EduCloud: PaaS versus IaaS cloud usage for an advanced computer science course

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 590-598

  Vaquero, Luis M ^a,b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud; course; education; evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; COURSE; COURSE OBJECTIVES; EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL; EVALUATION; MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT; NETWORK NODE; NETWORK OVERLAY; SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80455158409     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2010.2100097     Document Type: Article

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