The Application of Cloud Computing in Education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015

The present study illustrates an experiment conducted on the effectiveness of Cloud Computing, which allows for innovative models of instruction to emerge. This paper describes possibilities for integrating SaaS (Software as a Service) technologies in education, since they are the only contemporary method of instruction, which allows the development of language, communication, social, computer and soft skills simultaneously. The experiment looks into individual and teamwork in the Cloud on the topic “Summary Writing in the Cloud”. A statistical analysis of the data is also presented in this paper.

Association for the Development of the Information Society, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"