5.4: How has the Human Network Influenced you?
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- Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar
- ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)
Networks Support the Way We Learn
Networks have changed how we learn. Access to top-notch guidance is not, at this point, confined to understudies living in the vicinity to where that guidance is being conveyed.
Online distance learning has evacuated geographic hindrances and improved opportunities for students. Vigorous and dependable networks bolster and improve student learning encounters. They convey learning material in a wide scope of arrangements, including intelligent exercises, appraisals, and criticism.
Networks Support the Way We Communicate
The globalization of the Internet has introduced new types of correspondence that engage people to make data that a worldwide crowd can access.
A few types of communication include:
- Messaging : Texting empowers moment constant correspondence between at least two individuals. WhatsApp and Skype are examples of messaging tools that have gained huge popularity.
- Internet-based life : Social media comprises intelligent sites where individuals and networks make and offer client-created content with companions, family, peers, and the world. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are among the biggest social media platforms at this time.
- Joint effort tools : Without the limitations of area or time region, cooperation instruments permit people to speak with one another, frequently across a continuous intelligent video. The expansive circulation of information systems implies that individuals in remote areas can contribute on an equivalent premise with individuals in the core of largely populated places. An example of that would be online gaming, where several players are connected to the same server.
- Online journals : Blogs, which is a shortened form of "weblogs." In contrast to business sites, sites give anybody a way to impart their musings to a worldwide crowd without specialized information on website composition.
- Wikis : Wikis are website pages that gatherings of individuals can alter and see together. Like an individual diary, an individual often writes a blog, and a wiki collects creations from many people. All things considered, it might be dependent upon increasingly broad surveys and altering. Numerous organizations use wikis as their inner joint effort apparatus.
- Podcasting : Podcasting permits individuals to convey their sound chronicles to a wide crowd. The sound document is put on a site (or blog or wiki) where others can download it and play the account on their PCs, workstations, and other cell phones.
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: Peer-to-Peer document sharing permits individuals to impart records to one another without putting away and downloading them from a local server. The client joins the P2P arrangement by just introducing the P2P programming. Everybody has not grasped P2P document sharing. Numerous individuals are worried about disregarding the laws of copyrighted materials.
- Napster, which was released in 1999, was the first generation of P2P systems. Some well-known P2P systems are Xunlei, Bittorrent, and Gnutella.
Networks Support the Way We Work
In the business world, information systems were first utilized by organizations for internal uses and to oversee budgetary data, client data, and representative finance frameworks. These business systems advanced to empower the transmission of a wide range of data administrations, including email, video, informing, and communication.
The utilization of systems has been increasingly used to prepare workers for their effectiveness and efficiencies. Internet learning opportunities can diminish tedious and exorbitant travel yet still guarantee that all representatives are sufficiently prepared to play out their occupations in a protected and gainful way.
Networks Support the Way We Play
The Internet is utilized for customary types of amusement. We tune in to listen to music, see or view movies, read whole books and download material for future disconnected access. Live games and shows can be experienced as they are occurring or recorded and viewed on request.
Networked systems empower the making of new types of amusement, for example, internet games. Online multiplayer games have become very popular because they allow friends to play virtually when they can’t meet in person.
Indeed, even offline activities are improved utilizing network joint effort administrations. Worldwide, people with the same interests have interacted with each other quickly. We share normal encounters and pastimes well past our nearby neighborhood, city, or locale. Sports fans share opinions and realities about their preferred teams. Gatherers show valued assortments and get expert input about them.
Whatever type of entertainment we appreciate, systems are improving our experience. How would you play on the Internet?