Literature review of recent research on Cloud Computing in Education

Abstract

The education system in rural and semi-rural areas of developing and underdeveloped countries are facing many challenges. The limited accessibility and challenges to the education are attributed mainly to political, economic and social issues of these underdeveloped countries. We propose a “Feasible Rural  Education  System  (FRES)”  based  on  Cloud to  enhance the  accessibility to  education in rural  areas. Cloud Computing provides resources and capabilities of Information Technology (e.g. applications, storages, communication, collaboration, infrastructure) via services offered by CSP (cloud service provider). Cloud computing has the capacity of scaling and elasticity which is perfect for such an environment.