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World of Many Clouds
The first question will be asked is how can cloud computing enhance the learning experience? One way is by providing on-demand access to educational content, resources, and services, on any device, whenever and wherever teachers and students happen to be. The new world of cloud-based services combines powerful computing, networking, storage, management tools, and applications to make it easier than ever to bridge the in-school and online learning worlds with secure, on-demand services. With cloud services, educators can take advantage of an interconnected world of many clouds to support individual learning needs, expand access to digital content, and innovative cloud services into an integrated architecture that helps educators deliver highly secure, cloud-based services simplify operations, and reduce costs. Implementing a cloud solution means bringing together computing, network, and storage resources into an integrated platform for delivering IT services within and between data canters. Cloud computing can help us to create a platform for delivering cloud services to teachers, administrators, and students, and can also assist us to connect with other clouds and automate management tasks.
In this research work we are introducing our architecture of Cloud Computing for education and discuss the impact of our chosen architecture on learning.
We are presenting here and demonstrating the advantages and impact analysis of our proposed architecture.
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Dr. Wasan Mehdi was awarded Doctorate in Computer animation from the department of IRAC, University of Bedfordshire in Dec 2013. Her research interests include computer animation, Multimedia information, security and cloud computing. Wasan is an author to three papers and two journals published in various conferences and several oral and digital recording presentations at national and local conferences. Prior to awarding the PhD program, Wasan worked as a classroom supervisor and thereafter in a senior IT support role. She has been consulted on a variety of projects involving qualitative and quantitative analysis. This was to benefit the use of animation as a useful tool in education and to allow the integration of animation in learning. In addition to this, it introduced the latest advanced technologies especially, in the field of animations. It also integrated digital media and cloud computing into teaching and learning platforms in order to advance education for learners. From this work, she developed an interest in how our education is transforming and how it effectively reaches sustainable changes within a challenging and turbulent environment. She is currently working on writing different articles and papers; this is on cloud computing based education and explores the benefits and effects. It also looks at the environmental context implementation of inter professional models of practice.
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Mehdi, W. A Proposed Architecture of Cloud Computing for Teaching and Education. GSTF J Comput 4, 12 (2015). https://doi.org/10.7603/s40601-014-0012-x
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