“Adapting Cloud Computing In Education: Can we speak for a Revolution in Achieving the Educational Aims in a Cluster Classroom for Gifted and Talented Students?”

Konstantinos Kalemis

What is Cloud Computing?• Cloud computing is a model

for enabling convenient, 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.

What is Cloud Computing?

• Simply put, cloud computing provides a variety of computing resources , from servers and storage to enterprise applications such as email, security, backup/DR, voice, all delivered over the Internet.

What’s in the cloud ?Much of what’s on your desktop or in your data center right now.

The cloud helps ensure that students, teachers, faculty, parents, and staff have on-demand access to critical information using any device from anywhere.

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The Cloud delivers a hosting environment that is immediate, flexible, scalable, secure, and available – while saving corporations money, time and resources.

What does cloud computing mean for education?

Getting cloud confidentThree words: cheaper, faster, greener. Without any infrastructure investments, you can get powerful software with lower or no up-front costs and fewer management headaches in the classroom on campus and beyond.

Key benefits of cloud computing• Cost saving, scalability,

flexibility and pay per use, a few key differentiators between cloud and on premise technologies.

• These factors are really helping organizations of any size, any industry, and located literally anywhere, getting into new businesses faster than before. 

Why we need cloud ?

BenefitsWith cloud computing as part of your IT strategy, you can increase your data capacity without compromising security or requiring your school, college, or university to make heavy infrastructure investments—all while helping to lower your total cost of ownership.

And why in education?16 to 18 % of school population is what we call gifted and talented.

No suitable curriculum exists on a national basis.

The % in Universities is higher and IC focus is to be considered.

And the reasons, are:• A bright child knows the answer; the gifted learner asks the questions.

• A bright child enjoys school; the gifted learner enjoys self-directed learning.

• A bright child works hard to achieve; the gifted learner knows without working hard.

• A bright child has a fine imagination; the gifted learner uses that imagination to experiment with ideas and hunches.

Impact of Technology in Elementary ClassroomsStatistics:

• 54% of 21st century kids start using mobile devices when they are 5 to 8 years old.

• 30% of the apps on parents’ mobile are downloaded specially for their children’s usage.

• 77% of the parents accept that usage of tablet increases children’s learning & creativity.

• 72% of iTunes top selling apps are designed for pre-schoolers and elementary students.

Flipped Classroom?

And the learning theories so far?

Flipped Classroom Model

Which cloud is right for you?

1. Software as a Service (SaaS): applications, such as e-mail, people use everyday.

2. Platform as a Service (PaaS): The operating environment in which applications run.

3. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The on-demand data centers.

Leveraging Cloud technologies

Anytime, anywhere apps: SaaSA growing number of academic institutions are turning to SaaS for their desktop applications. Students now have the free collaboration tools they want, people on campus have the tools they need to work together, and administrators are finding it easier and more cost-effective to manage.

Platforms in the cloud: PaaS

The scalable architecture of the cloud is transforming how academic institutions think about how they serve their students, teachers, faculty, and staff. Size—of your service, budget, or staff—does not limit IT when the platform for custom services is as readily available and broadly deployable as the Web. Cloud platforms free you to focus on the services you can offer without worrying about or managing the infrastructure needed for those services

A college uses an e-mail solution hosted in the cloud.

m-learning, e-learning, d-learning e-pedagogy?

Other benefits cloud can offerFriendly operating

environment with the tools you need on demand to create and host online services, software, Web sites, and mobile applications.

Concentrate on delivering applications.

Create multi-tenant applications.

Other benefits cloud can offer• Develop new applications

or services in the cloud that do not depend on a specific platform to run.

• Delivers cloud-based educational development tools in addition to services for testing, deploying, collaborating on, hosting, and maintaining applications.

Security in the cloud (?)Education institutions are

entrusted with confidential information and private data.

Cloud computing may seem risky because you cannot secure its perimeter—where are a cloud’s boundaries?

Education institutions vary in their security and regulatory compliance needs.

Thank you

kkalemis@primedu.uoa.gr

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