, highlight the camera where you see the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain, in Greece there is a camera in panoramic views of Larissa, turistic city.
EarthCam is an American site with many Web Cams: in New York and many American cities, in Tokyo, Bangkok, Paris and other European cities such as Budapest, Hungary, where you see a view of the Elizabeth Bridge over the Danube.
Offers interactive tools as new with maps and photos from different locations.
WorldCam is a European site, with interactivity by categories (museums, Christmas, etc.) and also with cameras worldwide, perhaps the most extensive, with cameras even at the poles, as the Scott Base New Zealand (polo Antarctic) or in Barrow in Alaska (Arctic pole).
Explore further the WebCams.travel sites and WebCamEnDirect and good trip.
Networking of things: 5G
10
Dec
So far the connections were being upgraded to improve the performance of telephone between people, but the IoT (Internet of Things) is coming up with 5G connections and this can cause an even greater transformation.
We point in our blog (see smart cities or smart cities) that a greater connection between people and things could facilitate the daily lives of people, but now the idea is to connect us to our everyday objects.
This scenario will be fully ready in no more than six years, and now scientists, governments and communications companies make plans for the use of 5G communication from 2020.
Most experts believe that this will multiply by 10 the connections between people and objects, says Sara Mazur to BBC News: “Before there was talk that by 2020 there would be 50 billion devices connected to the internet, it is now believed that this figure is cautious,” it is research director at Ericsson, one of the communications companies that are developing the 5G.
In 2013 Samsung announced Samsung announced in 2013 that was experiencing the 5G connection to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), and this means downloading a movie in HD in just one second with this connection, the future has arrived.
Holograms tactile
06
Dec
The invention comes from the University of Bristol, 
England, where through micro-speakers can touch and feel the images projected in 3D, as news in Daily Mail.
The technique is being called tactile holograms, and the effect is produced by the strong changes in the molecules that make up the air using small speakers that produce ultrasound, the virtual objects created by holograms, sensations in the hands in three dimensions.
The next necessary step now is that the technology integrates conventional holograms production technologies, giving the impression that he can play the virtual object, for example, transmitted video calls from a person, it would be possible to greet her.
The great application thought initially is in medicine, where holographic images of tumors could be played by doctors, helping the most accurate understanding of the size of the affected area, assisting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
New Nokia tablet mimics iPad
19
Nov
If you will buy a tablet may compensate wait a bit and not adhere to the consumerism of Christmas, a new tablet Nokia N1 is being launched in the first half of the year itself but using the Android operating system interface and very cheap.
Still no word on the launch in Brazil or the US, but it is known that cost around $ 250 (has something around 750 brazilian reais), will be distributed by Foxconn, measures 7.9 inches and weighs 318 grams.
Much like how the iPad Mini, all aluminum equipment may bring news from € 5.7 million the Finnish Nokia has done with the Microsoft agreement, getting your business network and service equipment, with this brand expected to start to recover part of the lost market and re-strengthen.
The new Nokia N1 has 2 GB of RAM, internal storage of 32 GNB, camera 8 MPixel to adjust focus (back), 5 MP front camera and uses battery of 5300 mAh.
Worth the wait, chances are this tablet register on the cost-benefit ratio.
