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  • Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.[1][2] Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them.[3]
  • The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.[6]

  • Efficiency and cost effectiveness are why many schools, colleges and universities are looking closely at the cloud.
  • Increasingly staff and students are requiring (demanding?) ubiquitous access to their files, applications and social connections - any time, any place, any device. Cloud computing provides a powerful way of achieving this.

  • Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”
  • “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”

  • classes-via-cell-phone trend, including Louisiana Community & Technical College System and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

  • Textbooks

    At the news conference, representatives from various textbook publishers and universities extolled the "enormous potential" that the Kindle DX may hold for education. Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, Pace University, and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia have all agreed to some type of trial program for their schools in which students will be given some type of discounted or free Kindles to "take notes and highlight, search across their library, look up words in a built-in dictionary, and carry all of their books in a lightweight device."

    The following textbook publishers have agreed to add some of their products to the Kindle catalog: Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson), Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South-Western (Cengage), and Wiley Higher Education. Amazon estimates that this represents more than 60% of the U.S. higher education textbook market. The only major publisher not involved is McGraw-Hill Education.

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