Personal Mobile Cloud Computing Affordances for Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Chaka Chaka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
South African ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Project Study ◽  
Mobile Computing Environment

Within the cloud computing ecosystem and its different permutations, there exists personal mobile cloud computing. The latter has not been covered and investigated much in relation to its affordances for higher education (HE), especially in South Africa. Thus, this chapter argues that personal mobile cloud computing can offer HE significant educational affordances in the form of cloud computing value chain. It does so by providing one South African example entailing a two-project study in the HE sector in which the cloud affordances of Twitter and Facebook were leveraged for educational purposes. Regarding Twitter, one of its affordances is that it was exploited as a cloud based virtual blackboard for a course content, thereby facilitating micro-teaching and micro-learning. Concerning Facebook, one of its affordances is that it served as a cloud based mobile computing environment in which a course-specific writing process was mounted by the instructor and participants. A collective affordance for both Twitter and Facebook was both consumerization and BYOD approaches to teaching and learning.

Personal Mobile Cloud Computing Affordances for Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 1138-1161
Author(s):  
Chaka Chaka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
South African ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Project Study ◽  
Mobile Computing Environment

Within the cloud computing ecosystem and its different permutations, there exists personal mobile cloud computing. The latter has not been covered and investigated much in relation to its affordances for higher education (HE), especially in South Africa. Thus, this chapter argues that personal mobile cloud computing can offer HE significant educational affordances in the form of cloud computing value chain. It does so by providing one South African example entailing a two-project study in the HE sector in which the cloud affordances of Twitter and Facebook were leveraged for educational purposes. Regarding Twitter, one of its affordances is that it was exploited as a cloud based virtual blackboard for a course content, thereby facilitating micro-teaching and micro-learning. Concerning Facebook, one of its affordances is that it served as a cloud based mobile computing environment in which a course-specific writing process was mounted by the instructor and participants. A collective affordance for both Twitter and Facebook was both consumerization and BYOD approaches to teaching and learning.

Personal Mobile Cloud Computing Affordances for Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 1550-1571
Author(s):  
Chaka Chaka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
South African ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Project Study ◽  
Mobile Computing Environment

Within the cloud computing ecosystem and its different permutations, there exists personal mobile cloud computing. The latter has not been covered and investigated much in relation to its affordances for higher education (HE), especially in South Africa. Thus, this chapter argues that personal mobile cloud computing can offer HE significant educational affordances in the form of cloud computing value chain. It does so by providing one South African example entailing a two-project study in the HE sector in which the cloud affordances of Twitter and Facebook were leveraged for educational purposes. Regarding Twitter, one of its affordances is that it was exploited as a cloud based virtual blackboard for a course content, thereby facilitating micro-teaching and micro-learning. Concerning Facebook, one of its affordances is that it served as a cloud based mobile computing environment in which a course-specific writing process was mounted by the instructor and participants. A collective affordance for both Twitter and Facebook was both consumerization and BYOD approaches to teaching and learning.

Mobile Cloud Computing

2018 ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Parkavi R ◽  
Priyanka C ◽  
Sujitha S. ◽  
Sheik Abdullah A
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Mobile Computing Environment

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) which combines mobile computing and cloud computing, has become one of the industry ring words and a major conversation thread in the IT world with an explosive development of the mobile applications and emerging of cloud computing idea, the MCC has become a possible technology for the mobile service users. The concepts of Cloud computing are naturally meshed with mobile devices to allow on-the-go functionalities and benefits. The mobile cloud computing is emerging as one of the most important branches of cloud computing and it is expected to expand the mobile ecosystems. As more mobile devices enter the market and evolve, certainly security issues will grow as well. Also, enormous growth in the variety of devices connected to the Internet will further drive security needs. MCC provides a platform where mobile users make use of cloud services on mobile devices. The use of MCC minimizes the performance, compatibility, and lack of resources issues in mobile computing environment.

Mobile Cloud Database Security: Problems and Solutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Ismail ◽  
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Naif El El-Rashidy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Database Security ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Mobile Computing Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cloud Database

The rise in mobile Internet usage and increased reliance on cloud computing have led to increased fear of cloud database security. Mobile cloud computing has emerged as the only promising way of providing solutions for the mobile computing environment, including computation offloading and data binding. This paper discusses the overview of mobile cloud computing features and its prone computing security issues and how to walk over them with the most promising solutions. More specifically, it explores in detail a wide range of threats that may attack the mobile cloud-computing platform and the various devices and applications that work extremely well in supporting and mitigating the wide range of problems related to security issues in mobile applications. Moreover, this paper studies some of the ways to make mobile cloud computing more secure and productive no matter the intensity of the required computation. This study takes into consideration, the most common threats that affect the security issues of the mobile cloud database and its solutions. It is deemed necessary to note that, the duty of various cloud service providers is to keep all mobile cloud data safe. Consequently, they must come up with solutions to the problems affecting the day-to-day mobile cloud database security.

A CUSTOMISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE PODCAST INTEGRATION IN A SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-32
Author(s):  
Shane Pachagadu ◽  
Liezel Nel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education ◽  
Effective Integration

Numerous studies have explored the potential of podcast integration in teaching and learning environments. This paper first presents and organises perspectives from literature in a conceptual framework for the effective integration of podcasting in higher education. An empirical study is then discussed in which the guidelines presented in the framework were evaluated for applicability in a selected course at a South African University of Technology. Since the results of the study revealed a number of aspects not accounted for in the conceptual framework, the framework was customised to make it more applicable for the particular higher education environment. The customised framework identifies four principles and a series of related guidelines for the effective integration of podcasts in a South African higher education teaching and learning environment. This framework can become a valuable resource for effective podcast integration in similar environments.

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