Abstract
This study investigates the impact and challenges of the adoption of cloud computing by public universities in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. A sample size of 100 IT staff, 50 para-IT staff and 50 students were selected in each university using stratified sampling techniques with the aid of well-structured questionnaires. Microsoft excel was used to capture the data while frequency and percentage distributions were used to analyze it. In all, 2, 000 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the ten (10) public universities in the southwestern part of Nigeria while 1742 copies were returned which represents a respondent rate of 87.1%. The result of the findings revealed that the adoption of cloud computing has a significant impact on cost effectiveness, enhanced availability, low environmental impact, reduced IT complexities, mobility, scalability, increased operability and reduced investment in physical asset However, the major challenges confronting the adoption of cloud are data insecurity, regulatory compliance concerns, lock-in and privacy concerns. This paper concludes by recommending strategies to manage the identified challenges in the study area.
Highlights
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform introducing new methods of teaching and conducting research as well as provisioning of educational facilities for online learning, teaching and research collaboration
Alese, Thompson and Aranuwa [3] stressed that ICT is a versatile tool for running a smooth and efficient university system, giving support in areas such as lecture delivery, private studies, information disseminations, program planning and execution, communication at different levels, crisis prevention and management
Questionnaire for the evaluation of the impact and challenges of cloud computing adoption and use by Universities in Southwestern, Nigeria is provided at the appendix section after the references
Summary
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform introducing new methods of teaching and conducting research as well as provisioning of educational facilities for online learning, teaching and research collaboration It represents a potentially equalizing strategy for developing countries. When power is rarely supplied, the admirable goals of transforming education with ICT and taking a paradigm shift in education is all a dream; having access to educational resources on demand, anytime, anyhow and anywhere is a story and e-learning would not be sustained either [5] Sequel to these challenges, the adoption of cloud computing, a service-oriented alternative to ICT provisioning and deployment, with the potential to yield low cost, improved efficiency and availability become imperative in Universities. Questionnaire for the evaluation of the impact and challenges of cloud computing adoption and use by Universities in Southwestern, Nigeria is provided at the appendix section after the references
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