Archive | September 23, 2010

TechTutor 2 – Cloud Computing for Education

The Internet is rapidly improving the ability to communicate and collaborate with others. It has tremendously allowed content to grow growing at an exponential rate, available to a broad audience, and anyone can contribute. It also made a huge growth in low-cost and free technology for social interaction, publishing, collaborating, editing, content creation, computing, etc. And because of these developments, internet technology is benefitting a lot of students in their learning stage.

Cloud computing, in a nutshell, is a way to provide computer applications to users without the need for those users to purchase, install, or support software on their local computers and/or servers. Cloud computing provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), meaning not only is the software hosted on a remote computer, but data are stored remotely too.
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