Educating for modern cloud technologies in a platform-agnostic fashion

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Abstract

It is essential to provide computing students with hands-on exposure to modern techniques and technologies such as cloud computing. To this end we engaged with industry to co-design a curriculum for modern cloud computing to meet the industry needs for graduates. Vendors do provide access to cloud computing but their academic programs often leave much to be desired, with limited credits and features or a requirement to buy-in to their platform entirely. In the resource-constrained university sector simply buying vendor credits for students would be expensive but also wasteful as there is no capital investment. Having engaged with industrial partners to identify core theoretical skills and a subset of topics in which specific platform experience would be desirable we co-designed learning outcomes and assessments. To provide financially efficient platform-agnostic experience a private cloud was built using open-source tools which allowed a new large final year module. Having run this module for two full years and had excellent student feedback we reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and how industrial engagement cannot be a one-off, in a changing field it must be continuously performed to allow the curriculum to be refreshed and support emerging topics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Education and New Developments Conference 2022
EditorsMafalda Carmo
PublisherinScience Press
Pages269-273
Volume2
ISBN (Print)9789895361458
Publication statusPublished - 01 Oct 2022
EventInternational Conference on Education and New Developments - Portugal
Duration: 18 Jun 202220 Jun 2022
https://end-educationconference.org/

Publication series

NameEducation and New Developments: Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2184-044X
ISSN (Electronic)2184-1489

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Education and New Developments
Abbreviated titleEND
Period18/06/202220/06/2022
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