Cloud Computing and its Impact on Online Education

Abstract

Abstract The cloud computing system has a significant role in the distance education field, because it is an important tributary of virtual education, especially mobile and blended education. Perhaps, the only challenge that must be overawed is the comprehensive coverage of rapid access to the Internet. So, the student can benefit from the applications that we will call from now and onward cloud computing services. There is no need to establish evidence to emphasize the importance of employing technological innovations to develop educational practices for developing educational curricula in Iraqi universities, but it is vital to employ technological innovations in the educational process, and this must be related to overcoming the problems facing the educational process. Therefore, employment should not be for technological dazzling that often accompanies technological innovations, but employment must be a function of urgent needs or demands. In this study, the educational process concept, with its multiple cloud inputs and outputs, was discussed how the education crisis could be overcome in all its institutions by resorting to how to employ the electronic cloud in distance education. This study also examined all the specifications of that environment and the possibility of their application in colleges and educational institutions.