Education AOI

Review the following questions

Define telelearning/e-learning.[2 marks]

Describe two of the technologies involved in telelearning/e-learning [4 marks]

Explain two ways telelearning/e-learning can benefit society? [4 marks]

Discuss two of the more important social and/or ethical issues involved with telelearning/e-learning? [10 marks]

Ready the following on Hardware resources

Hardware in the classroom: laptops, notebooks, teleconferencing
Laptops in Schools - A Wonderfully Cautionary Tale
Helpful Tool or Rude Distraction
Digital Heretics or Voices of Reason
Teleconferencing in Education
Using Web Conferencing to Save Travel Money
Educational Policy for Using Telecommunications

More N&Q Case study Questions

1. Describe one hardware and one software component required to connect to a web page wirelessley.
2. Evaluate the following quote from the case study with reference to your own research."Data is never ever 100% protected from intruders viewing it."
3. Name three wireless encryption standards
4. Describe the differences between land-based wireless internet systems and satellite-based wireless internet systems.
5. List two Wi-Fi compatible products?
6. Explore the different social impacts that come with employees who work long hours and travel regularly.

Personal and Public Communication

Review the following key terms
key terms— convergence, teleconferencing, videoconferencing, telecommuting, digital television, push–pull technologies.

Answer the questions that follow

J-Soft Osaka corp develops and sells software to companies in Japan, but also in the other Asian countries particularly Korea and China. The software is developed in the J-soft offices, but some people can work from home if they want. After a project is finished and the software is installed at the customer's site, J-Soft continue with education, and then with maintenance after that. All this is done remotely, and only in very small number of cases do they send someone to go to the customer's offices. When the client is far from them, e.g. in another country, they have a partner-team located there, who can resolve hardware or communication problems. Thanks to all this, some of the software development team, the help desk staff, and even the sales consultants can work from home.

1. Identify twp peripheral IT devices necessary for telecommuting. [2 marks]
2. An increasing number of J-Soft employees are choosing to work from home full time. Describe one advantage and one disadvantage for employees who telecommute. [4 marks]
3. Examine two benefits of telecommuting for J-Soft. [6 marks]
4. To what extent can remote communication via the use of information technology replace or even improve on face-to-face communication.[8 marks]

Cae study 2009 Review

Use the following site to review the CASE Study
http://isbitgs.wikispaces.com/CaseStudy2009

Diagnostic and therapeutic tools (Health)

Diagnostic and therapeutic tools: robotic surgery, prosthetic devices, diagnostic software, drug development and marketing

Use the links to answer the questions provided:
An interesting comment on the History of Medical Technology
How Robotic Surgery Will Work
Robots Lend a Helping Hand to Surgeons
Using Brain Signals to Control Prosthetic Devices
Advances in Prosthetic Devices Offer Increased Freedom for Amputees
Computer Diagnosis
Computer assisted drug development
In silico testing of drugs

Database Revision

What you need to know about databases

Paper One and Two may require you to evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of databases, you should have an understanding of the following related technological concepts:
Design and creation concepts,
a) field, key field, record, search, query, sort, database management system, mail merge
b) What are relational databases?
c) Flat-file database versus relational database
d) Paper files versus electronic files
e) Data redundancy and data integrity
f) Updating data
g)Data transfer between a database and a spreadsheet
h) Search and the use of the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT)
i) Data mining

The above will enable answer questions on databases

EHR Medical Systems

1. 
   Define an EHR system? [2 marks]
2. 
   Explain two ways an EHR system benefit society? [4 marks]
3. 
   Explain two of the reasons why EHR's are not yet widely used. [4 marks]
4. 
   Discuss three social or ethical concerns people have with EHR? [10 marks]

EHR Medical Systems

1. 
   Define an EHR system? [2 marks]
2. 
   Explain two ways an EHR system benefit society? [4 marks]
3. 
   Explain two of the reasons why EHR's are not yet widely used. [4 marks]
4. 
   Discuss three social or ethical concerns people have with EHR? [10 marks]

Telemedicine (Area of Impact Health) HL

1. 
   Define Telemedicine? [2 marks]
2. 
   Describe two of the technologies involved in telemedicine [4 marks]
3. 
   Explain two barriers to the use of telemedicine? [4 marks]
4. 
   Discuss three advantages of telemedicine. Evaluate your arguments[10 marks]