Cloud Computing and Teaching

Ever since its inception web has been a veritable resource for teaching community. In its early stages when it was popularly known as Internet academic community was using for communication, community setting and file transfer purposes. With the advent of web technologies and more recently of services such as online docs, wiki and many more the usefulness of web has increased in the context of teaching. There are many examples where in people have been using web tools such blog to conduct courses online or supplement their classroom teaching.

The current trend towards cloud computing is expected to give further boost in this direction making web a even more useful resource for teaching. The cloud computing promises to make web the home of all computing resources and allow user to avail on retail basis. This approach which is already revolutionizing the business world has similar potential to transform teaching. There are already examples where in a teacher has combined cloud resources in creative manner to offer course on the web. As in the case of business, the limits are imposed only our imagination

Cloud Technologies: What are they?

Cloud Technologies for Education: A Preamble

Cloud computing is a compelling paradigm with immense potential for array of practical applications. The model is expected make computing needs available via web on retail basis and is called cloud computing. Cloud computing intends to make the Internet the ultimate home of all computing resources- storage, computations, applications and allow end user to available them in quantities of her choice, location of their preferences, for duration of their liking. In other world web become the provision store for all your computing needs.

Cloud Technologies for Educaton: A Preamble

Periodically , technological advances have changed the pace and shape of every human endeavor. Education is no exception. The process of Education has been radically affected and hugely benefited by continuously changing technological advances. For instance, the invention of printing press and the consequent ability to produce books in large numbers created new way of organizing education and determined the structure of university. The ability of network technologies to collect data from anywhere on the net and their ability to deliver the same anywhere on the network has tremendous potential in augmenting the educational or teaching process.Efforts by various agencies both business and otherwise have created wealth of resources on the web that can be exploited for transforming teaching process. Today web has become a blackboard. Web's basic value proposition is connectivity and content, Both of these values have direct implications and immediate uses in teaching. Connectivity allows a teacher to get connected to and retain connections with learners beyond the walls for traditional class rooms. Content of web has an enriching impact and true potential for transforming entire teaching experience. Content on the web can used directly, customised to meet one's class needs or can be augmented. In effect we have today all the resources on the web for successful practice of web-based teaching of e-learning. In this blog paper we present our experience in using cloud Technologies technologies in teaching.

What are cloud technologies?