A Survey: Mobile Cloud Computing in Education

A new digital technology that is expected to transform the education sector is Cloud computing. Cloud computing has many advantages like simple sharing, fast deployment, reduced cost and convenient processing. The main goal of this paper is to bring out the impact of Cloud computing on the Education system. Nowadays, the usage of mobile phones is increasing day by day and thus they are becoming an essential part of human life. Mobile phones are a very efficient and portable mode of communication which can be used at any time in any place. Most of the applications in mobile phones are connected to cloud like Google cloud for Gmail, Apple iCloud in iPhones and a few others in the education sector information technology plays a vital role. Due to the increase in the educational resources, there should be an architecture developed which should not only store large amounts of data but also process it. Mobile cloud computing is a new approach in education for both teachings as well as learning. Mobile cloud computing is beneficial to educational institutes to store educational data and to help people to access the data at any time from anywhere.