DROPBOX AS AN ENABLER OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
Traditional education is nowadays replaced by modern forms of teaching and learning tailored to suit a variety of needs and organized so that knowledge can be delivered and gained in a shorter time than before. Many businesses became interested in providing employees with courses tailored to meet...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Defense Resources Management |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jodrm.eu/issues/Volume11_issue1/10_Kraft.pdf |
| Summary: | Traditional education is nowadays replaced by modern forms of teaching and learning tailored to suit a
variety of needs and organized so that knowledge can be delivered and gained in a shorter time than before.
Many businesses became interested in providing employees with courses tailored to meet their needs and
developed computer networks; it become obvious these networks put a number of problems related to cost
and feasibility. Therefore, learning began to use public or private services that had advantages related not
only to their reduced cost, but also to their capacity to store and share information. ESP courses followed the
trend and began to use services such as Google Apps, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
This paper presents the advantages of cloud-computing for language learning, using the example of Dropbox
as a method of personal cloud storage and a means to share course outlines, bibliography and academic
requirements. |
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| ISSN: | 2068-9403 2068-9403 |