Transforming Education through Cloud Technologies: A Review of Accessibility Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Cloud-based solutions have emerged as key instruments for transforming education worldwide. As cloud computing technology keeps growing, more institutions offer courses through these means for their teaching and learning process. The scalability, flexibility, and affordability of this technology ensure that more people can access it to achieve education. This paper discusses how these cloud-based platforms are shaping the future of education, based on their advantages and challenges, and the implications on the development of an interactive, personalized, and collaborative learning environment. Further, it addresses the security, privacy, and infrastructure challenges related to the adoption of cloud solutions in education and talks about the future of education in a cloud-centric world. The introduction of cloud-based solutions is creating a revolution in education across the globe in newer and exciting ways. Increasingly, cloud computing technologies offer alternatives to the way in which businesses and students learn. Such technologies are providing increased education options through affordability, scalable operations, and flexibility. This research endeavors to explore the transformative essence of cloud platforms towards shaping the future of education, throwing light on their merits and demerits along with implications in making learning interactive, personalized and collaborative. Apart from that, it addresses creation of cloud services implementation in education in conjunction with security and privacy aspects. Finally, the impact of cloud computing may change the dimensions of education in terms of its wide adoption.