miércoles, 15 de mayo de 2013

E-learning, From Traditional Tools To The Inclusion Of Social Media


The e-Learning is non-face learning using the resources offered by technology. Currently there are many tools that complement traditional training, allowing any user to have easy access to learning anytime. E-Learning ensures continuous training (anytime, anywhere). The student can learn when and wherever he wants.

The e-Learning environment is the Internet. Using virtual environments, Learning Management Systems, discussion forums, chat rooms, video conferencing, Web seminars, games, web 2.0 resources (blogs, social networks), strengthens the e-Learning model.
The use of e-Learning is increasingly widespread. Large technology companies offer services directly themselves (in-house), supplemented with external content providers. Other companies outsource entire business model of services and content providers.
Now we are in transition to a new way to educate, to new working environments, where social organization of communities and new economic frameworks will play a leading role. Technological changes and new solutions are emerging, creating collaborative environments on which to develop the transformation and evolution of all aspects of life.
Every day the service costs, the ease of switching between them, allow us to naturally incorporate new services offered by technology. Face learning model mix with e-Learning, the Internet connectivity, the touchscreens PCs, and guarantee a rich training model pluralist and collaborative.

One of the main challenges for e-learning is to make learning resources dynamic, interactive and engaging. It is not a simple conversion of text on paper to digitized text, audio and video mixing. Online courses should develop diverse types of multimedia activities, with criteria of creativity, usability and practicality.

You have to offer a quality education in an environment that it is in a process of constant updating. The contents developed today may highlight its innovative format, but tomorrow it will be obsolete. The technology used to create these files will change.

In this context it has developed the social e-learning, taking advantage of the communication channels, the dissemination and exchange of information on the Internet. Students will play a leading role in the educational process, collaborating and even researching for themselves. Learning becomes more spontaneous therefore as users become accustomed to share and comment.
The social e-Learning platform should:
  • ·         Coordinate the formal approach with informal training, as well as persons with social approach.
  • ·         Incorporate social media tools such as blogs, RSS feeds, social networking, file sharing, communication and collaboration tools.
  • ·         Provide a social learning experience collaborative and participator





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In conclusion, the e-learning is an educational channel required to meet the development needs of company employees. Training through e-learning channel plays an important role to attract and hold the best talent. Employees are demanding more flexibility in their training, which requires a shift from a Demand Driven model to a Supply Driven model. E-learning tools are an important factor in a Supply Driven model.

miércoles, 27 de marzo de 2013


Pinterest, The Images Social Network


A U.S. study shows that Pinterest is almost as popular as Twitter.
The study indicates that 67% of Internet users in the USA have an account on the Facebook network. The Surveys have found that the second most used social network is Twitter with 16% And, who closely follows, is interested with 15%.
A curious fact? Even Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, is a user of this platform.
Pinterest is the union of two words, Pin plus Interest, which would come to be translated as hooking interests, the big difference of this network is that it is 100% visual.
How does works Pinterest?
The aim of Pinterest is to Promote interaction between users, but concentrating on the publication and re-publication of photos and videos.
Through this network, users Can share their contacts with images and recordings, either themselves or others. The contacts may republish, rate or comment.
The images and videos can be accompanied by texts with no more than 500 characters.
Pinterest Uses
Pinterest is a new social network designed to share pictures and videos on a kind of whiteboard (pinboard). Within Pinterest content is organized into different categories, such as: architecture, history, humor, travel, and more.

Pinterest is climbing positions and many wonder why. We can say that Pinterest has potential for a variety of uses such as:
1.   For creative teams, the tool provides the ability to work collaboratively, arise environment where brainstorming and images that can act as an inspiring and motivating.
2.   To raise awareness of a brand, product or service, Pinterest is ideal to build catalogs with prices included, and offering no cost online presence. It is also possible to test new ideas, testing how many users "pinean" about a new product.
3.   For foodies, Pinterest offers post all kinds of recipes, with step by step preparation and pictures of it.
4.   For professional photographers, Pinterest offers the possibility to present their portfolio of work and find new ideas for compositions.
5.   To plan a social event, you can get ideas and contact you with people who can help you all the details of the event are innovildables.
6.   For travelers, via Pinterest can plan trips, adding links, photos of the places to visit, hotels, etc.. It can also make complete albums of photographs taken during the trip.
7.   For the collector, with Pinterest can prepare a catalog with pictures of objects or parts you collect and make them known to the world.

According to users of the network, highlighting the design and usability of Pinterest, which has encouraged its widespread use.

How much cost Pinterest

Recently this network has been valued at 7.7 billion dollars. It should be noted that this value is an estimate.
The reasons for this valuation are:
·         The main attractive advertising constitutes the length of time that users remain on the platform. We have studied that each user remains in place on average 89 minutes, which is much greater time spent in the other networks (such as Twitter, with an average 20 minutes).
·         The visual impact it has on its users, due to its attractive interface.
Traffic statistics prove that Pinterest is at this time the preferred social network, mostly, for future brides, fashion lovers, for food  and the arts. The board also finds many travel, home organization, books and gifts or favorite products.
The big difference is that this network is 100% visual. And there lies the success of it is visual, organized and yet you can promote and / or share links. 

martes, 22 de enero de 2013

Information Technology


Information Technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data. In a business context, information technology (IT) is defined as "the study, design, development, application, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems".

The business value of information technology is to automate business processes, provide information for decision making, connect business with their customers, and provide productivity tools to increase efficiency.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the term information technology (IT) was a little known phrase that was used by those who worked in places like banks and hospitals to describe the processes they used to store information. With the paradigm shift to computing technology and "paperless" workplaces, information technology has come to be a household phrase. It defines an industry that uses computers, networking, software programming, and other equipment and processes to store, process, retrieve, transmit, and protect information.
Great technological advances have been made since the days when computers were huge pieces of equipment that were stored in big, air conditioned rooms, getting their information from punch cards.
Information and communication technologies has evolved into a key enabling infrastructure across industries while proving to be a powerful driver of enhanced living conditions and opportunities around the globe. IT has changed the world dramatically and it is bound to continue to do so in the future.