Title :
Cloud Computing, trend importance and relevance for higher education
Author :
Mejia Ortega, Ivan Dario ; Ballesteros Ricaurte, Javier Antonio
Author_Institution :
Univ. Pedagogica y Tecnol. de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia
Abstract :
The use of cloud computing is increasing, due to the growing due to the benefits and opportunities that it offers to the users and also because of the use of new technologies such as, portable devices. Offering permanent access to the information. Involving different disciplines, where education is accepted and assimilated because of the quantity of services that it offers to all users involved in this educative process. According to this, inside of this research project “Pedagogical Proposal Based on Cloud Computing used as Support of the Presential Learning at the Uptc, Education Faculty”, It pretends to research and evidence how software and apps that are storages in the cloud become a model to the educative service and how these technologies are involved in the formative process of students at the Education Faculty. Creating new environments and learning alternatives in which Internet and the “Cloud” are highlighted.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computer aided instruction; further education; Uptc; application storage; cloud computing; education faculty; educative process; educative service; higher education; information access; pedagogical purpose; portable devices; presential learning; service quantity; software storage; student formative process; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Education; Hardware; Least squares approximations; Cloud computing; Internet; cloud education; cloud services; educational computing;
Conference_Titel :
Computing Colombian Conference (9CCC), 2014 9th
Conference_Location :
Pereira
DOI :
10.1109/ColumbianCC.2014.6955353