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Peter in the cloud of educationCloud computing in education at FINKI
Katerina ZdravkovaUniversity Sts Cyril and MethodiusFaculty of Computer Science and [email protected]
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Bansko, 26 - 31 August 2013
Contents
Introduction Milestones of cloud computing Cloud computing in education and in
research Peter’s fascination FINKI’s clouds Systems integration
Conclusion
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Who is Peter?
Young and ambitious student attracted by ICTs
Successful competitor at international informatics competitions
He is aware that: In the new hi-tech era it is more than ever
inevitable to learn and acquire new knowledge in order to survive and progress in the present-day world
The increased demand for learning entails that the educational process should have the most important role
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The challenge
Transformation of the educational system seems to be very slow
Any new technology introduced in education soon becomes obsolete and ineffective, often causing confusion among teachers and students, instead of offering better education
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Peter’s first contact with FINKI
His home school was similar to Plato’s Academia
Experience with MENDO
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13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
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August 2012, Peter’s enrolment
Enrolment coincided with BOI 2012 Will he be able to enroll? His colleague’s statement:
“While iKnow exists, you should not worry.”
eStudent Information System – iKnow
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Bansko, 26 - 31 August 2013
13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
Bansko, 26 - 31 August 2013
Peter’s first classes
He entered the amphitheatre trying to be closer to the blackboard
But, there was no blackboard there Teacher uncovered the whiteboard
and made a cable channels news’ presentation
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First brunch
First visit to the labs Computer’s local storage was almost
empty But, there were several Internet
browsers He twitted a short message with his
first impressions: “The Faculty I chose must be in the clouds”
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Peter’s research
What is cloud computing? Cloud computing and education Cloud computing and research
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Milestones of cloud computing Early 1960s, MIT: Compatible Time-Sharing
System (CTSS) Invented:
Multitasking Time-sharing
2006, Amazon Web Services Initial aim: to create a balanced triangle
between software, infrastructure and platform
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New devices haveaffected learning as well
e-Learning, m-Learning, s-Learning Cloud computing in education Key players: Amazon, Google, IBM,
Intel, Microsoft and Oracle
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Cloudy education
2004, North Carolina State University: Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) powered by Apache Software
Applications like Matlab, Maple, SAS, SPSS offered to more than 40000 students
Oracle: Sun Cloud 2009, IBM: Cloud Academy (ICA) Sun Cloud retired, Exalogic Elastic Cloud
and Exadata Database Machine were born Google Apps: Google Docs/ Drive, Google
Talk, Google Video and Google Sites
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Cloudy Learning Management Systems
BlackBoard/WebCT: xpLor Moodle + Amazon Web Services +
BitNami Cloud Hosting: BitNami Moodle 2.4
Cisco Networking Academy + Canvas: Cisco NetSpace
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Cloudy research
IBM and Google Cloud Computing University Initiative launched Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program
Massive cloud cluster Hadoop performed more than 120 million computing tasks
The mission accomplished: research and education of outstanding universities had enormously benefited from this program
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The transformation
Traditional blackboards Interactive whiteboards
Textbooks Digital contents Books Tablets, smartphones Internet cable connection Wireless
Internet Static E-learning 1.0 Dynamic E-
learning 0.2
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Peter’s new smartphone
A tool for ubiquitous access to:e-mailsFacebook profileInternet
Can he access something else?
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FINKI in Microsoft’s clouds
2012/13: more than 3000 students Partnership with Microsoft:
Office 365Microsoft Live accounts / FINKI Live
accounts Access to Microsoft software for
educational purposes Microsoft SkyDrive
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Peter’s fascination
Blockbuster movies Computer Animation Club Cloud solutions used:
File sharing: Adrive, FilesFINKI, Dropbox Asset management system: Tactic Version control management: GitHub,
BitBucket, Google Project Hosting and SVN Antivirus: Panda Cloud Antivirus
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Tactic and Bitbucket/Github
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Online communication
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Peter’s privacy concern
To join or not to join?
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FINKI in social media
Enrolment procedure on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FINKIedu
Staff on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/faculty-of-computer-science-and-engineering---skopje
Future diploma: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/finki-cse/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FINKI.ukim.mk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSEedu
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Systems integration
Central Authentication System (CAS) CAS functionalities currently provided only to FINKI
students and staff e-Student Information System iKnow
Provided to University students and staff e-Learning systems: Moodle, LE e-Testing system: eTest and cloudy e-Assesment
e-Assesment currently implemented in primary and secondary schools in Macedonia
Online testing and laboratory exercises system eLab
13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
Bansko, 26 - 31 August 2013
13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
Bansko, 26 - 31 August 2013
13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
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13th Workshop “Software Engineering and Reverse Engineering”
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FINKI’s HPC
High Performance Computing supercomputer: 84 servers
• Each server using 2 microprocessors (168 in total)• Each processor having 6 cores (1008 cores in
total)
2016 logical processors The blade servers are interconnected
through Infiniband 84 separate links
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The ambition
Simultaneous implementation of all services by thousands of FINKI users proved their scalability
The ambition: to successfully extend services from Faculty to University and in perspective from University to national level
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Cloud computing in education
Few years ago, cloud computing in education was “ante portas”
Nowadays, many cloud services have already become an ordinary solution
FINKI uses many software solutions and various platforms as a service
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Is the perspective so pink?
It can be Prerequisite: standardization To speed up important activities and
functions, human beings standardise them We live in standard rooms, houses and
cities, we transport using standard vehicles: cars, trains, boats or planes
But, we still learn in traditional classrooms with chalks and blackboards
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Inspiration for the paper
The intention to improve the learning process in line with new trends
It is not exactly Peter’s experience, but rather the teachers’ challenge to prove that education can enormously benefit from new technologies
The examples of recent modifications done at our Faculty are a significant contribution to education reconstruction and innovation
Students’ favourable feedback encourages us to go further
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Conclusion
Emerging technologies and plentiful opportunities that they trigger don’t let us standardize learning and education
Possibility to learn always, everywhere and by everyone makes standardization of the learning process easier said than done
We should try to make it possible
Thank you for your attention