Cloud Computing Paradigm for Indian Education Sector

The Indian education sector is constrained by cost but demand has been rising for cost-effective, robust software applications to deliver services for learning and administration. Existing systems are not scalable and require huge capex (Capital Expenditure) and IT staff to maintain the system, which has shifted the focus from the core education business to managing the overheads of IT operations. The Cloud Computing paradigm has emerged as the optimal solution to meet the requirements of cost effective, scalable, and secure systems. In this paper, the author examines how the deployment of cloud computing in the education sector in India can meet these challenges. DOI: 10.4018/ijcac.2012040104 42 International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, 2(2), 41-47, April-June 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. implemented at SIES (Nerul) College of Arts, Science and Commerce. The study concludes with exploring the benefits of implementing a Cloud Computing PaaS based Faculty Feedback system and how this can be extended to the Indian education system support for the Indian Education Sector. 2. PROBLEM DEFINITION To develop a cost effective, web based user friendly, scalable, secure system for education system support. 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This paper is based on a combination of explorative and experimental research. The explorative part involves in literature review of cloud computing and to understand and analyze how cloud computing paradigm can benefit the for Indian Education sector. This helped in understanding how to leverage cloud computing to design a cost effective, secure web based system for education system support. The experimental part involved in actual design and development of a system to achieve the objective. This concept will be applied to design a faculty feedback system and study the benefits of implementing this system.