Virtual Class Room Technology in Universities
Ritu Singhal, Archana Singhal, Sonia
Journal of Information Organization, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2016.
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Abstract:
Virtual is infusing all the universities/educational institutes across countries. Higher education is turing as
expensive medium due to the excessive deploymnet of high configurable systems. Cloud Computing has emerged as a cost
effective solution to provide latest and highly configurable resources/systems with less investments.
E-Learning system is influcenced largely in the recent years due to Cloud Computing technology which use the latest
hardware and software. Virtual classroom and labs are also provided simultaneously to improve e-learning systems and
enhance collaboration among remote users. Focus of Cloud Computing is to serve users of different types of requirements and
allocates resources to them in cost effective manner. Users need not to worry for licensed software, hardware configuration,
storage, maintenance, up-gradation of resources and big working space. If you just have PC and internet connection, you can
use the resources from the cloud according to your requirements and pay accordingly.
The current work focuses on how cloud computing technology helps to improve education at university/college level in a
cost effective way. Besides we have suggested a framework for higher education system to co-ordinate among number of
affiliated colleges and collaboration among different universities. It also discusses how interaction and uniformity can be
maintained in different/remote colleges under a university and enhances collaboration through the cloud. Proposed architecture
is a generic and can be customized according to the need of different universities.