DROPBOX AS AN ENABLER OF LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

Traditional education is nowadays replaced by modern forms of teaching and learning tailored to suit a variety of needs and organized so that knowledge can be delivered and gained in a shorter time than before. Many businesses became interested in providing employees with courses tailored to meet their needs and developed computer networks; it become obvious these networks put a number of problems related to cost and feasibility. Therefore, learning began to use public or private services that had advantages related not only to their reduced cost, but also to their capacity to store and share information. ESP courses followed the trend and began to use services such as Google Apps, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. This paper presents the advantages of cloud-computing for language learning, using the example of Dropbox as a method of personal cloud storage and a means to share course outlines, bibliography and academic requirements.

Keywords

• e-learning
• cloud-based learning
• dropbox