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Strategic Partnerships for school education 2019-1-PL01-KA201-065137
Project: Teacher4.0 - comprehensive method of implementation of Industry 4.0
concept into didactic practice in primary and secondary schools

Cloud Computing has already changed the way we live and work. We have access to information
everywhere, always being connected with others through various technical means.

Cloud Computing brings to education powerful innovative software and hardware resources,
where and when we need them, in the form we want. The challenge is to apply appropriate
educational approaches to maximize this potential. Working tools have the ability to engage
and motivate students, but also to shape a new profile of teacher, leader in technology and
Cloud Computing.

New cloud-based approaches allow us to identify dynamic ways to educate and learn, which
align with the way we think, share, study and collaborate inside and outside the classroom.

What is Cloud Computing as the main source of information?

What is cloud computing, in simple terms?

Cloud computing (pronounced in English / klaʊd kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ /, literally "cloud computing") is a
modern concept in the field of computers and computing, representing a distributed set of
computing services, applications, access to information and data storage, without the user need to
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know the location and physical configuration of the systems that provide these services.
The expression cloud computing derives from a symbolic graphic representation of the Internet often
found in the form of a cloud ("the cloud"), used when the technical details of the Internet can be
ignored, as in the image below (fig.1). The English concept and term appeared in practice in 2006-
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2007.

Fig.1 - Created by Sam Johnston

Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services -- from applications to storage and
processing power -- typically over the internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis.

1 https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
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https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
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