Interest in cloud computing has grown significantly over the past few years both in the commercial and non-profit sectors. In the commercial sector, various companies have advanced economic arguments for the installation of cloud computing systems to service their clients’ needs. This paper focuses on non-profit educational institutions and analyzes some operational data from the Virtual Comput...

This chapter reports how affective computing (in terms of detection methods and intervention approaches) is considered in e-learning systems. The goal behind is to enrich the personalized support provided in online educational settings by taking into account the influence that emotions and personality have in the learning process. The main contents of the chapter consist in the review of 26 wor...

The objective of this research is to identify the technology of cloud computing in terms of its concept, its development, its objectives, its components, models, classifications, and the advantages of its use in the teaching process at the University of Samarra, as well as to identify the most important challenges and obstacles that teachers face in using University of Samarra. The researcher u...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that access remote servers through Internet to maintain data and applications. It incorporates the advantages of grid and utility computing. Academia has not remained unaware of this trend, and several educational solutions(LMS) based on cloud technologies are already in place, especially for software as a service(SAAS) cloud. Education is a self-enligh...