5 Reasons Now's the Time to Move Learning to the Cloud
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5 Reasons Now is the Right Time to Move Learning to the Cloud
Enterprise Thinking vs Cloud Thinking
Over 60% of higher education institutions report that they are currently reviewing, converting to, or running their LMS in the Cloud.
- The Campus Computing Project: 2014 National Survey of Computing and Information Technology in US Higher Education
60%
Enterprise Thinking vs Cloud Thinking
• Dedicated, high-availability environments
• Infrastructure failure is challenging and avoided
• Designed for solidity
• Manual processes
• Infrequently updated
• Monolithic change
Enterprise
• Commodity, fungible environments
• Infrastructure failure is expected and embraced
• Designed for resilience
• Automated processes
• Frequently updated
• Granular change
Cloud
vs.
Why Cloud? Why Now?
Flexibility
Scalability & Elasticity
Reliability
Innovation & Change Management
Big Data
FlexibilityOverview
• Heavy virtualization
• New resources can be spun up (or spun down) in minutes or even seconds
Rapid Provisioning
• Cloud services designed for highly scaled, shared management of resources
• Redundancy leads to durability
Resource Sharing
FlexibilityBlackboard Cloud Architecture
• Multi-tenant architecture
• Rapid provisioning supports both horizontal and vertical scaling of Learn
Scalability & ElasticityOverview
• Dynamic provisioning of resources in response to system performance
• Scale either horizontally or vertically
Auto-Scaling & Elasticity
• Move the content to the “edges” of the network
• Reduce latency
Content Delivery Networks
Scalability & ElasticityBlackboard Cloud Architecture
• Expand to meet demands of peak periods
• Reduced latency through Amazon CloudFront
Reliability Overview
• Built for resilience
• Increased reliance on monitoring
Fault Tolerant Application Design
• Vulnerability detection
• Self-healing environments
Deployment Automation
Reliability Blackboard Cloud Architecture
• Self-healing environment
• End-to-end automation ensures consistency and quality
• Zero downtime updates with very high success rates
• Native denial of service protection
Innovation & Change ManagementOverview
• Always current
• Painless updates
Software as a Service
• Test-driven development
• Ready to deploy at any time
Continuous Integration
• Smaller releases = less change management
• Feature toggles
Change Management
Innovation & Change ManagementBlackboard Cloud Architecture
• Rapid delivery of updates
– Incremental updates on a regular schedule
– Less change management
– Faster bug fixes
– Appropriate feature controls to manage change
Big DataOverview
• The three “V’s” – high Volume, high Velocity, high Variety
• Modern technologies designed for big data sets
Characteristics
• Student retention
• Data-driven decision making
Why Big Data?
Big DataBlackboard Cloud Architecture
• Re-tooling our collection of data and our instrumentation
• Cross-product data stores
• Individualized reporting for faculty and students where they need it, when they need it
– No more “reporting backwater”
Physical & Network SecurityTo protect your infrastructure & the mission-critical information it contains
Data SecurityTo recover lost data and restore courses
RedundancyTo limit the effects of “anything” going wrong
ReliabilityTo maintain the system if the physical surroundings are compromised in any way
ScalabilityTo enable and support growth
People & ProcessesTo effectively & efficiently support the environment 24x7x365
Monitoring PracticesTo track and report what is happening on the network and ensure responsiveness
Change ManagementTo ensure ongoing successful utilization of the technology
Critical Factors to Consider in ManagingYour Online Learning Environment
Is someone available every night and weekend to handle problems that may arise??
Do you have enough people on staff with the expertise needed to successfully support this mission-critical environment??
If any one person is out sick or leaves, is there someone else who is trained, ready, and able to perform his or her duties? ?
Are there more strategic or mission-critical projects that you / your team could be working on if you had more time? ?
Do you have peace of mind when it comes to managing your learning environment or are you bogged down in minutiae??
Blackboard’s Approach
Rethink Teaching and Learning And the Business of Education
Program Selection
& Marketing
Student Support
& Retention
Learning Delivery
Career Placement
Learning CoreTraditional learning delivery
Learning Environments to meet varied student and institutional needs
Learning InsightMeasuring effectiveness of online and traditional programs
Learning EssentialsOffering online courses and programs
Learning Insight & Student RetentionDeveloping strategy and tactics to maximize student retention
Expanded Cloud Strategy
UserExperience
MobileFirst
Big Data
Key Focus Areas
Blackboard and the Cloud
Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Connect
Blackboard Engage
K12 Central
xpLor SafeAssign MyEduBlackboard Transact eAccounts
Already a major providerof cloud services to education:
Our seven data centers onfour continents represents the largest private cloud in education world-wide
Learner-CentricSolutions
In Development
In Development
In Development
In Design
In Design
Improved customer experienceZero downtime updates
Better innovation and market responsivenessGet enhancements and new features more quickly
Higher quality Get fixes and maintenance to you more quickly
Easier change managementSmall updates instead of monolithic releases
Delightful user experienceLearner-centric interface coming to the Cloud
Better supportLess variety of versions, environments
How to Summarize & Communicate the Benefits