Managing Teaching and Learning Records in the Commercial Cloud: A Public University Perspective

Cloud Computing (CC) has been gaining significant attention among academics and researchers. Many higher academic institutions are embracing this platform to improve teaching, learning, research and other academic activities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potentiality of creating and preserving of teaching and learning records in the commercial cloud, and propose a framework of SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud service for Dhaka University. Using GoogleApps, this paper proposed that SaaS platform can be used by teachers and students for managing their teaching and learning records. Moreover, both parties can work on the same document, make corrections as well as improve in synchronized ways. The present paper demonstrates that adoption of GoogleApps can increase student participation and access to learning resources for a range of learners in Bangladesh. Organizational support, sufficient training, ICT facilities and proper policy can help to avail the benefit of using cloud service in Dhaka University. So far, in Bangladesh, this is the first study that highlights the prospect of using SaaS platform for managing teaching and learning records in Dhaka University. This may trigger more such research on this area.