An Inspiritaonal tool for Enriching Contemporary Higher Education: Cloud Computing

Abstract

Higher education institutions may be government or private, are under severe budgetary control while realizing their IT infrastructure to develop and provide various services to the students, the parents, the faculty and the members constituting as potential stake holders. There is no doubt that public sector counterparts have been abundantly funded by the government. Still then they strive to optimize their capital and operational expenditure for building up an IT infrastructure. The universities are expected to resort to the Conceptual Cloud Computing model of leasing infrastructure through cloud providers and outsource provisions for cloud service to the stake holders through uses which motivates enhancement of efficiency. The process facilitates a value added knowledge transfer on the progression knowledge base for all stakeholders of the university. The deployment of such information technologies, in educational institutions, requires appropriate and effective management. Many higher educational institutions affiliated to the different universities may not afford this large investment cost of implementing new technologies. The main objective of the proposed work is to analyze and suggest for implementation citing the advantages of this Conceptual Cloud Computing model for educational institutions, and to reveal its potential features which would create an innovative learning environment among all its stake holders.