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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

Collaboration is also streamlined for educators. With the cloud, teachers and administrators can
easily share lesson plans and can work on them together at any place or time. Through messaging
apps and other formats, different schools and districts can break barriers that prevent them from
collaborating, which in turn leads to a more global educational community.

Reduce Cost by Moving to the Cloud

Shifting to cloud computing can save users significant amounts of money. Districts would no longer
need to keep large staffs of technicians but could have a smaller IT staff to manage the school’s or
district’s cloud. Cloud computing can potentially allow districts and schools to save money on
licenses, hardware, power, and support. Additionally, schools will be able to access online editions of
textbooks which will save money and ensure students are learning from the most recent books.
Cloud computing can also cut the amount of paper used and photocopying costs.

Educational technology is imperative to instilling 21st-century skills into students. Cloud computing
offers numerous benefits to students as well as teachers and administrators. The implementation of
cloud computing in educational institutions will ultimately help schools to work toward their strategic
vision and ensure student success.

Time & Convenience

One of the biggest obstacles for teachers is time. The cloud offers many solutions that give teachers
more time to focus on instruction. Since students and teachers can access materials from anywhere,
teachers can spend less time making copies. Teachers will no longer have to deal with the frustration
of misplaced materials and assignments as the cloud holds all this information. Instead of carrying
home stacks of papers and notebooks for grading, teachers can grade and offer feedback on
assignments from their device. The cloud also streamlines the process for gathering missing and late
work from absent students.

Teachers can save all their lesson plans and assignments to the cloud. From there, they can share
them with other teachers and administrators and receive feedback on them. This makes lesson
planning from year to year simpler and allows for educators to shift plans easily. If by chance a
teacher’s laptop fails, all the information will not need to be recreated as the cloud will retain it.
Districts and administrators can also organize and share important information and policies with all
personnel easily through the cloud. The cloud gives users the flexibility to work from anywhere.

Literature

https://www.tcbok.org/wiki/information-management/cloud-computing/examples-of-cloud-
computing-services/

https://www.vandis.com/insights/the-importance-of-cloud-computing-in-education/

This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the
author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein.