The creation and development of educational hypermedia by teachers and educational staff is often limited by their lack of computing skills, time and support from the educational institutions. Especially the lack of computing skills is a hinderance to most of today’s educational experts. The problem is to find out how those educational experts could be supported by computer based tools which ar...

Cloud computing is an evolving and fast-growing computing paradigm that has gained great interest from both industry and academia. Consequently, universities are actively integrating cloud computing into their IT curricula. One major challenge facing cloud computing instructors is the lack of a teaching tool to experiment with. This paper introduces TeachCloud, a modeling and simulation environ...

Historically, the notion of design for educational computing has assumed that the “computer” in question is a desktop box. In this paper we describe a genre of educational computing in which the artifacts designed are “room-sized:” moderate-to-large-scale objects or furnishings with which children can interact in powerful or interesting ways. We describe a working prototype of one such system—S...

Education today is becoming completely associated with the Information Technology on the content delivery, communication and collaboration. The need for servers, storage and software are highly demanding in the universities, colleges and schools. Cloud Computing is an Internet based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on-demand, l...

This paper describes research and educational paradigms of Design Computing and Virtual Architecture. The paper provides examples of research projects and educational programs at the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney, along with preliminary results obtained through different paradigms. These paradigms include cognitive and computational models.

Educational computing based on the primacy of human agency is explored, considering ways in which ower can be apportioned and exercised in order to enhance edw..ational computing. Ideas about power and control are situated epistemologically. A first consideration is educating for human control of computer technology. Research suggests that children and some adults attribute agency to computer t...

The adjective resilient has been used in dependable computing essentially as a synonym of fault-tolerant, thus ignoring the unexpected aspect of the phenomena the systems may have to face. These phenomena are very relevant when moving to systems like the future large, networked, evolving systems constituting complex information infrastructures that are the emergence of the ubiquitous systems th...

Cloud computing is one of the most important trends in technology innovation but its widespread adoption by individual’s remains unexplored. The main purpose of this paper is to examine behavioural intentions towards cloud computing in an educational setting through the use of social cognitive theory. A survey questionnaire was tested amongst a sample of young consumers to develop an understand...