Education "cloud": Promoting educational reform

"Cloud" can change an industry. Cloud computing is a technology, and cloud computing is a business model. The popularization of cloud business model will cause the change of industry application. Industry cloud application platform will gradually become the major application of professional development direction. ”





Kong: "Three people line, must have my teacher Yan." Choose the good person and from it, its poor and change it. This sentence also applies to today's new technology under the conditions of education Management cloud Platform field-set the length of the family, to avoid the short, hundred schools of contention.





use "cloud" to solve the malpractice of educational informationization





China's education reform has a strange phenomenon: although every year the state to the tertiary institutions to invest a large amount of education funds, but rarely lead the industry information success model. I think one of the important crux is that a large number of education funds by tens of millions of Chinese universities diluted, on average, the investment in each university is still seriously inadequate, failed to form a focus of the outbreak point.





How to make education investment focus on the field, focus on the industry and play a more efficient role? Recently, Chongqing Municipality has made some attempts to they take the investment of education as the city's key strategic consideration, carry on the regional construction and operation, realize the electronic library, student file management, curriculum management, resource management and so on in one region centralized unified management and the sharing, has changed the former colleges and universities own provision the input way. American universities such as Harvard University and MIT have started to share open classes on the Internet for use by teachers and students of other institutions. Open classes and joint schools have become common in the universities, such as Peking University students can take courses at Beihang University or Beijing medical School.




With the development of
education information, sharing and building is a popular and accepted way in the academic circle. In the context of the rapid development of information technology, IBM proposes to use the cloud Platform for regional construction, regional operation and regional sharing of educational resources in areas with high educational resources, so as to promote the education of Chinese universities seeking for change and upgrade.





education "Cloud" opportunity





at present, China has at least 2, 30,000 colleges and universities, mainly in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi ' An, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu and other regions. Recently, IBM has made a preliminary industrial planning for Jiangsu area, and analyzed which areas of Jiangsu province are suitable for development in the cloud platform, and education is one of them.





has developed a cloud platform for education management in Jiangsu because it has met 3 prerequisites:





Where there is a gathering, there is the chance of the cloud. Jiangsu Province and its surrounding areas, bringing together more than 290 colleges and universities, the industry is relatively concentrated and aggregated. These conditions on the one hand to start the cloud platform of the commercial market, the strong guarantee, on the other hand, the professional ability of high concentration.





there is a "chain" where there is cloud computing. The education industry is a long supply chain, each colleges and universities need students ' enrollment management, learning management, curriculum management, library data management, teaching management, academic management, international communication management, and the similar needs of graduates ' employment management, entrepreneurial cooperation and donation management. But any university is difficult to complete the whole chain of construction.




There are
markets where there are end consumers. In Jiangsu Province, the establishment of education cloud Platform, in addition to attract the province's 297 colleges and universities, but also for the surrounding areas of tertiary institutions to use.




Three elements of
education "cloud"





In addition, the establishment of education cloud platform in Jiangsu Province also met 3 operational elements.





first of all, the market capacity of Jiangsu Province, the most suitable for the cloud platform of business applications of the university education management. The province is the most densely populated area of Chinese universities, which has gathered more than 297 universities and has sufficient market demand in the region to meet the requirements of large-scale development of the cloud platform.





Although every university needs a chain on the cloud platform, the IBM survey found that few universities can complete the whole chain, even if some colleges have a relatively complete chain, and there is no guarantee that each module is doing very well. In addition, the lack of funds restricts the information construction of many universities, especially the private or local universities. The IT system of colleges and universities, even if it is only a management module of enrollment, it is hundreds of thousands of yuan, many millions of dollars. If the use of rented education cloud platform to support the education management needs of many universities, the annual cost will be low to tens of thousands of yuan, most colleges and universities can pay. In some areas, such as bioengineering, simulation and simulation of scientific research, the calculation of scientific research needs large-scale computing environment and professional data model, which is not a college can be carried by their own power. The above conditions, the birth of a low-cost, High-quality university education platform needs.





Second, the educational cloud platform satisfies the application's professionalism and is not easy to obtain. The education cloud carries the business is a specialized domain function collection, including the enrollment management, the on-line examination, the admission management, the curriculum management, the research management, the logistics management, the library-on-line reading, the on-line borrowing, the project management, the research exchange, the graduation management, the employment management, the donation management, the scholarship Each of these individual applications is sufficiently professional and scarce.





third Education cloud platform is led by the local telecom operators, the well-known universities participate in the construction, by the local High Educational Commission supervision, to ensure the credibility of the cloud platform. Among the 297 universities in Jiangsu Province, except Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, there are not many universities with national influence, and there will be no situation of Beijing University's warlords. In the absence of industry benchmarking, how to build the credibility of the cloud platform?





IBM believes that, in the presence of a large market demand, universities, telecom operators, educational institutions and the BoE can build such a market: the user group is 297 universities and other universities around the region willing to enter the cloud platform, the operator of the education cloud Platform can be entrusted to the local telecom operators The professional skills and expertise on the cloud platform of education, it can be provided by well-known universities inside and outside the province, as well as domestic and international educational rating agencies, educational researchers, such as GRE, TOEFL and even overseas agencies and computer level certification bodies, and so on, the participation of various parties can bring more professional knowledge and influence into the education cloud platform. And the public credibility of the education cloud, can be the local provincial educational commission, the High Commission to serve as a regulatory body.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)