School on Cloud: connecting Education
to the Cloud for digital Citizenship
Network.
Professor
KOSTIS KOUTSOPOULOS
Athens Greece
March 2014
INTRODUCTION
Understanding any new approach to
education is possible only through an
examination of the evolution of
education, which in turn determines how
we perceive education as well as how
we practiced it using ITC methods.
INTRODUCTION
A basic principle of epistemology is: the way
we practice our science is limited almost
exclusively by our "myths".
If this is the case, then a major concern in any
scientific endeavour is the sources of its
myths.
The question that we need to ask is: what are
the "myths" with which we have to scientifically
approach the School on the Cloud concept?
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Unambiguously and categorically, I
would like to declare that at the centre
of the scientific approach towards
School on the Cloud, should be the
concept of integration (an integration
operating within and between
classrooms).
INTRODUCTION
Proposition:
The present approach to education,
which can be termed the Traditional
Teacher-centered paradigm is now
absolute and we find ourselves in the
period of the Cloud Student- centered
(or personalized) teaching and
learning paradigm.
INTRODUCTION
Educational processes such as:
Openness
Sharing
Interpersonal relationships
Discourse, personal motivation
Tacit over explicit knowledge
Sharing learning resources
Reusing them on the web
Can not
BE ADDRESSED IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY
INTRODUCTION
These processes can be dealt with
Only
if we accept the fact that they represent a
different manifestations of “a whole”,
Which is the
Dialectic Entity of Cloud on Cloud.
INTRODUCTION
The new Paradigm
A need exists for an integrated
approach which is simultaneously
pedagogic, technical/technological,
economic, social , political and cultural,
in dialectic harmony and respecting all
aspects of teaching and learning an
integral part of which are pupils,
teachers and school admistrators.
INTRODUCTION
The new Paradigm
Transforms the role of pedagogy.
Changes the roles that teachers and
educators play.
Eases the burden of teachers on
knowledge transfer.
Creates new knowledge with skills.
Provides Leadership and institutional
change.
Provides administrative support.
INTRODUCTION
The new Paradigm
SoC determines and formulates:
i-Students,
i-Teachers and
i-Administrators.
Proceeds
“towards a new learning paradigm” that
fully justifies our efforts.
CLOUD COMPUTING
The concept of cloud computer can be
described as an ICT technology that
can be fully determined in a three
dimensional space consisting of:
the characteristics axis,
the type of service axis and
the form of deployment axis.
CLOUD COMPUTING
ESSENTIAL
CHARACTERISTICS
DEPLOYMENT
TYPES
FORMS OF SERVICES
Fig 1. Cloud Computing Framework
On Demand Service
Broad Network Access
Resource Pooling
Rapid Elasticity
Measured Service
Saas Paas IaasPrivate
Community
Public
Hybrid
CLOUD COMPUTING
Definition Cloud computing is a new ICT approach
which by possessing five essential
characteristics
Can provide ubiquitous, rapid, convenient and
with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction three forms of services
That can be deployed in four fundamental
types of cloud Computing.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Essential Characteristics
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service
CLOUD COMPUTING
Essential Characteristics
Clone tasks onto multiple virtual
machines.
Distribute the work over a set of virtual
machines.
Offer lack of transparency to users.
Accommodate a large number of users
and applications.
Provide multitasking.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Forms of Services
CLOUD PROVIDERS
SaaS
CRM, Email, Games
Virtual Desktop
PaaS
Execution Runtime
Database, Web Server
IaaS
Virtual Maschines
Servers, Storage, Load
APPLICATION PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE
CLOUD USERS
Fig. 2 Forms of Services
CLOUD COMPUTING
Forms of Services
Software as a Service (SaaS):
The most basic form of cloud services.
Offers users computers – physical or virtual
machines.
Offers other recourses.
The applications are accessible from various
users devices such as a client interface or a
program interface.
Is referred to as “on-demand software”.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Forms of Services
Platform as a Service (PaaS):
Cloud providers deliver to the users a
computing platform.
Users have the capability to deploy their
applications.
Users as application developers can develop
and run their software solutions.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Forms of Services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
Providers offer the users various computer capabilities.
Users are able to deploy and run arbitrary software.
Users do not manage or control the underlying cloud
infrastructure
Users have control over storage and the deployed
applications.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Computing Types
Private cloud:
It is an infrastructure provisioned and operated
for the exclusive use of a single organization.
It is managed internally, by a third-party or some
combination of them.
It is hosted internally or externally.
It is operated by the organization or a third party
CLOUD COMPUTING
Computing Types
Community cloud:
It shares the infrastructure between several members
of a specific community of users or organizations.
It operates in different flexible ways.
It may be owned, managed, and operated by one or
more of the users or organizations in the community, a
third party, or some combination of them.
It may exist on or off the premises.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Computing Types
Public cloud: It exists when the infrastructure or the services are
rendered over a network that is open for use by the
general public.
It may be owned, managed, and operated by a
business, academic, or government organization, or
some combination of them.
It exists on or outside the premises of the cloud
provider.
Technically there may be little or no difference between
public and private clouds,but security may be
substantially different.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Computing Types
Hybrid cloud:
It is a composition of two or more distinct cloud
infrastructures, from different service providers.
It offers the benefits of multiple deployment
types.
It crosses isolation and provider boundaries.
It allows users to extend the capacity or the
capability of their cloud service.
Its architecture requires both on-premises
resources and off-site server-based cloud
infrastructure.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud is NOT
Cloud is not a place.
Cloud is not lock-in.
Cloud is not server virtualization.
Cloud is not an island.
Cloud is not top-down.
THE SoC PROJECT
The Beginning
Started in a CEDEFOP study visit for ICT in education
experts in Spain, April 2012.
These discussions resulted in the idea for the SoC
proposal by a core group of partners.
The group continued discussions in a preliminary
meeting held in in Athens, November 2012.
Based on these a proposal was submitted and approved
creating:
The School on Cloud: Connecting Education
to the Cloud for Digital Citizenship Network
THE SoC PROJECT
Goal
The SoC network seeks to explore how
Education should respond to new ICT
developments in the form of Cloud–based
applications that are rapidly transforming
our society, including education.
The aim is to overcome the existing divide
between Education and Cloud computing.
THE SoC PROJECT
Objectives
To achieve this goal, SoC plans to create a
learning network, a community
Participants will share knowledge with one
another and jointly develop new knowledge.
Promote innovation and best practice in the
implementation of Cloud-based environments
for learning and teaching.
Enable a fruitful exchange of experiences, best
practices and visions between the network
members.
THE SoC PROJECT
Objectives
In addition to its basic objective the SoC:
Address the impact Cloud computing will likely
have on the management of education
institutions
Identifies methods and approaches to teaching
and learning with the Cloud-based
technologies
Promotes Cloud-based tools and digital
educational content, relating its use to key
competences
THE SoC PROJECT
Objectives (Continue)
Collect, validate and widely disseminate the
use of digital content
Encourage teachers and educators to
innovate creatively, using digital technology
and resources
THE SoC PROJECT
Achieving the Objectives
SoC will follow these developmental phases:
Discovery.
Envisioning.
Formulating plans.
Finalizing.
THE SoC PROJECT
Achieving G. and O.
The fundamental question that SoC, has to
answer is:
Can its goal and objectives be achieved?
My unweaving answer is an absolute YES.
For the SoC by addressing its key questions, in
essence starts the process towards the new
education paradigm, which practically achieves
its goal and objectives.
.
THE SoC PROJECT
Achieving G. and O.
As learning becomes increasingly digital,
online access becomes the necessary
vehicle for the emerging Cloud-based
developments.
An approach that aligns with the way we
think, share, learn and collaborate
outside the classroom,
which in turn allows education to bring
into learning: dynamic, interactive,
multimedia and learning activities.
THE SoC PROJECT
Objectives
In sum, Cloud-based activities offer an
opportunity to transform the role of both
ends of pedagogy - teachers and
students- for it helps young people to
access any learning at any place and
any time from any teacher with the right
expertise.
THE SoC PROJECT
Utilization
Although education has largely been left
behind in using Cloud developments.
Already in Europe the first education
Cloud is a reality in Northern Ireland to
1,200 schools and more than 350,000
teachers and students.
In addition, many schools and
educational organizations are
considering adapting their activities using
Cloud-based applications.
THE SoC PROJECT
Utilization Justification Lower hardware and software cost
High accessibility
Device independence
Improved performance
Few problems with compatibility
Large storage capacity
Increased data reliability
Data-safe computing environment
Ability to share and edit documents in real time
Group collaboration and sharing
Instant and automatic updated Web-based apps
THE SoC PROJECT
The Future
Selecting, implementing and managing
Cloud-based services, school-wide
collaborative tools, educational forms etc.
are not easy tasks as I might have led
you to believe.
Fortunately they are challenging, in that
they provide the expectation of a
successful outcome, which of course is in
the hands of all of us.
THE SoC PROJECT
The Future My basic dictum that “Technology changes,
Education survives” signifies the need for paradigm
changes within the unchanging role of education.
If we accept that the SoC presents an opportunity to
redefine the role ICT plays in implementing an
education strategy or in starting the process towards a
new education paradigm.
At the same time we have to accept that Cloud-based
technologies in education like any other new
technology advancement also create disruptive
possibilities and potential risks.
THE SoC PROJECT
The Future
Evaluating the degree of maturity that
cloud-based technologies have
reached, their present and anticipated
pace of growth as well as their trends
are not easily attainable objectives,
They are achievable.
Their successful achievement fully
supports and justifies the need of the
Soc project and the efforts of all of us
here today.
THE FOUR W. GROUPS