Cloud computing for teaching and learning: strategies for design and implementation / Lee Chao, editor.p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: "This book provides the latest information about cloud development and cloud applications in teaching and learning, including empirical research findings in these areas for professionals and researchers working in the field of e-learning who want to implement teaching and learning with cloud computing"--Provided by publisher.
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INTRODUCTIONThe emergence of Cloud Computing as a topic of mass market interest is beginning to be matched by the emergence of the subject in its own right in Higher Education. In 2009, numerous departments of Computer Science, Informatics, and so forth could readily claim to be teaching students about myriad aspects of the subject that they would deem inherently relevant to Cloud, from data structures and algorithms, through object oriented programming, to information retrieval. However, there was relatively little by way of teaching that was geared entirely to Cloud Computing per se. Our view was that it would be necessary to begin by
Lee Gillam University of Surrey, UK
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