Cloud computing: should it be integrated into the curriculum?

Cloud computing has become increasingly popular among users and businesses around the world, and education is no exception. Cloud computing can bring an increased number of benefits to an educational setting, not only for its cost effectiveness, but also for the thirst for technology that college st...

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Published in:International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education 2015, p.105
Main Author: Changchit, Chuleeporn
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Curriculum planning
Methods
Sciences education
Study and teaching
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Summary:Cloud computing has become increasingly popular among users and businesses around the world, and education is no exception. Cloud computing can bring an increased number of benefits to an educational setting, not only for its cost effectiveness, but also for the thirst for technology that college students have today, which allows learning and adopting to these new technologies easier for them. This study aims at investigating how cloud computing is perceived by college students and which factors have a tendency to encourage or discourage them to accept the cloud computing as part of their course curriculum. The results in this study reveal that all five factors, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived security, perceive speed of access, and perceived cost of usage are factors that play an important role in encouraging students to accept cloud computing as part of their core curriculum. Keywords: Cloud Computing, Education, Perceived Cost, Perceived Security, Perceived Speed, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)
ISSN:1550-1876
DOI:10.4018/ijicte.2015040109