Cloud Computing Boosts the Quality of the Education Industry

The education industry refers to the economic behaviors produced during the process of knowledge transfer, which includes a full range of people. From the age structure classification can be simply classified as basic education, adult education, classification from learning characteristics can be divided into academic education and non-diploma education, from learning methods can be divided into face-to-face education and the use of information technology means of distance learning. This is a general concept of the education industry. In fact, we should understand that education has a great deal of public welfare on the surface, but the “education industry” is an economic concept. The development of the education industry is bound to pursue certain benefits. Benefits and pursuit of benefits necessarily involve certain means. The popularity of information technology has promoted the development of the education industry for a long period of time.

In the current IT world, cloud computing is now the hottest technology. When the cloud computing and education industries are combined, the education industry will develop better in terms of “quality”. The status quo of the current education industry informatization has accumulated but is not very optimistic. These systems include: 1. Excellent course system; 2. Online course system, more common in network college; 3. Learning platform, such as using open source Sakai or commercial customized learning system; 4. Network resource system, such as network hard disk and network Resources library; 5. Exchange systems such as BBS, Blog and Groups; In fact, to a certain extent, we say that the informationization of the education industry in the current state is nothing more than the establishment of some online training, registration, etc., and we are most familiar with it. Online education, etc. But the development of information technology in the future education industry is not just these. The upsurge of cloud computing has brought revolutionary changes to the education industry.

In the above, we also mentioned some information systems. However, to the current development of education, these systems have commonalities, that is, they jointly serve the needs of teaching and learning, and their service models and service contents are similar. However, the systems established by them have the drawbacks of redundant construction, waste of system resources, difficulty in management, weak resource sharing, narrow service targets, lack of scalability, scalability, and interaction and interoperability. Through technical means, the unified deployment, unified management and unified service provision of these systems are undoubtedly a good way to solve the above shortcomings. One of the most critical words here is "unity." The prerequisite for achieving reunification is to achieve effective integration of resources. At present, only the numerous color service models of cloud computing can meet the requirements of the development of the education industry.

Cloud Computing + Education = Education Cloud. What is an education cloud? Education cloud is the use of advanced cloud computing technology, the integration and informationization of educational information resources and systems, unified deployment and implementation on the cloud platform, through the Internet to provide services to teachers and students and even social workers. The realization of the universalization of education clouds gives us the greatest advantage. It seems to me that it is possible to realize the popularization of educational resources. At present, there are serious educational resource inequalities in the field of education in China. This has also led to some potential conflicts. With the help of cloud computing, education can be made possible. The average allocation of resources and the implementation of cloud computing technology can greatly ease this contradiction and achieve the sharing of educational resources.

The educational cloud platform includes infrastructure services, platform services, and software services. Infrastructure includes hardware components such as servers, storage systems, and network systems. It provides basic hardware platform services through virtualization technology; platform services, including platform services such as authentication, authorization, and data management, are mainly composed of middleware, databases, and development platforms. Software service is the upper service of the education cloud, and is also the core part of the education cloud. The education information system is deployed at this level. Providing services through a unified portal is the entrance for users to obtain services. Based on this educational cloud platform, many educational resources that could not be shared before can now be shared. It is a powerful tool for each stage of education.

In short, the education cloud should seize this trend and integrate more advantageous resources in the cloud. This is the current trend of education development.