Effective Use of Cloud Computing Services in Education

Abstract

In this research, we provide an overview of the cloud computing model and discuss its applications for collaboration between academic institutions. Cloud computing is considered a typical paradigm that provides suitable, efficient network login to an appropriate pool of computing resources which can be provided and released with just nominal assiduity and service providers reciprocity. However, many organizations understand cloud computing in different ways. We briefly analyse the cloud computing applications in this research, and describe some current and accomplished educational and research products. Then, we go on to evaluate the successful applications of cloud computing models at educational institutions, and the different ways to implement cloud computing. Finally, we present different education applications for education infrastructures which are implemented for academic use.

Emerging Business Models in Education Provisioning: A Case Study on Providing Learning Support as Education-as-a-Service

“…Some authors also mention schools and colleges [2,18], others focus on schools only as teaching customers [16]. Another customer segment are researchers [2,3,6,9,[19][20][21][22][23]. Each of these customer segments has its own requirements and the offered service should be adapted to each of them.…”

“…and storage [1-3, 15, 22], software/application resources [2,5], and support staff [1]. Additionally, for this special kind of provider, curricula and teaching resources are further key resources [1,2,9,10]. Value Proposition: The most mentioned value in all analyzed articles is that using EaaS is less expensive than hosting and maintaining the system in-house [1-7, 9, 10, 15-17, 19-24].…”

“…However, he does not describe in detail the meaning of "educational services". For Alshuwaier, Alshwaier and Areshey [2] and Alshuwaier, Alshwaier and Areshey [9], an EaaS provider delivers programs, computer lab content and supporting services. Shunye, Dayong and Zijuan [10] specify these "supporting services" by calling them teaching resources that can be lectures, reference documents, video, audio, etc.…”

Cloud Computing Based E-Learning

“…The cloud computing has major deployment models such as Private, Public and Hybrid, but has a different characteristics such as Client-Server Model, Grid Computing, Fog Computing, peer-to-peer computing. All the cloud deployment models offer different services such as Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) [10].…”