Leveraging the Power of Cloud Computing for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Abstract

Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) is a system of education that promotes the application of information and communication technologyfor teaching and learning. In today's world where technology is dominating all kinds of businesses and societies, the education sector is not lagging behind in exploring the power of information and communication technology. The recent developments in the higher education sector are not limited to providing the students with the latest knowledge and information but also focus on theenhancement of the student learning experience. The need of the current education system is to make the learning process accessible to maximum number of learners in the most comfortable manner. This paper presents a review of technology enhanced learning (TEL) with focus on two different implementations of TEL. These are Bring your Own Device (BYOD) to classroom and eLearning (the anywhere anytime learning methodology). The TEL enables the learners to have a better and convenient access to learning resources both inside and outside the educational campus. We have examined the use of technology in education sector to enhance the learning experienceof the students and better accessibility of learning content by presenting a learning system based on the power of cloud computing.The importance of cloud computing in the education sector has been understood well by the academic community as this is the technology that provides high capability computing resources at a nominal cost. The main reason for the success of technology enhanced learning is the availability of learning resources to the learners from anywhere, anytime as per their requirement and cloud computing is the computing technology that provides the resources when demanded through the internet. Therefore cloud computing is one of the major requirements to set up a technology enhanced learning system.