Cloud Computing and the Benefits of Online Distance Learning
Online distance learning is growing at an incredible pace. Academic faculty and students have understood the importance of acquiring and implementing online classes and courses to improve upon the existing academic setting and start getting more students compared to ‘brick and mortar’ classrooms.
Moodle, Sakai, etc. are used on a large scale to organize classes over the internet. These Learning Management Systems are Cloud-based, which means they are freely accessible from any corner of the globe. Cloud computing has brought in revolutionary changes in the way all kinds of businesses functioned in the pre-cloud computing days.
Cloud-based solutions come with some great advantages such as:
- Round the clock accessibility from any remote location
- No buying or installing of any software or hardware on your PC
- Huge space to capture and store numerical data and text-based information
- Cost-effective, with no set up, activation or subscription charges
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