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Cloud Computing: A Public and Private place to Access Unlimited Academic Possibilities

Cloud Computing: A Public and Private place to Access Unlimited Academic Possibilities.

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Cloud Computing: A Public and Private place to Access Unlimited Academic Possibilities

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  1. Cloud Computing: A Public and Private place to Access Unlimited Academic Possibilities

  2. In 1965, Executive from Western Union articulated the company's ambitious plan to create "a nationwide information utility, which will enable subscribers to obtain, economically, efficiently, immediately, the required information flow to facilitate the conduct of business and other affairs.“ In the Mid 1990’s Stanford graduate Stephen Herrod and other classmates wanted to address a major problem that plagued the IT industry: most servers operating at a tenth of their capacity. Amazon EC2: Jeff Bezos was the lead thinker Google App Engine: Page and Brin were the lead thinkers Microsoft: Azure Bill Gates was the lead thinker The Rise of Cloud Computing

  3. What is Cloud Computing? • Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. • Originally, cloud computing was intended to serve audiences such as: governments, corporations, educational organizations, Healthcare Industry and many other companies are utilizing cloud computing services.

  4. How can the Cloud benefit your College? Software as a service (SaaS)

  5. Benefits of the Cloud for Students • Software applications and other online resources are available for use by multiple users via the Internet. • Students hardware requirements are lower. • Reduces cost to access education for students. • Ensures students are able to access and run course software regardless of their location or computer processing power. • Provides access to education for students in remote and rural areas. • Offers students flexibility by enrolling in online learning programs.

  6. Benefits for your Community College • Expand online academic program offerings. • Enhanced usefulness of existing technology. • Older computers can remain useful for longer periods of time. • Installing software or repairing errors can be done centrally at the server level by college Information Technology department. • Reduction in college Information Technology budgets. • This distributed management system will assist support staff with efficiencies which will reduce workload. • By offering more online courses more classroom space will be available.

  7. Challenges with Cloud Computing • Security and Privacy Issues • Interoperability and Reliability issues • Data Governance • Loss of Informational Technology control • Jurisdictional complexities • Unforeseen server maintenance and outages issues • Lack of training and support for instructors, administrators and Information Technology professionals

  8. S-Curve 100% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

  9. Age Cohort groups that currently use cloud applications

  10. Cloud Computing Adoption and Position projections across typical user groups

  11. Innovators and early adopters: President of the college Vice President of Student Services Vice President of Academic Affairs Strategies to pursue Adoption Relative advantage: Decrease Information Technology costs, anytime and anywhere access, cost based on usage, expand online course programming, and be viewed with innovator status Compatibility: provide full service access for students in rural and remote areas Trialability: have the option to try cloud services for software as a service (student email, etc.) Visibility: Allows initial non-adopters to see how the cloud can be easily used and maintained

  12. Laggards are those employees that are resistant to any type of change regardless of the innovation, and those employees that feel their job may be eliminated because of the lack of need for IT staff Compatibility: provide full service access for employees from any distant location Trialability: have the option to try cloud services for software as a service (access work email and documents from anywhere) Visibility: Allows laggards to see how the cloud can be easily used and maintained

  13. Combined Attributes to Meet Critical Mass in Higher Education Relative Advantage: Focus on economic and academic advantages Compatibility: College mission : focus on our mission to cut spending and offer more expansive distance education programming Trialability: Ability to try to services for students and the campus Visibility: focus on the fiscal savings and benefits from both lower IT costs and additional revenue from distance education programming. Ease of use and seamless transition

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