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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

and its implementation in education can be an effective way to solve existing problems and achieve
goals at minimal cost.

ADVANTAGES OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EDUCATION

Cloud computing offers an infrastructure, platform and educational services that create an affordable
and innovative learning environment. Such an environment allows collaboration between all
participants in the learning process and between different educational institutions that reflects on
the quality of education.

The benefits of the cloud computing model are for teachers and students as well as for the
educational institutions.

The advantages of cloud services for education can be considered from different aspects (4-7).

The use of applications and services, delivered by external providers, is a cost-effective and efficient
solution for educational institutions and allows enhancing financial flexibility. The advantages of
cloud computing model, compared to the traditional approach, are expressed in: reduced costs for
hardware and software as well as reduced costs for IT staff; payment for actual consumption;
provision of many free services. Cloud computing offers a faster return of investments and dealing
with rapidly changing software and hardware needs at a lower cost. There is a flexibility of the
employment of resources combined with economic efficiency.

The educational institutions can implement effectively their strategy through cloud computing
without the need to take care of its physical (hardware and software) provision. They have options to
acquire and implement new IT solutions and to hire IT resources quickly. Service providers ensure the
maintenance and management of IT resources. Cloud computing guarantees the use of modern ICT
by educational organizations, something that cannot be achieved if they use their own IT
infrastructure.

Cloud computing provides an easy and unrestricted access to services and resources at any time and
place through a variety of devices both for teachers and students. The comprehensive accessibility by
different devices enables the realization of ideas for mobile and lifelong learning – mobile learning
that is expressed not only in using mobile devices, but primarily in the mobility of participants in the
learning process.

Cloud computing tools useful in the process of collaboration, but also of teaching-learning
In your experience, have you encountered the message "Upload file to OneDrive or Google Drive to
view them from any device"? Nowadays, people are talking more and more about Cloud Computing,
but how they realize what Cloud Computing is and how I can use it.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Cloud Computing is defined as “A
model to allow convenient on-demand network access to a common set of configurable computing

This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the
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use which may be made of the information contained therein.