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Online Teaching Learning

Online learning is the newest and most popular form of distance education today. Within the past decade it has had a major impact on post secondary education and the trend is only increasing. Online learning is education that takes place over the Internet. It is often referred to as “e-learning” among other terms. However, online learning is just one type of “distance learning” – the umbrella term for any learning that takes place across distance and not in a traditional classroom.

Internet of things

The interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data.

A thing, in the Internet of Things, can be a person with a heart monitor implant, a farm animal with a bio-chip transponder, an automobile that has built-in sensors to alert the driver when tire pressure is low — or any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an IP Address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network.

IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS),micro services and the internet. The convergence has helped tear down the silo walls between operational technologies and information technology , allowing unstructured machine generated data to be analyzed for insights that will drive improvements.

How does it work?

 IoT in your home

Imagine you wake up at 7am every day to go to work. Your alarm clock does the job of waking you just fine. That is, until something goes wrong. Your train’s cancelled and you have to drive to work instead. The only problem is that it takes longer to drive, and you would have needed to get up at 6.45am to avoid being late. Oh, and it’s pouring with rain, so you’ll need to drive slower than usual. A connected or Io T-enabled alarm clock would reset itself based on all these factors, to ensure you got to work on time. It could recognize that your usual train is cancelled, calculate the driving distance and travel time for your alternative route to work, check the weather and factor in slower traveling speed because of heavy rain, and calculate when it needs to wake you up so you’re not late. If it’s super-smart, if might even sync with your Io T-enabled coffee maker, to ensure your morning caffeine’s ready to go when you get up.