Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Design and Implementation

Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Design and Implementation

Lee Chao
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Release Date: April, 2012|Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 357
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0957-0
ISBN13: 9781466609570|ISBN10: 1466609575|EISBN13: 9781466609587
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Description:

With its cost efficiency, enabling of collaboration and sharing of resources, and its ability to improve access, cloud computing is likely to play a big role in the classrooms of tomorrow.

Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Design and Implementation provides the latest information about cloud development and cloud applications in teaching and learning. The book alsos include empirical research findings in these areas for professionals and researchers working in the field of e-learning who want to implement teaching and learning with cloud computing, as well as provide insights and support to executives concerned with cloud development and cloud applications in e-learning communities and environments.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Cloud based Research
  • Cloud Platform for Teaching and Learning
  • Cloud Services in E- Learning
  • Collaboration and Group Learning
  • Education Cloud
  • E-Leaning
  • Open Source Cloud Computing
  • Teaching and Learning in the Cloud
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[...] [T]his book, with a comprehensive introduction and discussion of the cloud computing technology and its application in education, can greatly help educators and researchers in educational institutions. Through the book, educators and researchers will find valuable information about the cloud computing approach.

– Lee Chao, University of Houston-Victoria, USA

Designed for those who create and maintain technology infrastructures in academic institutions. [...] Diagrams and charts throughout provide visual illustrations of architecture questions, partitioning information, relationships between carious features of the cloud, and even a Web 2.0 concept map.

– Laura K. Simmons, George Fox Seminary, in Teaching Theology and Religion
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Lee Chao is currently a Professor of Math and Computer Science in the school of Arts and Sciences at University of Houston – Victoria, USA. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Wyoming, USA, and he is certified as Oracle Certified Professional and Microsoft Solution Developer. His current research interests are data analysis and technology-based teaching. Dr. Chao is also the author of over a dozen of research articles in data analysis and math modeling, and books in the development of computer labs and database systems.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Yair Levy, Nova Southeastern University, USA
  • Ikuo Kitagaki, Hiroshima University, Japan
  • Vivien Hodgson, University of Lancaster, UK
  • Paul Marshall, University of Houston - Victoria, USA
  • Minnie Yi-Miin Yen, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
  • Katy Campbell, University of Alberta, Canada
  • Lesley Farmer, California State University, Long Beach, USA
  • Jenny Huang, Lamar Consolidated ISD, USA
  • Mary Ziegler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA