Cloud Computing empowering Educational Institutes

Cloud computing refers to the data access, retrieval and storage on the internet instead of hardware storage. We have moved out of the Ice age, the Iron Age, the Industrial age, the Information age and towards the Participation Age. The world of today requires active participation over the internet, everything we do is digital; over the internet. This need for change has also captured the education world.

The educational world has embraced new methods of education and tools for learning. First computers took over the classrooms, and then the Internet took over our educational institutes. It is incorporated in the classrooms, the administration, our daily lives.

Cloud Computing Solutions:

The cloud computing has resolved many issues of the educational system. The solutions provided by the cloud for educational systems are:

• Saves Money: The installation of cloud into the IT system has resulted in effective and efficient use of the resources by reducing the cost through sharing the IT equipment that is centralized on a cloud platform.
• Regular Updates: Cloud is not obsolete. It is continuously updating to cater the demands of consumers and latest technology.
• Flexible: It provides a flexible environment of learning, as it gives access to numerous tools for learning.
• Sharing: It provides a single pool for sharing all the material between teachers, parents and students to avoid iteration. Provides a single access point for information sharing.

Cloud Empowerment:

Cloud computing has empowered our educational institutes as it resolves various issues and is less costly and more efficient. This is the age where the students are all digital citizens and teachers are working hard to adapt technology so that they can reach out to the new generation kids, and so are parents.

Intelligent Classrooms:

The ease of access of cloud computing has revolutionized the ways of teaching and learning. The concept of intelligent classrooms have originated where the availability of the data, resources and applications is everywhere regardless of the location of the teacher or student. It has taken collaborative learning one step ahead by giving individual access of similar content to a group of people.

Cloud computing also provides personalized access of information to students or access to information guided by the teacher to a single student. It is a platform for sharing practices for teachers and students alike. It has also centralized the results of tests, exams, homework as well as the teacher’s assessments for the purpose of identifying individual shortcomings and issues.

Intelligent Administration:

The demand for cutting costs and making everything digital has placed pressure on the administration of the schools. Cloud computing has resolved this issue as well as it provides ways to reduce cost as you only pay for the space you use online and you can downsize or up-size as per your requirement any time during the tenure without bothering to install more hardware in case of traditional computing. Several assessment tools are also available over the cloud like analytical monitoring and performance monitoring which makes certain admin tasks easy and accountable and supports decision making.