REVIEWS OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EDUCATION: SERVICES AND BENEFITS

Cloud computing has become popular in the academic sector and has attracted the attention of academe, more specifically instructor and student. In this paper, the author reviews the cloud computing technology used in education and impact of the services on student learning and various educational potential of cloud-based tools and services for exploitation in teaching and learning are studied

Power Consumption and Carbon Emission Equivalent for Virtualized Resources – An Analysis: Virtual Machine and Container Analysis for Greener Data Center

The International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed that the worldwide energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) situation has hit a historic high of 33.1 Giga tonnes (Gt) of CO2. 85% of the rise in emissions was due to China, India, and the United States. The increase in emissions in India was 4.8%, or 105 Mega tonnes (Mt) of CO2, with the increase in emissions being evenly distributed across the transportation and industrial sectors, according to Beloglazov et al (2011). Environmental contamination brought on by carbon emissions is harmful to the environment. As a result, there is an urgent need for the IT sectors to develop effective and efficient technology to eliminate such carbon emissions. The primary focus is on lowering carbon emissions due to widespread awareness of the issue

FORGE: An eLearning Framework for Remote Laboratory Experimentation on FIRE Testbed Infrastructure

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) initiative provides educators and learners in higher education with access to world-class FIRE testbed infrastructure. FORGE supports experimentally driven research in an eLearning environment by complementing traditional classroom and online courses with interactive remote laboratory experiments. The project has achieved its objectives by defining and implementing a framework called FORGEBox. This framework offers the methodology, environment, tools and resources to support the creation of HTML-based online educational material capable accessing virtualized and physical FIRE testbed infrastruc- ture easily. FORGEBox also captures valuable quantitative and qualitative learning analytic information using questionnaires and Learning Analytics that can help optimise and support student learning. To date, FORGE has produced courses covering a wide range of networking and communication domains. These are freely available from FORGEBox.eu and have resulted in over 24,000 experiments undertaken by more than 1,800 students across 10 countries worldwide. This work has shown that the use of remote high- performance testbed facilities for hands-on remote experimentation can have a valuable impact on the learning experience for both educators and learners. Additionally, certain challenges in developing FIRE-based courseware have been identified, which has led to a set of recommendations in order to support the use of FIRE facilities for teaching and learning purposes

HARNESSING CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-LEARNING SERVICES

This paper introduces an innovative model for harnessing cloud computing infrastructure within an e-learning ecosystem. The main goal was to design a scalable, reliable and secure IT environment that provides a plethora of e-learning services and seamless integration of the heterogeneous e-learning components through IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud service models. The e-learning services are tailored to foster courses for IT engineers in the areas of mobile technologies, social computing, Internet of Things and big data. The model was implemented and evaluated in the e-learning ecosystem of the E-business Lab, University of Belgrade

Impact of Cloud Computing in E-Learning: A Study

Objectives: Increase in the demand of e-learning initiate the need of cloud based e-learning. Review of all cloud based e-learning systems is provided which can be used to develop better e-learning systems. Method/Analysis: E-learning is less steep and easy way to study and discover but still due to need of lot of IT capabilities and infrastructure it is still not so famous in India, with the exploit of cloud computing it can be made more accessible and constructive. A wide survey has been carrying out with more than sixty papers. Each paper was studied in detail and their shortcomings were analysed to give a better idea what to do in future. Findings: It was pragmatic that e-learning solutions are several but cloud based solutions have many shortcomings like sanctuary, contents, services etc. which needs to be addressed. Improvement: While a lot of papers have been studied but still additional papers can be consider and a system can be created in future based on the interpretation of the systems

Collaborative tools: computer science students' skills versus software industry needs

Software companies encourage and further the use of collaborative tools and skills at the workplace in pursuit of the benefits of their use: they improve communication, productivity and efficiency, and competitiveness. Besides, undergraduate and graduate software engineering computing curricula recommend subjects related to effective cooperative working and group learning. In order to align industry needs and curricula recommendations, universities should provide students with the collaborative knowledge and skills that they will require on the labour market once they finish their degrees. In this scenario, we asked three questions: Are collaborative tools beneficial to software projects? Is it easier for students with knowledge and skills of collaborative tools to find a job? Do enterprises use collaborative tools as a marketing strategy for the recruitment process or are they really empowering their employees to use collaborative tools? This paper explores these questions. We devised a survey addressing the above questions, which was administered to 86 recent computer science graduates. We applied statistical techniques to analyse the responses. From the data gathered during the survey, we conclude that the expected benefits of the use of collaborative tools are in fact corroborated, students skilled in the use of collaborative tools do find it easier to get jobs and companies are not only looking for people with collaborative skills but also use collaborative tools in their routine work processes

A PLATFORM FOR A SMART LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

In this paper, a modular platform which provides student services for smart educational environment is described. The platform represents a point of mutual integration of various services, such as hosting platform for students’ projects, platform for integrating SMS service with students’ web applications, Internet of Things platform which enables acquiring data from sensors distributed within the University building and controlling various actuators. Platform is deployed as a part of Smart Learning environment. It is integrated with single sign on service and it uses CAS and Oauth2. REST API is also provided. PHP Symfony framework, relational and non-relational databases are used for deploying the platform. The platform was evaluated and tested

NIGEDU CLOUD: Model of a National e-Education Cloud for Developing Countries.

To achieve global competitiveness, governments in developing countries are evolving and implementing information technology policies, to enable their countries participate in the current ICT revolving. One barrier to attaining the education objectives of the policies is inadequate national ICT infrastructure and service. The inadequate of ICT infrastructure and service is attributed to inadequate government funding, which in turn becomes difficult for education institutions to own and use sophisticated ICT facilities. In spite of inadequate funding, the gap can be reduced if education institutions in developing countries have access to ICT infrastructure available in developed countries

University Virtual Learning in Covid Times

Online training is demanded in the ubiquitous society we live in, and this is especially true if we consider the current situation at universities due to the Government issuing a state of alarm decree which requests all citizens to remain at home. The goal of this study is to determine the opinion of university students from different Spanish campuses on e-learning platforms, by the means of a descriptive and correlational study design, with N = 431. The results reveal that there is still a long road ahead to ensure that these tools work optimally to enable professors to fully exert their teaching profession. We can conclude that the online teaching system needs to be improved regarding the technical service that the university offers