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The Contribution of Cloud Computing in Intelligent Education

Prepared by: TAROUB AHMED SA’ED

AL-QUDS OPEN UNIVERSITY

The Second International Conference for Learning and Teaching

in the Digital World \ Smart Learning

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OUTLINES

Introduction

Cloud Foundation

Cloud Provider

Cloud Computing Principle

Green Cloud Computing

Implementation Of Cloud Computing In Education

Benefits Of Implementing Cloud Technologies

Conclusion



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Introduction

One of the biggest challenges that the government faces in providingeducation is the lack of infrastructure and if available then maintenance ofthat infrastructure and other issue is procuring and maintaining a wide rangeof hardware and software require ample, ongoing investment and the skills tosupport them.

The key attributes that distinguish cloud computing from conventional computing are:

• Compute and storage functions are abstracted and offered as services.

• Services are built on a massively scalable infrastructure.

• Services are delivered on demand through dynamic, flexibly configurable resources.

• Services are easily purchased and billed by consumption.

• Resources are shared among multiple users (multi-tenancy).

• Services are accessible over the Internet or internal network by any device.



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Cloud Foundation

Cloud computing is receiving a great deal of attention, both in publicationsand among users, from individuals at home to the governments. Yet it is notalways clearly defined. Cloud computing is a subscription-based servicewhere you can obtain networked storage space and computer resources. Oneway to think of cloud computing is to consider your experience with email.Your email client, if it is Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, and so on, takes care ofhousing all of the hardware and software necessary to support your personalemail account. When you want to access your email, you open your webbrowser, go to the email client, and log in. The most important part of theequation is having internet access. Your email is not housed on your physicalcomputer; you access it through an internet connection, and you can access itanywhere.



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Cloud Provider Cloud computing needs cloud providers. When you choose a provider,compare your needs to the cloud services available. The needs of the privatecloud vary depending on how you intend to use space and resourcesassociated with the cloud. If it would be personal home use, you will need adifferent type cloud provider than if you will be using the cloud for business.Keep in mind that your cloud provider will be pay-as-you-go, meaning that ifyour technological needs change at any point you can purchase more storagespace (or less for that matter) from your cloud provider.

Cloud computing services are generally classified into three separatecategories or levels: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).



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Cloud computing can mainly provide three cloud services: storage as aservice, processing as a service and software as a service. In a storageservice, the majority of processing occurs at the user’s PC (the client) and themajority of storage is in the cloud. The transmission and switching networktransports the user’s files between the data center and the user. With aprocessing service, the user’s computer processes only short tasks and thecloud processes large computationally intensive tasks. Long-term storage ofdata is on the user’s computer and transport is required to transfer the filesrelevant to each large task. In a software service, processing and storage areperformed in the cloud. Transport is required for all tasks to enabletransmission of commands to the cloud and to return the results (Saurabh&Rajkumar, ).


Public cloud

Cloud servicesPublic internet

EnterpriseEnterprise1

Enterprise2

Hybrid cloud- combining a private

and public cloud

private cloud in

Enterprise

Public , Private And Hybrid Cloud deployment example (Lewis, 2010)



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Green” has become a popular term for describing things that are good for theenvironment, generally healthful and, more recently, economically sensible.“Going Green” implies reducing your energy use and pollution footprint.

Green Computing, or Green IT, is the practice of the implementation ofpolicies and procedures that will improve the efficiency of computingresources in such a way to reduce energy consumption and environmentalimpact of their use. As High Performance Computing is becoming popular incommercial and consumer IT applications, it needs the ability to gain rapidand scalable access to high end computing capabilities.



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Green cloud computing

HPC CLOUD COMPUTING

INCREASE IN ENERGY

CONSUMTION

HIGH ENERGY COST HIGH CARBON EMISSIONLOW PROFIT

Need For Energy Efficient

SolutionTo Address High Increase in

Energy Consumption

Cloud provider

+ Environment

Growing demand

Needs access to high end

computing capabilities

From both perspectives

Not good for Cloud provider Not good for Environment

Leading to

Green Computing in Clouds (Abdulaziz, 2012).



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The following four key factors are the features that have enabled the Cloud computing to lower energy usage and carbon emissions from ICT. Due to these Cloud features, organizations can reduce carbon emissions by at least 30% per user by moving their applications to the Cloud. These savings are driven by the high efficiency of large scale Cloud data centers (Nidhi k. & Inderveer Ch. 2012).

• Dynamic Provisioning….

• Multi-tenancy….

• Server Utilization….

• Datacenter Efficiency….



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Implementation of Cloud Computing in Education

When discussing the applications of cloud computing technology, it isimportant to mention its three most important categories: SaaS, PaaS andlaaS. In education, each of these three models plays an important role ingeneral education transformation. By storing complex IT infrastructure onremote servers, cloud vendors make advanced computing tools available toinstitutions, companies or organizations at low prices, which is whatcontributed to a rapid adoption of these services. Additionally, newprovisioning models have triggered proliferation of various cost-efficientbusiness intelligence software programs, collaborative platforms and webapplications, the adoption of which is often seen as a major form ofinnovation in different settings, including education.



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Microsoft for Education

Microsoft is one of the companies whose services have been reformingeducation for more than two decades. The Microsoft’s cloud is currentlyavailable to the educational institutions in the following forms: Office 365 forEducation (formerly Microsoft live@edu), Business Productivity Online Suite(BPOS), Exchange Hosted Services, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online andOffice Web Apps) Microsoft, 2010(.



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Google Apps for Education

Google Apps for Education is a widely-used platform for outsourcing freeweb-based email, calendar and documents for collaborative study. Google hasinitiated two important campaigns for introducing improvements in theeducation sector.

Chromebooks for Education is one of the most important Google’s projectsaimed at education innovation. Malaysian Ministry of Education has recentlyjoined the project and introduced 4G high-speed internet access andSamsung Chromebooks in 10,000 national schools in 2013.

Another important Google’s initiative is Tablets with Google Play forEducation, which enable educators to smoothly implement the latesttechnology solutions into classrooms and make useful apps available to theirstudents) Google, 2010(.



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AWS in Education

Amazon’s AWS cloud(Amazon Web Services ) [Amazon, 2010]: is aneducation-friendly set of services that provides cost-efficient solutions touniversities, community colleges, ...etc. AWS users have at their disposalcomputing and storage resources that contribute to a creation of flexible ITinfrastructure in these institutions.

The global community of AWS education services has reached the number of2,400 schools in 2013 (Crucial, 2014).



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Benefits of implementing cloud technologies

The Benefits of implementing cloud technologies can be stated as follows(Kiran Yadav, 2014):

• Personalized Learning: Cloud computing affords opportunities for greaterstudent choice in learning. Using an Internet-connected device, studentscan access a wide array of resources and software tools that suit theirlearning styles and interests.

• Reduced Costs: Cloud-based services can help institutes reduce costs andaccelerate the use of new technologies to meet evolving educationalneeds. Students can use office applications for free without having topurchase, install and keep these applications up to date on theircomputers. It also provides the facility of Pay per use for someapplications.



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Benefits of implementing cloud technologies

• Accessibility: Availability of the services is the most important and desiredby the user using the education cloud.24 X7 is the availability that isneeded by this system without failure. From anywhere one can login andaccess the information.

• No Extra Infrastructure: Colleges and governments are now free to focuson their goals that is making more research facilities available to thestudents and making the environment global in spite wasting time onworrying about the buildings, labs, teachers etc.

• Go Green: Education cloud will surely reduce the carbon footprint.

• User Friendly: This new facility is user friendly and no need to worry aboutthe complexity. It is easy to understand and easy to operate.



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CONCLUSION

In the era of “Big data”, cloud computing has great role in improving quality andenormous educational content available for students and research scholars.Educational institutions throughout the World have become highly dependent oninformation technology to service their business requirements. The success and highreturn on investment (ROI) of cloud infrastructure vests in the hands of biggerorganizations and the public sector in particular. In spite of all risks, we are thereforefacing a future where the majority of educational services will be hosted in the cloudand institutions no longer host their own data centers with expensive hardware,power bills, staff salaries and computing resources which are rarely fully utilized.

The successful applications of cloud computing models at educational institutionshave been evaluated only to a limited degree. The cloud computing in education willresolve not only from an academic point of view, but also particularly on a reductionof cost, effective communication, security, privacy, providing flexibility andaccessibility.

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