The booming of internet based courses or online courses has come up with its own unsolved questions which the traditional approach of training already defended; that is how can one knows the online course participant is really doing him/herself or cheating.Here is an article from BBC How do you stop online students cheating?
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Social Media:to collect facebook likes and make money!!
'Click this if you hate cancer'
'Click this picture and see what happens'
'Like if you can see tiger'
'Comment and see what happens' and the likes.
All such zingers seems genuine but designed to be virals that scam likes and comments which will be converted into cashes.
Likes from facebook are becoming currency of the social networking sites. How ?
If a facebook page is able to harvest 100,000 likes/comments; then it will be sold for 200 U.S.D. to a business firm that want to fake as having many viewers. Just simply, the same page detail will be changed into a desired one according to buyer interest and presented to competitions for win. This is another form of cybercrime that faced social media through virals to scam likes. Watch out.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-spam-scam-secret-revealed.html
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Social media becoming tool for robbery .
Facebook stalked approach by Nigerian criminal ended with a murder of a 24 -year-old young, beautiful model living there on July 21,2012. Cynthia Oskogu had been chatting with a man , Echezona Nwabufor, for long after he friended her on facebook disguising himself as a Lagos University student and wanted to help her meet his business associates to make her fashion boutique more profitable. He offered her a plane ticket from Abuja to Lagos and a hotel accommodation thinking that she would come with jewelries and cashes. She accepted his offer, travelled to Lagos, taken to the hotel far from town, and finally killed in brutal ways after sexually abused. The suspect and his collaborate caught by hotel CCTV and also their driver and "fence"-a man who usually sold robed goods are apprehended and will be tried in court on November 5,2012 just a month after she was laid to rest.R.I.P. This is ticking alarm to others who will be a victim of such tricky approach via social media. Attention for all of us.
A life saving hospital turned in to life losing arena.
Patients died inside one of the Taiwanese hospitals after tragic fire accident allegedly caught by another suspect and survivor who was admitted in the same hospital for cancer treatment. It is a time now to raise fire safety questions of our own hospitals which will not be exceptional to suffer from such deadly events. Here is CNN link about it&gt;</span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/world/asia/taiwan-hospital-fire/index