SoC Summit 2014 K. Koutsopoulos

School on Cloud: connecting Education

to the Cloud for digital Citizenship

Network.

Professor

KOSTIS KOUTSOPOULOS

Athens Greece

March 2014

INTRODUCTION

Understanding any new approach to

education is possible only through an

examination of the evolution of

education, which in turn determines how

we perceive education as well as how

we practiced it using ITC methods.

INTRODUCTION

A basic principle of epistemology is: the way

we practice our science is limited almost

exclusively by our "myths".

If this is the case, then a major concern in any

scientific endeavour is the sources of its

myths.

The question that we need to ask is: what are

the "myths" with which we have to scientifically

approach the School on the Cloud concept?

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INTRODUCTION

Unambiguously and categorically, I

would like to declare that at the centre

of the scientific approach towards

School on the Cloud, should be the

concept of integration (an integration

operating within and between

classrooms).

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Proposition:

The present approach to education,

which can be termed the Traditional

Teacher-centered paradigm is now

absolute and we find ourselves in the

period of the Cloud Student- centered

(or personalized) teaching and

learning paradigm.

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Educational processes such as:

Openness

Sharing

Interpersonal relationships

Discourse, personal motivation

Tacit over explicit knowledge

Sharing learning resources

Reusing them on the web

Can not

BE ADDRESSED IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY

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These processes can be dealt with

Only

if we accept the fact that they represent a

different manifestations of “a whole”,

Which is the

Dialectic Entity of Cloud on Cloud.

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The new Paradigm

A need exists for an integrated

approach which is simultaneously

pedagogic, technical/technological,

economic, social , political and cultural,

in dialectic harmony and respecting all

aspects of teaching and learning an

integral part of which are pupils,

teachers and school admistrators.

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The new Paradigm

Transforms the role of pedagogy.

Changes the roles that teachers and

educators play.

Eases the burden of teachers on

knowledge transfer.

Creates new knowledge with skills.

Provides Leadership and institutional

change.

Provides administrative support.

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The new Paradigm

SoC determines and formulates:

i-Students,

i-Teachers and

i-Administrators.

Proceeds

“towards a new learning paradigm” that

fully justifies our efforts.

CLOUD COMPUTING

The concept of cloud computer can be

described as an ICT technology that

can be fully determined in a three

dimensional space consisting of:

the characteristics axis,

the type of service axis and

the form of deployment axis.

CLOUD COMPUTING

ESSENTIAL

CHARACTERISTICS

DEPLOYMENT

TYPES

FORMS OF SERVICES

Fig 1. Cloud Computing Framework

On Demand Service

Broad Network Access

Resource Pooling

Rapid Elasticity

Measured Service

Saas Paas IaasPrivate

Community

Public

Hybrid

CLOUD COMPUTING

Definition Cloud computing is a new ICT approach

which by possessing five essential

characteristics

Can provide ubiquitous, rapid, convenient and

with minimal management effort or service

provider interaction three forms of services

That can be deployed in four fundamental

types of cloud Computing.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Essential Characteristics

On-demand self-service

Broad network access

Resource pooling

Rapid elasticity

Measured service

CLOUD COMPUTING

Essential Characteristics

Clone tasks onto multiple virtual

machines.

Distribute the work over a set of virtual

machines.

Offer lack of transparency to users.

Accommodate a large number of users

and applications.

Provide multitasking.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Forms of Services

CLOUD PROVIDERS

SaaS

CRM, Email, Games

Virtual Desktop

PaaS

Execution Runtime

Database, Web Server

IaaS

Virtual Maschines

Servers, Storage, Load

APPLICATION PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE

CLOUD USERS

Fig. 2 Forms of Services

CLOUD COMPUTING

Forms of Services

Software as a Service (SaaS):

The most basic form of cloud services.

Offers users computers – physical or virtual

machines.

Offers other recourses.

The applications are accessible from various

users devices such as a client interface or a

program interface.

Is referred to as “on-demand software”.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Forms of Services

Platform as a Service (PaaS):

Cloud providers deliver to the users a

computing platform.

Users have the capability to deploy their

applications.

Users as application developers can develop

and run their software solutions.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Forms of Services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):

Providers offer the users various computer capabilities.

Users are able to deploy and run arbitrary software.

Users do not manage or control the underlying cloud

infrastructure

Users have control over storage and the deployed

applications.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computing Types

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computing Types

Private cloud:

It is an infrastructure provisioned and operated

for the exclusive use of a single organization.

It is managed internally, by a third-party or some

combination of them.

It is hosted internally or externally.

It is operated by the organization or a third party

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computing Types

Community cloud:

It shares the infrastructure between several members

of a specific community of users or organizations.

It operates in different flexible ways.

It may be owned, managed, and operated by one or

more of the users or organizations in the community, a

third party, or some combination of them.

It may exist on or off the premises.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computing Types

Public cloud: It exists when the infrastructure or the services are

rendered over a network that is open for use by the

general public.

It may be owned, managed, and operated by a

business, academic, or government organization, or

some combination of them.

It exists on or outside the premises of the cloud

provider.

Technically there may be little or no difference between

public and private clouds,but security may be

substantially different.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computing Types

Hybrid cloud:

It is a composition of two or more distinct cloud

infrastructures, from different service providers.

It offers the benefits of multiple deployment

types.

It crosses isolation and provider boundaries.

It allows users to extend the capacity or the

capability of their cloud service.

Its architecture requires both on-premises

resources and off-site server-based cloud

infrastructure.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud is NOT

Cloud is not a place.

Cloud is not lock-in.

Cloud is not server virtualization.

Cloud is not an island.

Cloud is not top-down.

THE SoC PROJECT

The Beginning

Started in a CEDEFOP study visit for ICT in education

experts in Spain, April 2012.

These discussions resulted in the idea for the SoC

proposal by a core group of partners.

The group continued discussions in a preliminary

meeting held in in Athens, November 2012.

Based on these a proposal was submitted and approved

creating:

The School on Cloud: Connecting Education

to the Cloud for Digital Citizenship Network

THE SoC PROJECT

Goal

The SoC network seeks to explore how

Education should respond to new ICT

developments in the form of Cloud–based

applications that are rapidly transforming

our society, including education.

The aim is to overcome the existing divide

between Education and Cloud computing.

THE SoC PROJECT

Objectives

To achieve this goal, SoC plans to create a

learning network, a community

Participants will share knowledge with one

another and jointly develop new knowledge.

Promote innovation and best practice in the

implementation of Cloud-based environments

for learning and teaching.

Enable a fruitful exchange of experiences, best

practices and visions between the network

members.

THE SoC PROJECT

Objectives

In addition to its basic objective the SoC:

Address the impact Cloud computing will likely

have on the management of education

institutions

Identifies methods and approaches to teaching

and learning with the Cloud-based

technologies

Promotes Cloud-based tools and digital

educational content, relating its use to key

competences

THE SoC PROJECT

Objectives (Continue)

Collect, validate and widely disseminate the

use of digital content

Encourage teachers and educators to

innovate creatively, using digital technology

and resources

THE SoC PROJECT

Achieving the Objectives

SoC will follow these developmental phases:

Discovery.

Envisioning.

Formulating plans.

Finalizing.

THE SoC PROJECT

Achieving G. and O.

The fundamental question that SoC, has to

answer is:

Can its goal and objectives be achieved?

My unweaving answer is an absolute YES.

For the SoC by addressing its key questions, in

essence starts the process towards the new

education paradigm, which practically achieves

its goal and objectives.

.

THE SoC PROJECT

Achieving G. and O.

As learning becomes increasingly digital,

online access becomes the necessary

vehicle for the emerging Cloud-based

developments.

An approach that aligns with the way we

think, share, learn and collaborate

outside the classroom,

which in turn allows education to bring

into learning: dynamic, interactive,

multimedia and learning activities.

THE SoC PROJECT

Objectives

In sum, Cloud-based activities offer an

opportunity to transform the role of both

ends of pedagogy - teachers and

students- for it helps young people to

access any learning at any place and

any time from any teacher with the right

expertise.

THE SoC PROJECT

Utilization

Although education has largely been left

behind in using Cloud developments.

Already in Europe the first education

Cloud is a reality in Northern Ireland to

1,200 schools and more than 350,000

teachers and students.

In addition, many schools and

educational organizations are

considering adapting their activities using

Cloud-based applications.

THE SoC PROJECT

Utilization Justification Lower hardware and software cost

High accessibility

Device independence

Improved performance

Few problems with compatibility

Large storage capacity

Increased data reliability

Data-safe computing environment

Ability to share and edit documents in real time

Group collaboration and sharing

Instant and automatic updated Web-based apps

THE SoC PROJECT

The Future

Selecting, implementing and managing

Cloud-based services, school-wide

collaborative tools, educational forms etc.

are not easy tasks as I might have led

you to believe.

Fortunately they are challenging, in that

they provide the expectation of a

successful outcome, which of course is in

the hands of all of us.

THE SoC PROJECT

The Future My basic dictum that “Technology changes,

Education survives” signifies the need for paradigm

changes within the unchanging role of education.

If we accept that the SoC presents an opportunity to

redefine the role ICT plays in implementing an

education strategy or in starting the process towards a

new education paradigm.

At the same time we have to accept that Cloud-based

technologies in education like any other new

technology advancement also create disruptive

possibilities and potential risks.

THE SoC PROJECT

The Future

Evaluating the degree of maturity that

cloud-based technologies have

reached, their present and anticipated

pace of growth as well as their trends

are not easily attainable objectives,

They are achievable.

Their successful achievement fully

supports and justifies the need of the

Soc project and the efforts of all of us

here today.

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