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Lessons Learned from an Action Research Study on the Use of Cloud Computing in Undergraduate Computer Science Courses

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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2018)

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Abstract

Companies have made efforts to migrate their assets to the cloud aiming to use in a more effective way computing resources to provide services to their market share. However, this is not a trivial task due to the lack of information on how to accomplish the migration, which services should be selected and which providers offer the best cost benefit ratio. This paper presents a study from the point of view of undergraduate students enrolled in System Analysis and Operating Systems courses from the University of Salvador (UNIFACS). The goal is to investigate the learning process in these courses using cloud computing scenarios. The results of this study provided initial evidence that the cloud computing capabilities integrated into the content of the above mentioned courses can contribute to motivate and engage students in the proposed activities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.

  2. 2.

    https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/flipped-classroom.

  3. 3.

    https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images.

  4. 4.

    https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01JBL2I8U.

  5. 5.

    https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity.

  6. 6.

    https://www.virtualbox.org/.

  7. 7.

    http://nodecellar.coenraets.org/.

  8. 8.

    https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo/cloudify-nodecellar-example.

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    http://www.open-emr.org/.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/opencfp/opencfp.

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    https://github.com/mistryrn/taxi-app.

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    https://cloudeduc.github.io/cloudeduc/.

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The first author of this paper received a scholarship from the Bahia Research Foundation (FAPESB) registered as BOL0731/2016.

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    Heleno Cardoso da Silva Filho & Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro

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da Silva Filho, H.C., de Figueiredo Carneiro, G. (2019). Lessons Learned from an Action Research Study on the Use of Cloud Computing in Undergraduate Computer Science Courses. In: Damiani, E., Spanoudakis, G., Maciaszek, L. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22559-9_1

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