Cloud Computing competencies questionnaire

Journal of Positive Management, 2020

Cloud computing as a relatively new information and communication technology (ICT) introduces a change in the way companies conduct business by offering them new opportunities. Organizations operating on the market that decide to implement cloud computing solutions in their daily work must take into account the size of the changes. Such a change, although it seems to be only a technological change, also affects the change of the company's technological processes, which is not without an impact on the organization of the company, also causing changes in its structure. In the face of such extensive changes in the company, the competences of employees must also change. The research question posed for the purpose of this study concerns the methods of acquiring new competences by employees, necessary in the face of a change in the organization in the form of the implementation of cloud solutions for everyday work. The results of the conducted research indicate that the most commonly used method is the training of key users (used in 59.25% of the 400 companies surveyed). Other significant statistical data are presented in the article. Purpose: The research question posed for the purpose of this study concerns the methods of acquiring new competences by employees, necessary in the face of a change in the organization in the form of the implementation of cloud solutions for everyday work in Polish production companies. Methodology: The CATI survey (computer-assisted telephone interviewing) was used as the research method with the return rate of 0.7966% (400 companies). Findings: The results of the conducted research indicate that the most commonly used method is the training of key users (used in 59.25% of the surveyed companies). Only 0.0225 of the surveyed companies use "other" methods than the proposals listed in the survey to improve competences (key users training, all users training, learning by reading manuals and e-learning training), which leads to questions about the reason for such a low diversity of introduced methods. Implications/limitations: The conducted research helps to determine the method of raising the competences most frequently used by companies during cloud implementation. Outcomes also allow practitioners to customize the training offer of competences rising directed to key users. 19 SOURCES OF IMPROVEMENT OF USERS' Magdalena Zalewska-Turzyńska The type of necessary competences may be an important criterion for choosing the method of obtaining them-this needs verification. Moreover covid situation has changed attitude towards remote methods of raising employee competences (this also needs further research). Originality/value: This paper contains the results of research on the methods chosen by employers to raise employee competences when implementing cloud solutions in Polish manufacturing companies.

Proceedings of the 2021 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2021

Three previous Working Groups (WGs) met at ITiCSE conferences to explore ways to help educators incorporate cloud computing into their courses and curricula by mapping industry job skills to knowledge areas (KAs). These WGs identified, organized, and grouped together student learning objectives (LOs) and developed these KAs and LOs in a repository of learning materials and course exemplars.

Cloud computing is a new technology. CC is an online service can store and retrieve information, without the requirement for physical access to the files on hard drives. The information is available on a system, server where it can be accessed by clients when it's needed. Lack of the ICT infrastructure of universities of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) can use this new technology, because of economical advantages, enhanced data managements, better maintenance, high performance, improve availability and accessibility therefore achieving an easy maintenance of organizational institutes. The aim of this research is to find the ability and possibility to implement the cloud computing in higher education of the KRG. This research will help the universities to start establishing a cloud computing in their services. A survey has been conducted to evaluate the CC services that have been applied to KRG universities have by using cloud computing services. The results showed that the most of KRG universities are using SaaS. MHE-KRG universities and institutions are confronting many challenges and concerns in term of security, user privacy, lack of integration with current systems, and data and documents ownership.

2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2013

This paper presents ongoing work to develop advanced education and training course on the Cloud Computing technologies foundation and engineering by a cooperating group of universities and the professional education partners. The central part of proposed approach is the Common Body of Knowledge in Cloud Computing (CBK-CC) that defines the professional level of knowledge in the selected domain and allows consistent curricula structuring and profiling. The paper presents the structure of the course and explains the principles used for developing course materials, such as Bloom's Taxonomy applied for technical education, and andragogy instructional model for professional education and training. The paper explains the importance of using the strong technical foundation to build the course materials that can address interests of different categories of stakeholders and roles/responsibilities in the Cloud Computing services provisioning and operation. The paper provides a short description of summary of the used Cloud Computing related architecture concepts and models that allow consistent mapping between CBK-CC, stakeholder roles/responsibilities and required skills. The paper refers to the ongoing development of the educational course on Cloud Computing at the University of Amsterdam, University of Stavanger and provides suggestions for building advanced online training course for IT professionals.

International Conference on Education, 2017

With the recent advances in technology and computing, it has become vital to update and revise the curriculum for Computer Science undergraduate students. The curriculum should meet the challenges and requirements of the industry by providing state of the art knowledge to the students. The main goal of any professional degree is to produce skilled graduates who can compete successfully in the job market. The traditional taught curriculum does fulfil the degree requirements, though it needs to be compatible with new industry trends as well. This paper is an attempt to highlight the importance of introducing new computing courses and certifications by having Academic Alliance between Educational Institutes and leading Industry partners. This is supported by discussing the Academic Alliance of College of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CCSE), University of Hail (UoH), with top leading industry partner like Egan Marino Corporation (EMC 2). Various aspects of this alliance resulting in offering new elective course in the curriculum and as certified training course will be mentioned. Additionally, a survey was conducted to take students' feedback regarding such certified courses. The paper will discuss in detail the outcomes of the survey in addition to the results of the courses offered as part of this alliance

Volume 1, Issue 2, 2020

The cloud computing is becoming an adoptable technology for many organizations with its dynamic scalability and usage of virtualized resources as a service, through the internet. Cloud computing has a significant impact on the educational environment, it's an excellent alternative for educational institutions which are especially under budget shortage in order to operate their information systems effectively without spending any more capital for the computers and network devices. Tertiary institutions take advantage of available cloud-based applications offered by the service providers and enable users to perform business and academic tasks. This paper will review the cloud computing infrastructure in the educational arena, especially in the tertiary institutions where the use of computers are more intensive and what can be done to increase the benefit of common applications for Academic staff, students, lecturers faculty staff, developers, researchers as well as governmental and private sector. The cloud is a combination of technological resources such as networks, servers and applications in a common tertiary educational series of services and storage to their specific needs. The objectives of this research were to synthesize the features, elements, develop models, and evaluate the models of cloud computing Resource Management in Tertiary Education. The research findings were as follows: the models Resource Management in Tertiary Education by cloud computing technology comprised of 6 elements: Cloud Computing Technology, Curriculum, Center, Connectivity, Client and Consumer, which are called C6. It is a very popular technology in the present time to be used for administration in tertiary education of Nigerian tertiary institutions. It is the integration and sharing common resources of computer technology including software, hardware and database, the results evaluated by 3 experts showed that the model of cloud computing Resource Management in Tertiary Education system had appropriateness at a high level. Advance in technology offers new opportunities in enhancing teaching and learning. The new technologies enable individuals to personalize the environment in which they work or learn a range of tools to meet their interests and needs. Nature and educational potential of cloud computing in order to exploit the affordance of its impact in teaching and learning in a tertiary education context. It is evident that cloud computing has a significant place in the tertiary education landscape both as a ubiquitous computing tool and a powerful platform. Although, the adoption of cloud computing promises various benefits to an organization, a successful adoption of cloud computing in an organization, particularly in educational institutes requires an understanding of different dynamics and expertise in diverse domains. This paper aims at providing the impact and challenges of Cloud Computing in Tertiary Education.

Leading research directions are defined on the basis of self-analysis of the study results on the use of cloud technologies in training by employees of joint research laboratory “Сloud technologies in education” of Kryvyi Rih National University and Institute of Information Technology and Learning Aids of the NAES of Ukraine in 2009-2018: cloud learning technologies, cloud technologies of blended learning, cloud-oriented learning environments, cloud-oriented methodological systems of training, the provision of cloud-based educational services. The ways of implementation SaaS, PaaS, IaaS cloud services models which are appropriate to use in the process of studying the academic disciplines of the cycles of mathematical, natural science and professional and practical training of future specialists in information technology are shown, based on the example of software engineering, computer science and computer engineering. The most significant advantages of using cloud technologies in tr...

Collaborative Research for Excellence in Economics and Social Sciences

Cloud computing is an innovative technology that enables users to remotely access and use computer hardware and software via the Internet. This technology can bring different resources such as storage, servers, processing, networking and applications to end users, institutions, businesses and academics. The applications of cloud computing are very broad and can provide multiple modes of learning delivery and communication between students and teachers for free or at low cost. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits associated with using cloud computing applications in higher education, as well as to consider its challenges. Therefore, the paper presents a review of the existing literature on cloud computing and their applications for learning. The study also aims to investigate the students' awareness and use of cloud computing applications. The empirical data was collected through an online questionnaire applied to the graduate students of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) was used for quantitative data analysis. The results of this exploratory research show that students know about cloud computing applications, but they do not use cloud applications/services on a regular basis. These findings allow to make suggestions for future research directions and recommendations regarding students' adoption of cloud computing applications as part of their education.

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2020

The present study aims to develop the skills of the cloud computing applications and the knowledge economy among the university students by designing a participatory electronic learning environment. A sample was chosen from the students of the “General Diploma” in the Faculty of Education, King Khalid University. This sample was divided into two groups; experimental group that comprised of 15 students trained through the participatory e-learning environment; whereas, the control group comprised of 17 students, who were trained through the Blackboard Learning Management System. Skills for cloud computing applications and a knowledge economy skills scale were developed. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Mann was used for identifying the normality test of variables. Whitney test and Spearman correlation test were used to analyze the results, which indicated that the design of a participatory e-learning environment based on the theory of communication contributed to improve the skills level of cloud c...

International journal of business and social science, 2014

Cloud computing is a nascent but fast growing innovation that has attracted increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners as a new Information Technology (IT) paradigm. Cloud computing cannot be sufficiently understood as a standalone phenomenon in the IT market, but rather as a core ingredient of a larger transformation of the IT industry that impacts the entire IT ecosystem. Due to the change from enterprise computing to cloud computing, organizations and individuals need to develop new skills and competencies. Extant literature in cloud computing has mainly focused on its affordances and challenges with scant attention given to organizational resources that enable efficient and effective adoption. This paper addresses how organizations can identify their own local cloud adoption challenges and how to overcome those challenges by developing new competencies. The paper draws on resource-based theory to propose new organizational competencies required for seamless mig...