Cloud computing helps education industry better quality

The education industry refers to the economic behavior that is produced in the process of knowledge transfer, including the crowd is all-round. From the classification of age structure can be classified as basic education, adult education, from the classification of learning characteristics can be divided into academic and non-academic education, from the learning methods can be divided into face-to-face education and the use of information technology means of distance learning. This is a general concept of education industry, in fact, we should understand that education on the surface with a great public welfare, but "education industry" is an economic concept, the development of education industry must pursue a certain benefit and benefit, the pursuit of benefits must involve a certain means. The popularization of information technology has promoted the development of education industry for a long time.

In the current IT world, cloud computing is now the hottest technology, and when it is combined with the education industry, the education industry will grow better in quality. The current situation of education industry informatization has a certain accumulation but not very optimistic. These systems include: 1. The excellent course system; 2. Online course system, more at network College; 3. Learning platforms, such as open source Sakai or commercially tailored learning systems; 4. Network resource systems, such as network hard disk and network resource database, 5.BBS, blog and Groups communication system; In fact, to a certain extent, we say that the education industry in the current state of information is nothing more than the establishment of some online training, registration, and we are most familiar with the network education, but the future development of education industry information is not just these. The surge in cloud computing is also a revolutionary change in the education industry.

Above we also mentioned some information systems, but to the current education development of these systems are common, that is, together for teaching and learning needs services, its service model and service content similar. However, there are some shortcomings such as repetitive construction, waste of system resources, difficult management, weak resource sharing, narrow service object, lack of scalability, expansibility and interactive interoperability. Through technical means, the unified deployment of these systems, unified management and unified service delivery, is undoubtedly a good way to solve the above shortcomings. One of the most crucial words in this is "unity". The prerequisite of realizing the unification is to realize the integration of the efficiency of the resources, and only the numerous color service modes of cloud computing can meet the requirement of the development of education industry.

Cloud Computing + education = Education Cloud. What is education cloud? Education Cloud is the use of advanced cloud computing technology, the education of information resources and systems integration and information, on the cloud platform for unified deployment and realization, through the Internet to provide teachers and students and even social personnel services system. Realize the popularization of education cloud give us the greatest benefit in my opinion is to be able to achieve the popularization of educational resources, the current Chinese education in the field of education resources are not equal, which has caused some potential contradictions, with the help of cloud computing can make the average distribution of educational resources, the implementation of cloud computing technology, To a great extent, self-love can alleviate this contradiction and realize the sharing of educational resources.

Educational cloud platforms include infrastructure services, platform services, and software services. Infrastructure includes server, storage system and network system hardware parts, through virtualization technology to provide basic hardware platform services, platform services, including authentication, authorization, data management platform services, mainly composed of middleware, database and development platform, software services, is the education cloud of the upper service, is also the core of education cloud, education information system deployed in this layer, through the unified portal to provide services, users have access to services. Based on this educational cloud platform, many of the educational resources that could not be shared can now be shared and are a powerful tool for each education phase.

In short, the education cloud should grasp the current trend, the integration of more advantageous resources on the cloud, this is the current trend of education development.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)