Study on Service Models of Digital Textbooks in Cloud Computing Environment for SMART Education

Abstract

We live in a knowledge-based information society where a new technology emerges overnight and new information is produced every day. Our current shift towards a more digital world has led to an inevitable increase in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. With the development of innovative technology, educational content, methods of teaching and learning, educational environments, and the roles of teachers and schools can be changed. However, despite numerous efforts to improve educational standards, school systems around the world are struggling to meet the demands of the 21st century learners and employers. Climate change has also affected education. Therefore, the need for learning – and the way people learn – is changing faster than before. The paradigm shift to a world of the 21st century learning is rooted in a set of goals for all learners. SMART education is a creativity-focused, customized system for developing new ways to learn by using up-to-date technology like cloud computing, and enables students to study with various materials based on their aptitudes and intellectual levels using mobile Digital Textbook at anytime, anywhere and on any devices. This paper examines various ways of content development for digital textbook, service provision, and service delivery, and suggests the most suitable model in a cloud computing environment in order to propose a suitable service model for Digital Textbook in the cloud computing environment.