TY - GEN
T1 - Toward a cloud computing learning community
AU - Foster, Derek
AU - White, Laurie
AU - Erdil, Cenk
AU - Adams, Joshua
AU - Nazir, Sajid
AU - Argüelles, Amadeo
AU - Hainey, Brian
AU - Hyman, Harvey
AU - Lewis, Gareth
AU - Nazir, Sajid
AU - Van Nguyen,
AU - Sakr, Majd
AU - Stott, Lee
N1 - Changed template from 'Research output: Book/Report › Book' and advised author. 22/1/20 DC
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Pub date is Dec19 from publisher webpage. Used last date in this month. ET 18/3/20
PY - 2019/12/18
Y1 - 2019/12/18
N2 - Cloud computing continues to be an important technology in higher education. This domain is a rapidly evolving space, and continues to gain momentum as a primary infrastructure topology for technological advances across emergent industries. The on-the-cloud paradigm provides numerous affordances and new methods of working in industry, and also for end users within recent fields of study, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. As we move into the Industry 4.0 era with technology pillars such as the internet of things and cybersecurity, the importance of skillsets for cloud-based services will be an essential attribute for the majority of technology-related professions. Many higher education institutions have focused on offering training opportunities and programs for cloud computing, however, a lack of high-quality, contextualized to industry, curricula materials continues to be a challenge for educators. The purpose of this paper is to report on analyses conducted to categorize cloud computing courses currently taught in the higher education sector and to determine the possibility of moving towards the goal of a model curriculum. Additionally, the paper aims to provide guidance to educators about cloud computing skill-sets sought in the job market, and to report on a community platform designed to host cloud learning resources.
AB - Cloud computing continues to be an important technology in higher education. This domain is a rapidly evolving space, and continues to gain momentum as a primary infrastructure topology for technological advances across emergent industries. The on-the-cloud paradigm provides numerous affordances and new methods of working in industry, and also for end users within recent fields of study, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. As we move into the Industry 4.0 era with technology pillars such as the internet of things and cybersecurity, the importance of skillsets for cloud-based services will be an essential attribute for the majority of technology-related professions. Many higher education institutions have focused on offering training opportunities and programs for cloud computing, however, a lack of high-quality, contextualized to industry, curricula materials continues to be a challenge for educators. The purpose of this paper is to report on analyses conducted to categorize cloud computing courses currently taught in the higher education sector and to determine the possibility of moving towards the goal of a model curriculum. Additionally, the paper aims to provide guidance to educators about cloud computing skill-sets sought in the job market, and to report on a community platform designed to host cloud learning resources.
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Computer science
KW - Curriculum development
KW - Education
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3344429
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3344429.3372506
U2 - 10.1145/3344429.3372506
DO - 10.1145/3344429.3372506
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450368957
SP - 143
EP - 155
BT - ITiCSE-WGR '19: Proceedings of the Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ER -