People have been
talking about cloud computing for a very long time now. It’s difficult for one
to really pin down when the term first entered public discourse. But it’s fair
to say that the average person has been aware of the cloud for at least a
decade now.
However, at the same time one often sees a vague ambiguity surrounding the
term. Even people within the business world are often uncertain as to what the
cloud can do for them. There’s good reason for this confused tone though.
The cloud is a rather difficult idea to strictly define. Computers themselves
offer up a perfect comparison. Try to precisely define what is and isn’t a
computer. Desktop systems are most certainly computers. But what about a
tablet? What if a keyboard and desktop operating system were added to the
tablet? Are the early analog computers really the same thing as …
This module seems on the sources of schooling in Colonial America; factors that motivated the acquisition of literacy in the colonies; formal instructional institutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; publish-Revolution republican visions of free public colleges; characteristics of elementary colleges in the early Republic; and Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Academy.