Cloud Computing Adoption in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Cloud computing (CC) is a recently developed computing paradigm that can be utilized to deliver everything-as-a-service to various businesses. In higher education institutions (HEIs), CC is rapidly being deployed and becoming an integral part of institution experience. CC adoption in HEIs is accompanied by numerous scientific contributions that address the topic from different perspectives. A systematic review of these heterogeneous contributions, which provide a coherent taxonomy, can be considered interesting for HEIs to identify opportunities to use CC in its own context. Therefore, this systematic literature review aims to analyze existing research on adopting and using CC in HEIs, review background research to develop a coherent taxonomy and provide a landscape for future research on CC in HEIs. The outcomes of this paper include a coherent taxonomy and an overview of the basic characteristics of this emerging field in terms of motivation and barriers of adopting CC in HEIs, existing individual and organizational theoretical models to understand the future requirements for extensively adopting and using CC in HEIs, and factors that influence the adoption of CC in HEIs at individual and organizational levels. Considerable information is available in relation to adopting and using CC in HEIs. This review will enhance this information by offering an in-depth analysis of the existing data to bridge any gap and expand on existing literature.

A Multi-Analytical Approach to Predict the Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption in Higher Education Institutions

“…This number increased by 10% between 2011 and 2012, and the growth is estimated to increase in the next few years. Besides, the International Data Corporation stated that the industrial field, including the education sector, will witness an increase of $210 billion or about 23.8% in the amount of CC by 2019; hence, there will be an increase rate of 22.5% in five consecutive years to become $370 billion by 2022 [3]. It has been noted that cloud platforms, as well as ecosystems, will function as the launchpad for the drastic rise in the digital innovation pace and scale in the next five years.…”

“…Besides, most of the prior studies have primarily focused on CC technology, costs, applications, security, and benefits in small and medium organizations [30]. However, a limited number of studies have focused on CC adoption and its usage in HEIs [3]. Furthermore, several studies have looked at CC from different perspectives in various developing countries such as sub-Saharan Africa [30][31][32], Malaysia [33,34], and Saudi Arabia [18,35,36].…”

“…Even though a substantial amount of consideration is given to the CC, few studies have been carried out to identify the influential factors in adopting CC in HEIs from the perspective of decision-makers [3,30]. Meanwhile, in spite of the efficiency and usefulness of advanced artificial neural networks (ANN) as a soft computing technique in identifying and ranking determinants in technology adoption [42], application of this technique in the context of CC remains mainly unexplored, especially in education atmosphere.…”

Crisis Informatics in the Context of Social Media Crisis Communication: Theoretical Models, Taxonomy, and Open Issues

“…A systematic literature review (SLR) approach was adopted to identify the development of existing theoretical models in the field of social media crisis communication and management. Several studies have conducted SLR [47]- [51] in various research fields. Approaches used in conducting an SLR have been reported in various studies.…”

“…[50] on the other hand collapsed most of the later stages into a title and abstract scanning, and full-text reading while the inclusion and exclusion criteria are applied simultaneously. Recently, [51] added a reporting stage as part of the SLR activities. In this study, the systematic review is divided into five major steps as presented linearly but was practically conducted in an iterative manner [49].…”