• Dr. Hemant Verma

Advances in technology offer new opportunities in enhancing teaching and learning. Many advances in learning technologies are taking place throughout the world. The new technologies enable individuals to personalise the environment in which they work or learn, utilising a range of tools to meet their interests and needs. In this paper, we explore the features of ‘cloud computing’ (CC) in order to exploit the affordance of CC in advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning in a higher education context. In the paper we argue that the cloud computing has a significant place in the higher education landscape both as a ubiquitous computing tool and a powerful platform that can enhance engagement among educators to understand and improve practice, and thus, increase productivity. Specific cloud tools considered in this paper are the Kinsta Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMWare, Google Docs and Microsoft’s SkyDrive. By critically examining the utility of these tools, we find that they are user-friendly media which can be used as a personal digital workspace as well as for storage for digital artefacts. Such artefacts stored in the “cloud” can be accessed from anywhere at anytime, and can be easily shared with others. It is worth trying its use by academics for sharing tested-and-tried teaching materials, artefacts, portfolios, strategies, and research and all these, with an eye not only to improving their own classroom but to advancing practice beyond it. As a result, the purpose is to raise awareness about concept of Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Higher Education

"Cloud Computing Issues for Higher Education", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.262-264, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904438.pdf

"Cloud Computing Issues for Higher Education", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp262-264, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904438.pdf