An Academic Cloud Framework for Adapting e-Learning in Universities

Abstract: Cloud computing based e-Learning provides continuous (any time, anywhere and any device learning) and collaborative learning. Cloud computing in an academic environment such as university will be benefitted by every students, faculties, administrators and research scholars. Most of the universities infrastructures are underutilized and in some cases over utilization of resources occurs in order to balance the usage of the resources we need an elastic technology. In order to develop an e-Learning platform for postgraduate students of computer science and research scholars new methodologies should be taken into consideration for project, problem based learning and virtual computorium. This type of cloud based e-Learning provides new blended learning methodologies for education. In this paper, an academic cloud framework is proposed in order to provide a new era in e-Learning. This framework addresses the services and deployment of cloud in a new dimension and each layer specifies the essential components needed to construct an academic cloud in a university.

Keywords: Academic cloud framework, cloud based learning, e-Learning cloud, Academic cloud services.