Review article
CLOUD CLASSROOM
Andrej Šafhalter
; Osnovna škola Anice Černejeve, Makole, Slovenija
Abstract
Students and teachers spend several hours a day in school, where two-way communication, discussion, gathering and recording of information and data is conducted between them. Cloud computing enables all these activities beyond the confinement of physical location. Since students already use the internet and cloud computing extensively during their pastime, we wish to encourage them to employ this technology for educational purposes as well, where their application is practically limitless. The cloud classroom provides all the participants of the education process with reliable, flexible, efficient and free services accessible through a convenient interface. Major advantages of cloud computing may be observed in its capacity for cooperative learning, relatively safe remote data storage, access from various locations, availability of information during absence from class, adaptation of content to students of various ability levels (differentiation) and its customization to the individual needs and preferences of students (individualization). Future expectations in the field include educational applications based on artificial intelligence and the use of the semantic web.
Keywords
cloud computing; Google apps for education; moodle
Hrčak ID:
101450
URI
Publication date:
27.3.2013.
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