Should chemical educators embrace the cloud?

摘要

Cloud computing is the latest buzzword in instructional technology, and it has obvious applications in chemical education. Just as the Internet created new types of connectivity and collaboration, like Email Learning Management Systems, on-line resources, and social media, the~cloud expands these opportunities even further to connect machines, individuals, devices, and processes. This creates new possibilities for collaboration between individual students, faculty and students, and faculty with each other.