Towards Cloud Computing Services for Higher Educational Institutions: Concepts & Literature Review

Abstract

Cloud computing paradigm has been recognized recently as key enabling efficient and effective technological services that will reshape the delivery and support of the educational services. In this paper, we review the literature on cloud computing adoption by Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) that were published during the period 2009 -2014. The motivation was to identify the main frameworks, models and architectures that were proposed for establishing cloud computing services inside HEIs. Furthermore, the review researched standard definitions and main characteristics, offered services and delivered models of cloud computing technology. It identified 133 papers that were published during the last six years and were focused on cloud computing adoption frameworks, models and architectures for HEIs. The review also provides a landscape of the research in this area and draws attention for more investigation in this field towards developing a comprehensive unified framework for the adoption of cloud computing services in HEIs.

Factors influencing cloud computing adoption in higher education institution

“…At this layer, the developer may focus on the innovation rather than aware of infrastructure problems. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) considered as a foundation level for the cloud computing platforms that managed by customers [7,9,10].…”

“…Hybrid can be described as a mixture of two different deployment models. The community model is a public cloud that suitable for certain targeted groups of organizations that share the same objectives [9,10]. As one of emerging technology, cloud computing has rapidly spread in academic institutions.…”

Migration of government records from on-premises to cloud computing storage in South Africa

“…SaaS allows the client to access software that is hosted in the environment of a service provider (Low 2012). Asaeed and Saleh (2015) and the Government of South Australia (2015) suggest that organisations can choose one of the deployment models to deploy their private cloud, community cloud, public cloud or hybrid cloud. Sarkar and Kumar (2016) define a private cloud as one that is dedicated to organisations where computing infrastructure cannot be shared.…”

“…A hybrid cloud model is an amalgamation of public and private cloud models where some resources are hosted and controlled externally by a third party, while some resources are used only by the organisation (Asaeed & Saleh 2015). According to Bhandari et al (2016), a hybrid model separates non-critical activities that are performed in the public cloud from critical activities that are performed in the private cloud.…”

The Ability of implementing Cloud Computing in Higher Education - KRG

“…UK had utilized technology of Scantron sheets which allows the students to answer exams or test or quizzes as form of multiple choice questions ,which can be access to by both the lectures and students through the CC technology, which are accurate, quick and can be gotten to any place and at whatever time using the web [12]. UK additionally had it initially Cloud school on systems some of High Schools [13].…”