Cloud LearningHow did electronics turn from subject and tool of education to scene of education?György Seres, Péter Gerő, Ildikó Miskolczi, Krisztina Fórika, Piroska Lengyeldrseres@drseres.com, gp.projekt@gmail.com , miskolczi.ildiko@gmailcom , krisztina@forika.hu , l.piroska@t-online.hu Abstract:The wide-ranging spread of the internet and the fast internet availability leads to a big breakthrough in the 90th of the last century and in the 1st decade of the new millennium.There is the situation, when electronics turned from subject and tool of education to scene of education.We must to get acquainted with a new concept at begin of the 10th of the new millennium – it is the Cloud Computing.Heart of this service is that: all ambitious tasks of data storage and processing are executed by providers in the Cloud, and user must have a simple internet browser. More Cloud Computing services are free, or for any price – which is significantly lower than users own hardware and software charge should be.Modern interactive education in our time can be up-to-date and cost effective if it takes up special educational Cloud Computing – Cloud Learning – services and Community portals.We show some services like this, which are tested by our “SysAdminLess” team.PrologStart of Public Radio and TV broadcast made the electronics new important subject of education in 20th and 30th of the last century.Spreading of schools' broadcast and the school televisions' made the electronics tool of public education in 40th, 50th and 60th. Electronics became tool of education in schools when audio and video recorders’ and PCs’ price turned into one which can be reached in 70th and 80th.But the wide-ranging application of the internet and the fast internet availability leads to a big breakthrough in the 90th and in the 1st decade of the new millennium.Any kind of curriculum became accessible for anybody, anywhere and under real time any time with help of digital audio or video recording and broadband data transfer on the internet.So, the building of eLearning, the Internet has been built. The classrooms, in other words the local Intranet networks equipped with Learning Management Systems are being built.The computers – the most modern desks – are ready to welcome students.All the imaginable and unthinkable forms of demonstration multimedia devices, as blackboards and presentation software, as boxes of chalk – are available for teachers.There is the situation, when electronics turned from subject and tool of education to scene of education.We must to get acquainted with a new concept at begin of the 10th of the new millennium – it is the Cloud Computing.Running of increasingly more complicated application programs, transfer and storage of increasingly more data files and increasingly more speed of data transfer or processing make an increasingly more hardware and software demand on users. It is the recognition, which born service of Cloud Computing. Heart of this service is that: all ambitious tasks of data storage and processing are executed by providers in the Cloud, and user must have a simple internet browser. More Cloud Computing services are free, or for any price – which is significantly lower than users own hardware and software charge should be.Modern interactive education in our time can be up-to-date and cost effective if it takes up special educational Cloud Computing – Cloud Learning – services and Community portals.We show some services like this, which are tested by our “SysAdminLess” team.Storage and share of documentsStorage and share of the most often-used curriculums – documents - can be by a lot of service provider on the internet.Most widespread are Google Docs and two hosting of Microsoft - the Windows Live Sky Drive, and the Office Live.First one is able for individual and shared editing online and chat among editors.Documents can be common edited and shared on the Microsoft hosting too, but offline with MS Office applications of editors only.1. Figure. Google Docs 2. Figure. Windows Live3. Figure. Office LiveStorage and share of pictures and videosStorage and share of audio-visual curriculums - pictures and videos – is the oldest service of Cloud Computing after search providers. Most popular is Picasa and Youtube, but Vimeo and Flickr portals are used by a lot of users too. Presentations are the most used tool in all forms and level of education and knowledge management.That’s why a lot of service providers are specialized to storage and share of presentations.By our experiences the authorSTREAM portal warrants the most authenticable show of presentations like PowerPoint, but Slideshare and Scribd portal are popular in this service of Cloud Computing too. Novel, interesting and scenic presentations can be created and stored online by a new portal Prezi – which is bring into being by Hungarian developer.4. Figure. Picasa5. Figure. Youtube6. Figure. Vimeo7. Figure. FlickrStorage and share of presentations Presentations are the most used tool in all forms and level of education and knowledge management.That’s why a lot of service providers are specialized to storage and share of presentations.By our experiences the authorSTREAM portal warrants the most authenticable show of presentations like PowerPoint, but Slideshare and Scribd portals are popular in this service of Cloud Computing too. Novel, interesting and scenic presentations can be created and stored online by a new portal Prezi – which is bring into being by Hungarian developer.8. Figure. Presentations on authorSTREAM portal9. Figure. Presentations on slideshare portal10. Figure. Presentations on Scribd portal11. Figure. Presentations on Prezi portalVirtual classroom Providers of storage presentations Google Docs and authorSTREAM permit of public or private show with parallel chat among presenter and audience. Conference call by Skype or Windows Messenger can be used for talking in the time of presentation too. Special services of WiZiQ and DimDim portals provide more lifelike feasibility for lectures which meets condition of virtual classroom. They confirm smart board service with voice and video contact beside show of pictures, videos and presentations. These portals provide to meet each other teachers and students in a topic of education as an addition special online TV portal Ustream permit of broadcasting a lecture from our webcam. The Ustream Producer mixing panel software allows varying multimedia materials in the course of broadcast.Contact among lecturer and viewers can be parallel chat-room like Google Docs and authorSTREAM presentations. 12. Figure. Online presentation by Google Docs13. Figure. Online presentation by authorSTREAM 14. Figure. Conference call by Skype and Windows Live Messenger15. Figure. Recorded virtual lecture on WiZiQ portal16. Figure. Schedule a virtual classroom on DimDim portal17. Figure. Recorded broadcast on Ustream portal18. Figure. Ustream Producer mixing panelBlogThe trendiest service of Cloud Computing blogging can be usable in education process too.Teachers and students can to keep a text or multimedia diary – blog – about their ideas, observation from curriculums, lectures, fellow students and teachers.Posts on the most popular blog providers Blogger and Wordpress are text with pictures and links mostly.The tumblr portal usable embedding miscellaneous blog posts - text, picture and video. Service of the Wallwisher portal can be used as a bulletin board of a class, because its editing is very simple.More of Learning Management Systems – like Moodle or Ilias – provides blogging for its users. 19. Figure. Blogger20. Figure. Wordpress21. Figure. Blog on tumblr22. Figure. Wallwisher bulletin board23. Figure. Blog on MoodleSocial networking Social contacts confirmed by community portals in Cloud Computing can be very useful for network based education.The most widespread community portal twitter, which able sharing of short SMS-like text messages – chirping.Facebook and Hungarian iWiW portal serve search of friends and keep of contacts among them. LinkedIN portal advance make and keep of professional contacts in different trade activity. 24. Figure. Chirping on twitter25. Figure. Post on facebook26. Figure. Club on iWiW27. Figure. Profile on LinkedINLearning Management System Learning Management Systems provide complex tools of e-learning in the world of Cloud Learning.There is some free software beside buyable and rentable systems of great firm – like Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc.The most popular free LMS Moodle and Ilias are used by many Hungarian educational, business or government organization and individual teachers. 28. Figure. Some Hungarian Moodle portal on Google mapsTest, self test More of provider of Cloud Learning offers tools for creating tests and self test.Online questionnaires can be created with Google Docs, which are appreciable in common table after submitting. More of virtual classroom services and LMS contain a lot of testing tools too. Effective, interesting and scenic tests can be created with special software – like free Hot Potatoes and Quandary. 29. Figure. Test about evaluate of a lecture30. Figure. Start page of Hot Potatoes software31. Figure. Work page of Quandary softwareSysAdminLess Club A doctoral topic - „Use of e-learning and distance learning in military higher education” – and a curriculum – „IT bases of interactive e-learning and d-learning” – has been called at PhD School on Military Technology of ZMNDU in 2007. Because the 10 years old homepage was unable for interactive distance learning, a new Drupal engine based Web 2 portal has been created – named E-TEACHER. A distance course has been called on the new portal. The new portal has been discovered by great searching providers without any advertisement, and they refer many quests to the portal from all world. Many people begun the course – and some of them performed it.A six person’s team came into being as a result of outcome of the course – SysAdminLess Club.We meet weekly in the Cloud. A lot of individual and common publications, lectures at scientific conferences, applications and awards and four individual Moodle portals were born as a result our meetings.Three members of Club are PhD students in doctoral school. And we learn many from each other. 32. Figure. Our portal33. Figure. Moodle portal of Ildiko Miskolczi34. Figure. Moodle portal of Krisztina Fórika35. Figure. Moodle portal of Piroska Lengyel36. Figure. Moodle portal of Péter GerőConclusion…Bibliography/Reference:Kende György, Seres György: Egy interaktív e-learning portál első tapasztalatai, (Workshop 2008 of Knowledge Management Sub-board of Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest) http://vati.szie.hu/files/vati/mta-2008.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Kende György, Seres György, Miskolczi Ildikó, Hangya Gábor: Virtuális Campus, (Award of Zrínyi Miklós Fundation on Military Sciences, Budapest, 2008)http://drseres.com/publik/pdf/virtuális_campus.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)http://drseres.com/publik/pdf/virtual_campus.pdf (in english; last download: April 13. 2010)György Kende, György Seres, Ildikó Miskolczi: Let’s learn easily and quickly – lifelong, anytime, anywhere (Jampeper.eu, online quarterly 3./III./2008)http://www.jampaper.eu/Jampaper_E-ARC/No.3_III._2008_files/JAM080302e.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Miskolczi Ildikó, Seres György: "Egy interaktív e-learning portál első tapasztalatai egy e-diák és egy e-tanár szemszögéből” (Workshop 2008 of Knowledge Management Sub-board of Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest)http://vati.szie.hu/files/vati/Miskolczi.ppt (last download: April 13. 2010)Seres György, Miskolczi Ildikó, Szabó László: Hatékony felsőoktatás – az Internet lehetőségei a távoktatásban (Scientific Conference on the Day of Earth, Szolnok, 2008)http://portal.zmne.hu/download/bjkmk/bsz/bszemle2008/4/05_Seres%20Gyorgy.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Seres György, Kende György, Miskolczi Ildikó, Fórika Krisztina: Az e-tanulás lehetőségei a külszolgálatot teljesítő katonák képzésében (Scientific Conference ZMNDU, Szolnok, 2009)http://www.szrfk.hu/rtk/kulonszamok/2009_cikkek/Kende_Gyorgy-Miskolczi_Ildiko_stb.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Miskolczi Ildikó: A tudásprezentálás elmélete és gyakorlata az e-learningben (Hadmérnök, 2009/2.) (last download: April 13. 2010)http://hadmernok.hu/2009_2_miskolczi.php (last download: April 13. 2010)György Kende, György Seres, Ildikó Miskolczi, Gábor Hangya: Virtual Campus (New Challenges in the Field of Military Sciences 6th International Scientific Conference Budapest, Hungary, 2009, Proceedings CD-ROM ISBN 978-963-87706-4-6) http://drseres.com/publik/pdf/virtual_campus.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Seres György, Miskolczi Ildikó, Fórika Krisztina, Hangya Gábor: Terepi kivitelű moodle munkaállomás alkalmazhatósága a katonai továbbképzésben (Hadmérnök, 2010/1.)http://www.hadmernok.hu/2010_1_seres_etal.php (last download: April 13. 2010)Fórika Krisztina, dr. Miskolci Ildikó: Agorák a XXI. században, avagy a virtuális terek közösségépítő szerepe, (Multimédia az oktatásban , tudományos konferencia, Debrecen, 2009.)http://mmo2009.kfrtkf.hu/file.php/1/MMO2009_Programfuzet_v5.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)Seres György, Fórika Krisztina, Miskolczi Ildikó: Az E-Tanár=E-Portál Közösség Oktatási Oldalai - Fórika-Moodle és Miskolczi-Moodle, távoktatásban (Scientific Conference on the Day of World Sciences, Szolnok, 2009)http://www.szolnok.mtesz.hu/sztk/kulonszamok/2009/cikkek/Seres_Gyorgy-Forika_Krisztina-Miskolczi_Ildiko.pdf (last download: April 13. 2010)TartalomProlog11Storage and share of documents32Storage and share of pictures and videos43Storage and share of presentations74Virtual classroom95Blog136Social networking167Learning Management System188Test, self test199SysAdminLess Club2210Conclusion24Bibliography/Reference:25 http://docs.drseres.com/ https://cid-0009fa821aa3c4fa.groups.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Documents http://workspace.office.live.com/#drseres/Workspace 1 http://picasaweb.google.com/drseres00 http://youtube.com/user/etanar1 http://vimeo.com/drseres/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/drseres/ http://www.authorstream.com/tag/drseres http://www.slideshare.net/drseres http://www.scribd.com/drseres http://prezi.com/ggotqqw6w5d_/ http://docs.google.com/a/drseres.com/present/view?id=dgdg6bm9_669fw43zwhb&invite=906859995 http://www.authorstream.com/presentlive/291884_633964445461711250 http://www.wiziq.com/drseres http://my.dimdim.com/drseres http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drseres http://drseres.blogspot.com/ http://drseres.wordpress.com/ http://etanar.tumblr.com/ http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/drseres http://www.miskolczi.net/moodle/blog/index.php?filtertype=site& http://twitter.com/drseres http://facebook.com/drseres http://iwiw.hu/pages/user/userdata.jsp?userID=14773705 http://www.linkedin.com/in/drseres http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=hu&source=embed&msa=0&msid=101603881709700285892.000456741957ac82e86b4&ll=47.724545,18.775635&spn=4.404937,11.634521&z=7 http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/drseres.com/viewform?key=0Akgnf94P4BXVcEVpbDRSN1hRWEV5Y1ZPcXBvVVRpTUE&hl=hu http://www.geropeter.hu/moodle/mod/quiz/view.php?id=228 http://drseres.com/elearning/tesztek/hotpot/index.htm http://drseres.com/elearning/tesztek/quandary/index.htm http://drseres.com/elearning http://miskolczi.net/moodle http://forika.hu/moodle http://www.lengyelpiroska.hu/moodle http://www.geropeter.hu/moodle