Title :
New Instructional Models for Building Effective Curricula on Cloud Computing Technologies and Engineering
Author :
Demchenko, Y. ; Bernstein, D. ; Belloum, Adam ; Oprescu, Ana ; Wlodarczyk, T.W. ; de Laat, Cees
Author_Institution :
Syst. & Network Eng. Group, Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstract :
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, explaining also importance of the requirements engineering stage that provides a context for cloud based services design. 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.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computer based training; educational courses; educational institutions; formal specification; Bloom taxonomy; CBK-CC; IT professional; University of Amsterdam; University of Stavanger; advanced education; andragogy instructional model; cloud based services design; cloud computing engineering; cloud computing services operation; cloud computing services provisioning; cloud computing technology; common body of knowledge in cloud computing; course materials; curricula profiling; curricula structuring; educational course; instructional models; online training course; professional education; professional training; requirements engineering stage; technical education; Business; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Taxonomy; Training; Andragogy; Blooms Taxonomy; Common Body of Knowledge; Education and Training on Cloud Computing Technologies; Instructional methodology; Intercloud Architcture Framework; Multi-layer Cloud Services Model;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2013 IEEE 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bristol
DOI :
10.1109/CloudCom.2013.160