Moving Education to Cloud: A pilot Study in Montenegrin Higher Education

• Authors: Sanja Bauk

Abstracts

EN

The paper considers challenges of moving education into Cloud under the conditions of digital divide. The content of the paper is divided into two parts. In the first one, the focus is on digital divide, since it greatly affects the issue. In the second part, a model for adapting Cloud in higher educational environment is proposed, with the emphasise on the needs of so-called developing countries, which suffer consequences of digital inequality. The statistical analyses of the survey conducted on the basis of the proposed model have been made at two universities in Montenegro (South-East Europe). Moreover, brief conclusions along with some guidelines for the future research work in the field are given.

Keywords

EN

education; digital divide; developing countries; model for adopting Cloud

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 186-198

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Sanja Bauk

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.50.4.15

Biblioteka Nauki

1997450