2. School Cloud Professor Kam-Fai Wong Managing Director, School Net Cum Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering, CUHK

3. Presentation Outline (1) About School Net (2) Pressure of Teachers (Schools) (3) Learning Interest & Efficiency of Students (4) What is Cloud Computing? (5) School Cloud (6) Conclusion

4. (1) About School Net Our Background Founded in 2000, the Hong Kong School Net Limited is a 100% subsidiary of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our Missions M1to develop innovative information technology; M2to help schools to apply I.T. solutions in education; M3to raise the learning interest and efficiency of students; M4to reduce the workload and pressure of teachers.

5. (2) Workload & Pressure of Teachers (ref. M4) Advancement to new modes of teaching: e-learning, e-book, social networking, demand-based learning, green education, etc. Hardware and software upgrade Hardware and software utility and efficiency Insufficient technical support etc

6. (3) Learning Interest & Efficiency of Students (ref M3) Don Tapscott, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”, 2008 entertainment, collaboration, freedom, customization, scrutiny, innovation, integrity and speed

7. (4) What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing provides: Computation, software, data access, and storage services that: –Do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location, and –Do not require configuration of the system that delivers the services (cf. electric grid)

8. (4) What is Cloud Computing? (cont’d) Cloud Computing supports: –Resource sharing –Service oriented computing –Virtualization –Scalability –On-demand access –Green computing –Minimum maintenance

9. (4) What is Cloud Computing? (cont’d) Cloud Computing architecture SaaS (Software as a Service) PaaS (Platform as a Service) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

10. (4) What is Cloud Computing? (cont’d) Types of Clouds: Private Cloud (large enterprise) Public Cloud – Commercial (SMEs) – Community Cloud (NGOs) – School Cloud (schools)

11. (5) School Cloud Proposed by School Net: SaaS: SchoolExercise, SchoolCommunity PaaS: SchoolLearn, SchoolWeb IaaS: SchoolArchiver, SchoolStorage

12. (6) Conclusion IT in Education (ref M2): –School Wall –Cloud Computing Innovation and Technology (ref M1) : –EagleEye, Learning Village, Farmtasia, VeriGuide (CUHK R&D)

13. ~The End~ Thank you!