Cloud Computing in High School

Abdul AzizSupervised by

Lyn Pemberton and Mithileysh Sathiyanarayanan

Changing the Saudi ArabianEducation Systems

CLOUD

A model of computation and data storage based on “pay as you go” access to “unlimited” remote data center capabilities.

A cloud infrastructure provides a framework to manage scalable, reliable, on-demand access to applications.

Cloud services provide the “invisible” backend to many of our mobile applications.

“Cloud Computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and the hardware and systems software in the datacenters that provide those services. The services themselves have long been referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS). The datacenter hardware and software is what we will call a Cloud. When a Cloud is made available in a pay-as-you-go manner to the general public, we call it a Public Cloud; the service being sold is Utility Computing. We use the term Private Cloud to refer to internal datacenters of a business or other organization, not made available to the general public. Thus, Cloud Computing is the sum of SaaS and Utility Computing, but does not include Private Clouds.” (pg. 1)

CLOUD COMPUTING

IS THIS THE CLOUD, WE ARE TALKING? - NO

NIST CLOUD DEFINITION

“The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines cloud computing as a "pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."

DEFINING THE CLOUD

5 characteristics

1.On-demand self-service2.Broad network access3.Resource pooling4.Rapid elasticity5.Measured Service

Definition based on the definition from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

4 deployment models

1.Public Cloud2.Private Cloud3.Community Cloud4.Hybrid Cloud

DEFINING THE CLOUD

3 Service models

1.Software as a Service2.Platform as a Service3.Infrastructure as a Service

DEFINING THE CLOUD

CLOUD COMPUTING LAYERS

For Students and Teachers

• Software as a Service – Google Docs

Details and Examples of Cloud

Research Questions

• How Cloud Computing is Revolutionizing Education system and how it can have impact in Saudi Arabian high schools?

• Whether cloud computing is viable for Saudi Arabian education system and what are the solutions for implementing in the Saudi Arabian high schools?

• What are the factors that affect the adoption of cloud computing in Saudi Arabian high schools?

Aim of the Study

The main aim of the study is to determine the adoption of cloud computing in Saudi Arabian high schools in teaching and learning from teachers’ perspective.

Objectives of the Study

• Investigate which are the education institutions implemented cloud technologies for teaching and learning. How the empirical studies were carried out?

• Investigate the critical factors for cloud computing technologies to be successful in teaching and learning.

• Investigate the factors affecting the use cloud applications in the Saudi Arabian high schools.

• Provide suggestions and recommendations for the adoption of cloud applications in schools for teaching and learning.

Tasks• To understand the background of Saudi Culture and their

education.• To investigate on the factors affecting teachers for not

using cloud applications in schools.• To examine various empirical studies carried out with

respect to adoption of cloud computing in education.• To investigate the questionnaire models that suits the

study.• To design the questions, plan the empirical study and to

collect the results.• The analysis of the results to be carried and certain

suggestions or recommendations to be proposed.

Figure: UTAUT Model from developed countries context (Venkatesh et al. 2003)

Figure: Research Model to understand the effect of attitude from developing countries context. In this study, Saudi Arabian context

Statistical Results

The results are provided in the thesis.The raw data can be accessed fromhttps://drive.google.com/open?

id=0B6suWOQKRkzXfkFQamFKWjFZU0lHNjlHcHZnNnhTNjNjVUhFVS10eHp2RXAwN0dESDBrTTA&authuser=0

Recommendations

• The schools must take initiative to improve infrastructure and resources needed for using cloud applications with a well-assisted IT help team.

• Efforts to advance the adoption of cloud computing in higher education in Saudi Arabia should focus on improving attitude towards the use of the technologies for education and on ensuring that the facilitating conditions are addressed.

• Social factors also play a role in influencing adoption. Hence, the motivation and supportiveness of lecturers and colleagues is important in promoting the adoption of cloud technologies.

Resources on the Cloud: Blogs• Planet Cloud

– an aggregation of blogs talking solely about the cloud• Wisdom of the Clouds

– James Urquhart, Market Manager for Cloud Computing and Virtualization, CISCO

• Rational Survivability– Christopher Hoff, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions, Data Center

Solutions, CISCO• Amazon Web Services Blog

– Official blog for Amazon Web Services• Windows Azure Blog

– Official blog for Windows Azure• Elastic Vapor :: Life in the Cloud

– Reuven Cohen, Founder and CTO Enomaly Inc.• All Things Distributed

– Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com

Resources on the Cloud• NIST Definition of the Cloud

– The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of the cloud.• Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

– A paper on the potential benefits and uses of the cloud• Clouderati Twitter Lists

– While Clouderati itself doesn’t tweet about the cloud, it does provide a number of lists of persons that tweet about the cloud. While many of these folks are in the business space, they provide a lot of information about the cloud.

• EDUCAUSE Cloud Computing Resources– Resources from education on cloud computing, including publications,

presentation, podcasts, etc.• Attend CloudCamp

– CloudCamp is an unconference held throughout the world (and even virtually). It’s a great place to go, meet people who are also interested in the cloud, and learn a few new things.