The Education Value Of Cloud Computing

Katzan, Harry

doi:10.19030/cier.v3i7.219

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“…HEIs are now moving to the cloud for a number of reasons [27], especially for economic purposes [30] [31]. In the context of education, Katzan [32] found that CC balances both economies of scale and control, providing a lower total cost of ownership. This is heavily linked to the quality of CC, which influences HEIs' adoptive decision.…”

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Cloud Computing at a Cross Road: Quality and Risks in Higher Education

Ali¹

2019

AIT

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The key determinants of cloud computing provide a convincing argument for HEIs and its stakeholders to adopt the innovation. These benefits reflect the essential quality characteristics of the cloud, such as Broad network Access; Measured Service; On-demand Self-Service; Rapid Elasticity; and Resource Pooling. However, there are also risks associated with the cloud, leading to non-adoption, such as Confidence, Privacy, Security, Surety and Trust. Understanding the impact of these factors can support multiple stakeholders, such as students, lecturers, senior managers and admins in their adoptive decision of CC in their respected institutions. Using the Multiview 3 (MV3) methodology, a research model was proposed to explore the key qualities and risks that determine the adoption or non-adoption of CC by UK HEIs from multiple perspectives. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted on 32 University stakeholders across 2 UK Universities. The findings suggest that security, privacy and trust are the key determinants to non-adoption as participants felt that the cloud cannot fully guarantee the safeguarding of sensitive information. Determinants to cloud adoption include improving relationships between students and teachers via collaborative tools, in addition to proposing cloud apps for mobile devices for accessing virtual learning materials and email securely off-campus. In conclusion, University stakeholders are still at a crossroad when it comes to cloud adoption, but future advances of the cloud may help to steer their decision to adopt this innovative technology given its overwhelming potential.

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Cloud Computing at a Cross Road: Quality and Risks in Higher Education

Ali¹

2019

AIT

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“…Cloud Computing is being used by educational institutions as a platform for offering modern and up-todate IT resources to students [8,9]. This is particularly important in developing countries and for meeting the limited budgets that institutions often have as a result of the current economic turmoil [10,11,12,13].…”

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Optimising resource costs of cloud computing for education

Koch

Assunção

Cardonha

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Future Generation Computer Systems

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International audienceThere is a growing interest around the utilisation of cloud computing in education. As organisations involved in the area typically face severe budget restrictions, there is a need for cost optimisation mechanisms that explore unique features of digital learning environments. In this work, we introduce a method based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation that considers heterogeneity of IT infrastructure in order to devise resource allocation plans that maximise platform utilisation for educational environments. We performed experiments using modelled datasets from real digital teaching solutions and obtained cost reductions of up to 30%, compared with conservative resource allocation strategies

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“…An important feature of education cloud resources is [1]: it should be able to perceive the dynamic changes of the internal I external environment, and carry out the static adjustments and dynamic evolution with this change according to the function, performance or reliability index, so that the system has high user satisfaction as far as possible. That is to say education cloud software is not in accordance with a clear demand for top-down development, it will change with the environment, the continuous development and evolution.…”

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“…But in front of the new technology application, the most traditional CIS mode gradually exposed many problems: (1) service to disperse, difficult to maintain. Data dispersion management can cause the data repetition and redundancy.…”

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The context-aware and collaboration of education Cloud resources

Liu

Xiusi

Liu

2014

2014 9th International Conference on Computer Science &Amp; Education

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Description and acquisition of education cloud resources context-aware information is in order to make that the different resource entity has a reasonable understanding of the perceived context in an open environment. This paper presents a context-aware architecture of education Cloud resources based on ontology-aware, and describes the model and mechanism of component entities of on-demand aggregation and dynamic collaborative evolution in this framework. The effectiveness of the proposed framework and cooperative model has been proved through the actual data and a large number of experiments.

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The Education Value Of Cloud Computing

Cited by 23 publications

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Cloud Computing at a Cross Road: Quality and Risks in Higher Education

Cloud Computing at a Cross Road: Quality and Risks in Higher Education

Optimising resource costs of cloud computing for education

The context-aware and collaboration of education Cloud resources

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