Cloud Computing for Teaching Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 2267-2284
Author(s):  
Robab Saadatdoost ◽  
Alex Tze Hiang Sim ◽  
Hosein Jafarkarimi ◽  
Jee Mei Hee ◽  
Leila Saadatdoost
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Impact

Recently researchers have shown an increased interest in cloud computing technology. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore cloud computing technology in education context. However rapid changes in information technology are having a serious effect on teaching framework designs. So far, however, there has been little discussion about cloud computing benefits in domains of teaching frameworks which propels us to study and redesign teaching frameworks considering cloud computing. The purpose of this paper is to review recent research into cloud computing and features which can be improved with this new technology. This paper studied several researches through literature to determine the main impact of cloud computing on “planning and preparation” and “instruction” domains as two main domains of teaching framework. Light will be then shed on the impact and potential benefits of cloud computing on teaching framework. The paper closes by proposing to design an evaluation table based on cloud computing artifacts to enhance teaching practice and highlights its offerings for educational institutions.

Cloud Computing for Teaching Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Robab Saadatdoost ◽  
Alex Tze Hiang Sim ◽  
Hosein Jafarkarimi ◽  
Jee Mei Hee ◽  
Leila Saadatdoost
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Impact

Recently researchers have shown an increased interest in cloud computing technology. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore cloud computing technology in education context. However rapid changes in information technology are having a serious effect on teaching framework designs. So far, however, there has been little discussion about cloud computing benefits in domains of teaching frameworks which propels us to study and redesign teaching frameworks considering cloud computing. The purpose of this paper is to review recent research into cloud computing and features which can be improved with this new technology. This paper studied several researches through literature to determine the main impact of cloud computing on “planning and preparation” and “instruction” domains as two main domains of teaching framework. Light will be then shed on the impact and potential benefits of cloud computing on teaching framework. The paper closes by proposing to design an evaluation table based on cloud computing artifacts to enhance teaching practice and highlights its offerings for educational institutions.

scholarly journals Research and practice of online emergency teaching based on electronic information technology under the influence of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098504
Author(s):  
Ya Zhao ◽  
Yongfang Tang ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
Zhiyong Peng ◽  
Jie Kong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Engineering Cost ◽  
The Impact

The new crown pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic in 2020 has spread globally, causing schools around the world to stop routine teaching. Educational institutions in various countries have adopted online teaching methods in response to this crisis. This research, carried out in Human Institute of Information Technology with a number of teachers and students as its subjects, sets out to give statistical analysis upon the students' selections of online teaching platforms as well as their evaluations of online teaching. At the same time, based on the online teaching practice of “Building Structure”, a certain quantity of research upon the online teaching practice is completed among the students who began their college studies in engineering cost in the year of 2018. According to all these studies, it is evident that multiple factors such as teachers' ages, professions, and the features of various online teaching platforms, can determine which one is used by different individuals. The evaluation results suggest that online teaching is necessary under the impact of the epidemic despite the fact that students may face a series of problems for lack of self-control and other possible reasons. Through practice, an innovative teaching and evaluation method can partially solve the problems found in online teaching and provide useful ideas for creating higher quality teaching on the Internet.

scholarly journals Exploring Expansion and Innovations in Cloud Computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Jitendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Cloud Development ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Cloud Evolution ◽  
The Impact

Cloud computing is one of the highly sought-after paradigms in information technology. In several cases, it has surpassed earlier predictions of growth, and expanding its services to cover all the key areas. With the growing usage of the cloud, new requirements have also surfaced. To meet user expectations, the cloud services pool has expanded drastically. In order to meet the subscriber's futuristic demands, cloud computing needs to advance further. This work undertakes the study of expansion and innovations that have already happened in the recent past. In addition, perceived cloud evolution in the futuristic cloud has been presented. During the course of exploration, the impact of hardware and software on evolution has been taken into account. Considering the benefits involved, and the current advancement, this work concludes by presenting the innovations that will lead to cloud development.

Linking Cost Control Measures to Health Care Services by Using Activity-Based Information

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Hoyt ◽  
Colin M. Lay
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Cost Variability ◽  
The Impact

Canada's health care institutions are under pressure to limit expenditures, maintain or increase productivity, and assimilate new technology. Even though more than 75% of hospital operating expenditures are controllable, according to a study by the Economic Council of Canada, cost systems are needed to provide essential management information. The new Canadian Management Information System (MIS) Guidelines for health care are designed to provide accurate cost measurement of patient treatment and to help managers evaluate the impact of planned program changes on areas of operational responsibility. Other potential benefits of implementing the MIS guidelines include correcting dysfunctional funding of health care units with benchmarking and setting high reporting standards for resource use at the patient level (MIS, 1991). This paper focuses on one important aspect of bringing these costs under control by examining the relation between cost deviations (variances) and underlying cost drivers. Our discussion will lead to the conclusion that incompatibility of DRG methodology and traditional cost accounting models may be an important source of cost variability within diagnostically-related disease groupings.

Assessing the impact of cultural characteristics, economic situations, skills and knowledge on the development and success of cloud-based e-learning systems in the COVID-19 era

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luyan Teng ◽  
Qinyi Tan ◽  
Ali Ehsani
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeOne of the most significant threats of COVID-19 in the world is the closure of universities, schools, training courses and even companies and organizations. In such a situation and with the free time that has arisen, this threat of education closure can become a golden opportunity for learning and progress in virtual education. E-learning uses information technology (IT) to distribute knowledge and information for training and education. Also, cloud computing is a technology utilized in the IT domain. It can be employed in performing e-learning. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to assess the impact of cultural characteristics, economic situations, skills and knowledge on the development and success of CELS in the COVID-19 era.Design/methodology/approachCloud-based e-learning system (CELS) provides all e-learning requirements like software and hardware resources to promote conventional e-learning technologies. The CELS stands on several factors of diverse aspects that have been of high significance in CELS success. So, these systems must be checked to analyze their significance rate and successfully carry out their effectiveness. On the other hand, these days, the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) changes our daily lifestyles. Therefore, the present investigation provides a new model investigating the development and success of CELS in the COVID-19 era. Also, an online questionnaire was used to gather the data. The content validity of the questionnaire was obtained by applying the opinions of ten experts from e-learning specialists. The collected data are analyzed using LISREL and Smart PLS software.FindingsThe results from the path coefficient and the sample t-test have implied that skills and knowledge positively influence CELS in the COVID-19 era. In addition, the relationship between cultural characteristics and CELS in the COVID-19 era has been positive and significant. The relationship between the economic situations and the CELS in the COVID-19 era is positive and significant.Practical implicationsThe proposed model helps managers get a big picture of CELS necessities and more effectively in the COVID-19 era. This research has a unique impact on universities to develop an e-learning platform to facilitate the education process in the COVID-19 era. It provides guidelines for educational institutions to effectively implement the learning management system to facilitate students' education.Originality/valueCELS are getting increasingly essential to offer training courses more efficiently in educational institutions. Although the intersection between cloud computing and e-learning has increasingly grown in both practical and academic contexts, few studies on the impact of cultural characteristics, economic situations, skills and knowledge on the development and success of CELS in the COVID-19 era. This paper explores the ignored but critically important subject of CELS. This paper's main contribution is to present a new and integrated model containing the essential aspects of the development and success of CELS in the COVID-19 era. The proposed framework comprises cultural characteristics, economic situations, skills and knowledge aspects simultaneously, as well as sub-criteria denoting each element.

Change Management and Distance Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 1481-1487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parviz Partow-Navid ◽  
Ludwig Slusky
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Primary Focus

E-learning is defined as the transmission of knowledge whereby the instructor and/or the student participate in the learning process from different places and/or different times (Henry, 2001). Many organizations have adopted e-learning as a way to make the learning process faster and better (Roshan, 2002). However, recent studies have revealed that about 85% of students participating in e-learning and distance education fall short of completing their program. Low completion leads to low retention, which leads to low performance (Land, 2002). The problem, exacerbated by rapid changes in information technology (IT), lies on the shoulder of the universities and the students. For universities, e-learning often is such a giant technological and managerial change that the faculty attempts to deal with it by scaling instructions down to merely automated text lectures with a primary focus on the delivery of instructional materials, rather than addressing the students’ needs. For students, e-learning is usually a short experience coupled with little-known technologies for which they need extra guidance and support that is more persistent. However, the challenge is how to employ this new technology and bring students the help they need when they need it (Gordon, 2003; Roberts, 2001).

Change Management and Distance Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 218-223
Author(s):  
Parviz Partow-Navid ◽  
Ludwig Slusky
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Primary Focus

E-learning is defined as the transmission of knowledge whereby the instructor and/or the student participate in the learning process from different places and/or different times (Henry, 2001). Many organizations have adopted e-learning as a way to make the learning process faster and better (Roshan, 2002). However, recent studies have revealed that about 85% of students participating in e-learning and distance education fall short of completing their program. Low completion leads to low retention, which leads to low performance (Land, 2002). The problem, exacerbated by rapid changes in information technology (IT), lies on the shoulder of the universities and the students. For universities, e-learning often is such a giant technological and managerial change that the faculty attempts to deal with it by scaling instructions down to merely automated text lectures with a primary focus on the delivery of instructional materials, rather than addressing the students’ needs. For students, e-learning is usually a short experience coupled with little-known technologies for which they need extra guidance and support that is more persistent. However, the challenge is how to employ this new technology and bring students the help they need when they need it (Gordon, 2003; Roberts, 2001).

Changing trend in reading habits of teenagers in Delhi

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paramjeet Kaur Walia ◽  
Nitu Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to attempt to answer some plausible questions like what do teenagers prefer to read at leisure, how do they read and why do they read? With the rapid changes in information technology, there is tremendous change in means of communication. Today, much more information is available from electronic and digital media as compared to traditional books. A paradigm shift in information delivery from just information to infotainment has also affected the preferences of the information seekers. Teenagers are a demographic group under transition and they are not untouched by these rapid changes in technology and their impact on their reading preferences. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, a survey among 223 school-going (public/convent and government-/aided) teenagers aged between 12 and 18 years was done using a semi-structured questionnaire. Findings – The findings revealed a decline in sports and outdoor recreational activities during leisure, and only 20.6 per cent teenagers preferred reading during leisure. However, self-perception as an avid reader was expressed by majority (53.8 per cent). Fictions were liked by > 75 per cent teenagers; however, non-fictions were also liked by majority (61.8 per cent). The reading preferences of the children were found to be affected by their age, their gender and the type of schools they attended. A significant inverse relationship of television watching and movie-going was observed with reading time. Research limitations/implications – The biggest limitation was inability to directly interact with the students and inability to gather data from more schools. Practical implications – By knowing the current reading trends, leisure time habits and exposure to different means of information technology, the choice of medium for knowledge dispersal could be done. The study would help in providing a basis for a strategic change in the ratio of conventional books and other information media in the library. Social implications – By identifying the media exposure time and popularity, proper steps may be taken in order to enrich the particular media and to ensure that quality of information available on the media can be directed for social benefit in large. Originality/value – The impact of demographic and environmental variables on reading habits of teenagers has not been evaluated in this part of the world, especially in view of the paradigm shift in information technology and the growing influence of electronic media and social networking. An understanding of this mutual relationship would help in modifying the reading behaviour of the teenagers.

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