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Bangladesh Perspective
Faisal Bin Abul Kasem, Abdullah Al-Imam, Shakib-Uz-Zaman Khan, Md. Sakib Khan
Department of Computer science and Engineering
Daffodil International University
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
{faisalpasha}{abdullah3098}{shakib3104}{sakibnsk} @ diu.edu.bd
Abstract— Cloud Computing is an emerging technology. It Resource pooling: The provider’s computing resources are
plays a major role in today’s technology sector. People are using pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant
it every day through one way or another. Education sector is not model, with different physical and virtual resources
out of this phenomenon. In this paper it is discussed that how dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer
Bangladesh will be benefited by applying Cloud in Education,
it’s challenges, case study and success story.
demand.
Rapid elasticity: Capabilities can be elastically
Keywords— Cloud, Cloud in Education, Bangladesh, Cloud provisioned and released.
in Bangladesh. Measured service: Cloud systems automatically control
and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability
I. INTRODUCTION at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service.
This paper focuses on application of cloud in education so
The world is changing rapidly. Day by day people are technical sides are not discussed here.
engaging more and more in ICT. Education is not out of this Many companies such as “Microsoft”, “Google”,
phenomenon. Most of the educational institutes’ students now “Amazon.com” and “Wolframalpha.com” are now serving
rely on web based educational system. From lectures to cloud technology to educational institutions and students.
assignment submission, everything is now online based.
There comes the necessity of cloud.
Cloud computing is a buzzing word now-a-days in ICT
industry. It means delivery of computing resources over the II. LITERATURE REVIEW
internet. In one word, cloud computing is nothing but a bunch
Lots of research has been done about advantages, challenges
of highly scalable computers working together somewhere
and applications of cloud computing. Banerjee provided
and giving service to an end user over the internet. It can also
overview of researches performed at HP Labs in the article
be visualized as doing one’s computing work using hardware
“An Intelligent IT Infrastructure for the Future”. [4] Delic and
resources from another place. The word “Cloud computing”
Riley assess the current state of enterprise knowledge
was first used by Compaq in 1996 and popularization was
management, describe architectural views of cloud and
done by Amazon.com when they had introduced Elastic
discuss briefly the underlying technologies.[5] The most
Compute Cloud. [1]
concerned area of cloud was its security. Dr. Ragib hasan has
A service provider is necessary in cloud computing. The
done a research on it and won the NSF CAREER Award. [6]
providers serve in different ways. Software-as-a-Service is
Others are also working on this. At present time it’s not a big
used for CRM, Email, Virtual Desktop, Communication,
concern anymore. Users can set their privacy demands with
games etc. Platform-as-a-Service is used for database, web
service providers. Recent researches prove that educational
server, development tools etc. Infrastructure-as-a-Service is
institutes and students can be benefited a lot from cloud
used for Virtual machines, Servers, storage, load balancers,
computing. Tuncay Ercan reviewed what the cloud
network etc.[2] These are service models. Deployment models
infrastructure will provide to education sector and how the
are of four types. Private, Public, Community and Hybrid.
teacher and students can be benefited more.[7] While Anjali
The NIST [3] defines characteristics of cloud as follows,
Jain and U.S Pandey discussed about the role of cloud
On-demand self-service: A consumer can unilaterally
computing in higher education.[8] Microsoft provided an
provision computing capabilities.
overview about the cloud services that can be used in
Broad network access: Capabilities are available
education, pointed out the benefits, briefly described security
over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms
issues, tips about planning and the services they are
that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client
providing under Microsoft Live@edu.[9] UNESCO IITE
platforms.
discussed in their policy paper about cloud. How cloud is
being applied in education, benefits, risk, guideline and technology in the learning session will help a student to be
future scenario were described. [10] Google first deployed App fully ready for the future world. Thomas J. Bittman of Gartner
for Education in October 2006 to Arizona State University.[11] Research pointed out three advantages of cloud[14].
a) Low-Cost and Free Technology: There has been a huge
III. APPLICATION IN EDUCATION growth in low-cost and free technology for social interaction,
publishing, collaborating, editing, content creation,
The cloud industry is emerging day by day. People are computing, etc.
leaning to it for its on demand policy. A user can have storage
or computational power as much as he need at instant without b) Content Growth: The amount of content (art, expression,
worrying about hardware. According to techisle.com opinions, true and false information of all forms) is growing
forecast[12] cloud market was $23.5 billion in 2012 and will at an exponential rate, available to a broad audience, and
reach $47 billion in 2016. Figure 1 shows the regional share. anyone can contribute.
c) Collaboration: Technology is rapidly improving the ability
to communicate and collaborate with others.
Diane Weaver mentions six advantages of cloud in education
in pearsonschoolsystems.com (used here with few alterations)
[15]