Information Systems and Online Education: Cloud computing for E Learning in Higher Education

摘要

E-Learning is one of the significant services in 21st century that all educational institutions across the world should deal with caution. The learners usually look for knowledge either via the traditional-instructional materials or through online gate known as (E learning). the application of e-learning mechanism depends on the level of educational institutions as primary-schools would not be encouraged enough to online services due to lack of enough-experiences, but higher education institutions can adapt such service and force the students to utilize of it through many ways. Information system provides lots of benefits to educational institution through e-learning. However, the application of information system is high in commercial field. Nowadays, the education has changed in many ways and most of the countries have got rid of the traditional-education of their shoulder to the private sector (services provider), so the educational institutions started adapting the information systems to produce emergence technology. This paper highlights the E-Learning services based on cloud computing, the level of awareness among the Higher education institutions about information systems and discuses e-learning system in the present day scenario. Further the paper attempts to unearth the challenges facing educational institutions in the implementation of LMS. Finally, the paper presents some cloud computing deployment models and services which can help the higher education institutions in improving their existing E-learning service.