Cloud Computing in Higher Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
P. Sasikala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Status

Cloud Computing promises novel and valuable capabilities for computer users and is explored in all possible areas of information technology dependant fields. However, the literature suffers from hype and divergent definitions and viewpoints. Cloud powered higher education can gain significant flexibility and agility. Higher education policy makers must assume activist roles in the shift towards cloud computing. Classroom experiences show it is a better tool for teaching and collaboration. As it is an emerging service technology, there is a need for standardization of services and customized implementation. Its evolution can change the facets of rural education. It is important as a possible means of driving down the capital and total costs of IT. This paper examines and discusses the concept of Cloud Computing from the perspectives of diverse technologists, cloud standards, services available today, the status of cloud particularly in higher education, and future implications.

Cloud Computing in Higher Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 1672-1685
Author(s):  
P. Sasikala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Status

Cloud Computing promises novel and valuable capabilities for computer users and is explored in all possible areas of information technology dependant fields. However, the literature suffers from hype and divergent definitions and viewpoints. Cloud powered higher education can gain significant flexibility and agility. Higher education policy makers must assume activist roles in the shift towards cloud computing. Classroom experiences show it is a better tool for teaching and collaboration. As it is an emerging service technology, there is a need for standardization of services and customized implementation. Its evolution can change the facets of rural education. It is important as a possible means of driving down the capital and total costs of IT. This paper examines and discusses the concept of Cloud Computing from the perspectives of diverse technologists, cloud standards, services available today, the status of cloud particularly in higher education, and future implications.

Cloud Computing in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Sasikala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Status

Cloud Computing promises novel and valuable capabilities for computer users and is explored in all possible areas of information technology dependant fields. However, the literature suffers from hype and divergent definitions and viewpoints. Cloud powered higher education can gain significant flexibility and agility. Higher education policy makers must assume activist roles in the shift towards cloud computing. Classroom experiences show it is a better tool for teaching and collaboration. As it is an emerging service technology, there is a need for standardization of services and customized implementation. Its evolution can change the facets of rural education. It is important as a possible means of driving down the capital and total costs of IT. This paper examines and discusses the concept of Cloud Computing from the perspectives of diverse technologists, cloud standards, services available today, the status of cloud particularly in higher education, and future implications.

scholarly journals What about Provincial Institutions in Higher Education Policy in India?

2018 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Anamika Srivastava ◽  
Nandita Koshal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers

In this article, we take stock of provincial higher education institutions in India, which—advertently or not—have not yet caught the attention of policy makers. However, these institutions employ the majority of the teachers and cater to the needs of the majority of students in the country.

Scholarship and Supercomplexity

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-282
Author(s):  
Kerri-Lee Krause
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education Environment

In this chapter, links between the constructs of scholarship and supercomplexity in higher education are examined, along with policy implications. Boyer's holistic, joined-up conceptualization of scholarship is recognised as seminal, yet in many cases, application of his work has led to fragmentation of academic work in an already-fractured, supercomplex higher education environment. The scene is set by considering a range of dimensions of the scholarship construct within higher education. Particular emphasis is placed on scholarship as it relates to academic roles and identities. In this section, account is also taken of the challenges encountered by faculty, managers, and policy-makers alike in drawing connections and distinctions between scholarship and research in academic work. Consideration then shifts to implications for higher education policy and policy-makers at the macro – national and international, meso-institutional, and micro-departmental and individual levels.

scholarly journals Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

2020 ◽  
pp. 003452372092067
Author(s):  
Karen Smith ◽  
Scott Fernie ◽  
Nick Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Times ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research And Policy

The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy makers and research evidence are not straightforward. In this article, we use a theoretical lens of time, Adams’ Timescapes, to explore this relationship and better understand why the research and policy worlds are frequently described as divided. Drawing on in-depth interviews with higher education researchers, policy makers and research funders, we show how research and policy have different interpretations of time. We discuss the Timeframes, or lengths, of work and career, the Temporality, or complexity, of ‘evidence’, of networks and relationships, and the importance of elements such as Timing, or synchronisation, and Tempo, or pace. We conclude that policy makers and higher education researchers may be better able to make sense of the problematic nature of aligning their concerns, interests and actions through understanding different Timescapes.

Equitable Access to Higher Education: An Analysis of India’s National Education Policy (2020) in a Post-Pandemic World

2021 ◽  
pp. 232200582110424
Author(s):  
Paramita DasGupta ◽  
Saurya Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Blind Spots

Of the various less-than-comfortable narrative strands of the status quo that the COVID-19 pandemic has succeeded in showing up in stark relief—our rather troubling (if somewhat half-hearted) complacence about the systemic blind-spots that continue to colour the prevailing culture of a clearly inequitable higher education policy-framework—easily features among the most worrying, and thus, among those precise pulse-points that carry tremendous potential to help build the post-pandemic reset better, stronger and palpably fairer.1 In this piece, the authors endeavour to elaborate upon this and supplement the same with a brief analysis of India’s year-old National Education Policy, 20202—and how this nation (India) of more than 1.3 billion,3 supposedly poised on the cusp of a massive self-reinvention—is attempting to embark upon this journey.

scholarly journals What about Provincial Institutions in Higher Education Policy in India?

2018 ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Anamika Srivastava ◽  
Nandita Koshal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers

In this article, we take stock of provincial higher education institutions in India, which—advertently or not—have not yet caught the attention of policy makers. However, these institutions employ the majority of the teachers and cater to the needs of the majority of students in the country.

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