The Use of Cloud Computing by Students from Technical University – The Current State and Perspectives

Cloud computing is usually associated with a set of applications and tools, used by companies to conduct their businesses. However, the possibilities offered by the cloud, and its versatility, causes that its tools and applications can also be used in education. There are several articles and papers...

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Veröffentlicht in:Procedia computer science Jg. 65; S. 1075 - 1084
Hauptverfasser: Lis, Tomasz, Paula, Bajdor
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier B.V 2015
Schlagworte:
applications
cloud computing
education
individuals
student
education
cloud computing
individuals
student
tools
applications
ISSN:1877-0509, 1877-0509
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Zusammenfassung:Cloud computing is usually associated with a set of applications and tools, used by companies to conduct their businesses. However, the possibilities offered by the cloud, and its versatility, causes that its tools and applications can also be used in education. There are several articles and papers presenting the advantages offered by the implementation and use of the cloud by the universities, but none of these studies have raised the issue of using the cloud by students, who are the backbone of any university. Therefore, the aim of this article is to present, not only the possibilities offered by the cloud in education, but also how cloud computing is perceived by students, and whether they consider introducing cloud computer at universities. The first part of the article includes a theoretical part of cloud computing, explaining the main issues and most common definitions of the cloud, the second part presents the results of studies concerned on using the cloud by individual users (not the company). And, the third part of the article presents the results of research, that have been conducted among the students of the Technical University of Czestochowa.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.050