نحو تصميم نموذج تمهيدي لتطبيق الحوسبة السحابية في المؤسسات التعليمية

Towards designing an introductory model for applying cloud computing in educational institutions

The application of cloud computing in educational institutions, within the framework of traditional computing, is currently used in most or even all Egyptian educational institutions of all types, sizes, and orientations.

In addition, the digital documents created or provided on these systems are stored on computers that already exist. However, it is difficult for groups of users such as students, teachers, faculty members, and workers in those educational institutions to access these electronic documents by operating computers outside their network.

Also, the use of cloud computing does not include running those programs from the computer owned by the specific individual; instead, they are stored on servers that can be accessed via the Internet.

At the present time, most or even all educational institutions are facing a steady increase in the cost of education that is greater than the rate of inflation, and their budgets are subject to continuous contraction, which necessitates, as a result of those pressures that affect the achievement of their goals, the search for alternatives to overcome them, including radical changes in their structure, especially technological ones. In order to go directly towards providing the educational service, maximizing and effective performance of all its internal operations, and constructive interaction with all groups of beneficiaries while taking advantage of the emerging technological developments, including:

Cloud computing delivers IT resources and capabilities (e.g., applications, storage, connectivity, collaboration, and infrastructure) through services provided by a cloud service provider (CSP).

Cloud computing has many characteristics, such as common infrastructure, self-service, payment according to usage model, dynamic and virtual technology, flexibility, and scaling.

This work includes a review of each of the topics related to the importance and advantages of cloud computing in basic and auxiliary educational activities, with an explanation of the benefits, risks, and determinants associated with its use. And clarify the work related to cloud computing while shedding light on cloud computing technology in terms of concepts and stages.

related to the purpose of this study and its characteristics; Defining levels of cloud computing service delivery such as programming, infrastructure, and platform that are all treated as services, with clarification of planning factors for each of them; This study also demonstrated public, private, and hybrid cloud architecture models; how to plan for the educational institution to enter the cloud by defining the required architecture; The dimensions of building the proposed introductory model were also discussed, and its five basic stages were explained.