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Online Services
Mind map: Online services
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Online Services
Communication
- Types
- Email, messaging, news groups, social networks, conferencing, blogs, vlogs.
- Uses
- Talking to friends on skype. Using social networking applications like Fcebook or Google+ to exchange information
- Benefits
- Instant responses to someone who is remote from you, at no additional cost to your broadband fees. Socialising
- Types
Real-time information
- Types
- Timetables, news, sport updates, weather reports, travel news.
- Uses
- Checking an airport website for estimated arrival times of flights
- Benefits
- Provides up-to-date information when picking people up from an airport. Companies can use real-time information about customers’ reactions to an advertisement to improve the effectiveness of the advert.
- Types
Commerce
- Types
- Banking, auctions, online sales and purchases, publishing
- Uses
- Selling something through a service such as ebay™ or Amazon ®
- Benefits
- Allows users to carry out transactions seamlessly (without the need to use physical money) and globally.
- Types
Government
- Types
- Tax returns, e-voting, applications for grants or benefits
- Uses
- Applying for your first provisional driving licence
- Benefits
- Saves time and is more convenient – saves you a visit to the Post Office and means can take your time filling in the form and can easily amend any errors.
- Types
Education
- Types
- Online learning, online training, manufacturers’ online tutorials
- Uses
- Using the Microsoft ® training package for Windows ® 7
- Benefits
- Allows you to do training from the comfort of your own computer and at your own pace.
- Types
VLE
- Types
- VLEs such as Moodle
- Uses
- Your school or college may use a VLE for you to access lecture notes and assignments, and for you to submit assignment work
- Benefits
- Cost effective for the school/college and allows the school/college to track the submission of learners’ work.
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