Thomas Edison State College makes use of USB flash drives and HotLava
TRENTON, N.J., USA Thomas Edison State College is one of the pioneers in online education. Mycentraljersey.com delivers a good article on Matthew Cooper (27) who started developing FlashTrack courses on USB flash drives which enable users to access 15 courses on their laptops (or PCs) without any type of internet access. Since July 2009 courses for mobile phones which have been created with HotLava are also available. Forbes has called Thomas Edison State College one of the leading schools in matters of technology and online learning.
Link: Thomas Edison State College http://www.tesc.edu/
stanchfi on November 2nd, 2009
I can see the advantage of the reliability, and not depending on the servers being up 24/7. I definitely see the downside of not being able to interact with other students in real time.