Implications, Risks And Challenges Of Cloud Computing In Academic Field – A State-Of-Art / آثار ومخاطر وتحديات الحوسبة السحابية في المجال الأكاديمي – أحدث ما توصلت إليه التكنولوجيا

Implications, Risks And Challenges Of Cloud Computing In Academic Field – A State-Of-Art

Education helps in the monetary development of a nation. Education has the power to eradicate the poverty in a country.

The increasingly complex infrastructure-environment management, development goals and rapidly changing technology pose new kinds of challenges to education sector.

In this modern era, the higher educational institutions concentrate on latest technologies and tools to explore learning.

At mean time, the educational resources distribution might be uneven across the countries.

Cloud computing brings various benefits to integrate into the academic field. 

There are risk issues for adopting cloud in storing and executing secret data.

This paper surveys to analyze uses, issues in adhering cloud computing for the faculty, staff and students in education sector.

It also focuses on security issues, risk divisions.

The review recognized the areas in which cloud computing can have an influence in education field.

Furthermore, this paper aims to discuss about security management and the challenges faced by the education sector in developing countries thus facilitating researchers to find the relevant issues, in which they can focus their efforts.

Keywords: Cloud computing, Academic field, Cloud risk, Challenges, IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS.