In this episode, I share with you some resources I’ve been reading through about cloud computing and education and I share some of my own experiences in how cloud computing has enhanced education.

Resources discussed in this episode:

The Future of Disruptive Technologies by Dr. Srikanth Gadda (affiliate link)

González-Martínez, J. A., Bote-Lorenzo, M. L., Gómez-Sánchez, E., & Cano-Parra, R. (2015). Cloud computing and education: A state-of-the-art survey. Computers & Education, 80, 132-151.

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

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Hello there, and welcome back to my podcast. My name is Heather Monthie. And in this podcast, we talk about all things related to education and leadership in the digital age. We talk about technology, education, innovation, all that kind of fun stuff. So, today’s episode, what I wanted to do is talk a little bit about cloud computing in education. And I am reading a book about disruptive technologies. And I wanted to supplement some of my thoughts about the book, some of the things that are covered in the book, I wanted to supplement some of it with, you know, as you know, if you’ve listened to this podcast, I like to cover research articles and talk a little bit about some of the research articles that are out there. So I have a book that I’m reading, it’s called The Future of disruptive technologies by doctors from Comp gada. And then I also found an article or research article, it’s a literature review. And it is by Gonzalez Martinez at all published in 2015. In computers and education, it is called cloud computing and education, a state of the art survey. So it is from 2015. So it does have some, you know, it’s seven years old at this point. But it has been cited 370 times, which is quite a lot. As you’re, as you’re talking about some of the different technologies in education, that’s quite a lot. So I figured it was probably worth it to take a look at it. This book was published in 2020. I also wanted to put out this disclaimer that, you know, things can and do change over time. So there are going to be some things in the article, they’ll eventually be some things in the book that are no longer relevant. And as we go forward into the future, maybe even this podcast episode, this video, wherever you are watching or listening to me today, could become out of date, or my thoughts and views might have changed. So I just want to put that disclaimer on here that this is a point in time. So I just wanted to share that things change, and so do opinions and thoughts and that kind of thing. So this book is called again, it’s called The Future of disruptive technologies. And it breaks all these different tech disruptive technologies down by business workforce and society and some of the impacts that it has on those three particular areas. What workforce education can certainly be a part of workforce. But what I wanted to do is take the different technologies that are covered in this book. And hopefully at some point, we can get the author of the book on this podcast to talk a little bit more about it. But I want to do is take each technology that’s covered in the book, and let’s talk about how those technologies have changed, or are changing education, some of these things that we’re talking about the names, even some of the thoughts that I have, these are things that haven’t occurred yet. These are things where the technology is not quite there yet. Or maybe the technology is there. It’s just not affordable enough yet to use, especially in the education sector. So it’s, you know, we’ll we’ll continue talking about some of these different disruptive technologies. So we’re starting with cloud computing. So the article itself in the article about by Gonzalez at all, is a it’s a literature review article, the author’s went into IEEE ACM, some of the, you know, the leading research databases regarding technology and education, and gives a very, very, very good well thought out literature review of all the different studies that have been done regarding cloud computing, and education, I’m not going to go into super detail with it, it is quite a long research article, but I will certainly link to it. So you can take a look at it and read it yourself. So the first part of the book goes into cloud computing and business and all the different ways that cloud computing is being used in business or some of the data around how much cloud computing has been implemented in business. But in terms of revenue, and that kind of thing, not going to go into details on those, you know, those stats, that kind of thing. If you want to read that, go and read the book, I will link to that in the show notes. But I think it’s important to note here that 90% of business has adopted the cloud. And, you know, we’ve got a lot of different uses for the cloud. We’ve got storage, compute networking resources, things that can be used for emerging technologies, AI, natural language processing processes.

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But also just you know, normal daily business operations can be done in the cloud, you know, so there was a statement in here that says if you don’t need to be near the computer, it can likely be done in the cloud. So you know, while the focus of this podcast isn’t on business, but there is a huge implication of that, because as we’re talking about education and how we’re using the cloud, students as they are coming out of programs, they’re coming out of training programs. Maybe you as an instructor, you are teaching you’re interested in teaching the class Cloud certainly is going to have an impact on that. Because you people need to know cloud as they go into business. So that there is a there’s a piece of education there as well. So one thing that he talked about in the book as well is that in 2019, Google had announced a quantum machine that could could perform mathematical calculations that normally take about 10,000 years. And it could be done in under 35 minutes. And that is done using cloud computing resources. And they also announced a cloud gaming service to play video games without specialized hardware. So I can think of so many different ways that that is going to impact education, and workforce going forward. Things like, you know, if we can break a mathematical calculation that normally takes 10,000 years, and under 35 minutes, there’s certainly some security implications there. Got cloud gaming services that allow you to play a video game without specialized hardware that would be fantastic for using virtual reality in education, different simulations, there’s all sorts of great things that you could do here. So the author talks about in the book that how cloud computing affects the workforce is in productivity, and collaboration. So you know, you see a lot of different tools that you can access really from anywhere, if you think about your own personal setup that you have, you’ve got maybe Google Docs that you can access documents right on your own computer, if you needed to, you could access them on your phone, send them off in an email, if you needed to, say