Academic case study from RGU on using cloud services in teaching and research.

1. Teaching cloud to the
programmers of tomorrow
AN ACADEMIC CASE STUDY
@Mike_crabb
Robert Gordon University

3. USE OF CLOUD ACROSS
OPERATIONS AT RGU
ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT
TEACHING WEB PROGRAMMING
(AND MORE) ON CLOUD SERVERS
USING CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS FOR
RESEARCH AND TESTING

4. LECTURER AT RGU ABERDEEN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIGITAL MEDIA
CM1016 - COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CM3028 - WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CM3006 - INTERNET BASED PROGRAMMING
CM4007 - INTELLIGENT WEB SYSTEMS
CMM007 - INTRANET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
CMM503 - WEB SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCHER
RGUX - ROBERT GORDON USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH GROUP
ACCESSIBLE GAMES / BOARD GAMES
UX OF ACCESSIBLE SERVICES (WITH BBC R&D)

5. LECTURER AT RGU ABERDEEN
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIGITAL MEDIA
CM1016 - COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CM3028 - WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CM3006 - INTERNET BASED PROGRAMMING
CM4007 - INTELLIGENT WEB SYSTEMS
CMM007 - INTRANET SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
CMM503 - WEB SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCHER
RGUX - ROBERT GORDON USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH GROUP
web development
ACCESSIBLE GAMES / BOARD GAMES
UX OF ACCESSIBLE SERVICES (WITH BBC R&D)

6. TEACHING WEB PROGRAMMING
(AND MORE) ON CLOUD SERVERS

7. WEBDEV SERVER
Pre-2014

8. WEBDEV SERVER
Pre-2014

9. WEBDEV SERVER
LAMP SERVER
Pre-2014

10. TIME FOR A SHIFT
INTO THE CLOUD

11. WEBDEV SERVER
LAMP SERVER

14. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)

15. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)

16. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
Chance to level the playing field
students work in teams across
degree streams
new emphasis on html5 and using
web frameworks
work with local charities /
businesses

17. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
focus on learning git, how to use
this successfully in projects

18. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work in teams across
degree streams
interacting with external APIs
students have to come up with
project idea

19. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
continuous deployment from
Github to Microsoft azure
Microsoft ‘webapp’ option

20. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
year long paid
placement with
industry
work on a variety
of projects, not
necessarily cloud
based
optional year
students come back
with a better
understanding of
what they want to
do

21. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work in teams across
degree streams
creating web applications that
interact with a database
project idea based around a
predetermined task

22. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
continuous deployment from
Github to Microsoft azure
Microsoft ‘webapp’ and clearDB

23. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)

24. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students work individually on
a web project
creation of a web application
and deployment of web server
increased focus on securing
systems

25. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
students get $100 of credit
for 6 months

26. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
Make
Break
Fix stuff

27. 1ST YEAR
HTML
& CSS
2ND YEAR
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
3RD YEAR
PLACEMENT
YEAR
5TH YEAR
server
deployment
HONOURS
YEAR
4TH YEAR
PHP &
MYSQL
DEGREE
YEAR
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)

28. HTML
& CSS
JAVASCRIPT
& APIs
server
deployment
PHP &
MYSQL
(soon to be node &
MongoDB)
database
systems
new trends in
computing
securing
web systems
IOT
Computing

29. honours
project
DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION
TWITCH VIEWER ANALYSIS TOOL
ONLINE COLLABORATIVE RPG
BOARD GAMES
ARDUINO CONTROLLED
HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
COLLABORATIVE VISUALISATION
OF OIL DATA

30. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
STUDENTS

31. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
STUDENTS
PROJECT TIME

32. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
STUDENTS
PROJECT TIME EMPLOYABILITY

33. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
STUDENTS
PROJECT TIME EMPLOYABILITY COLLABORATION

34. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
LECTURING STAFF

35. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
LECTURING STAFF
SECURITY

36. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
LECTURING STAFF
SECURITY STABILITY

37. HOW USING THE CLOUD IMPACTS
LECTURING STAFF
SECURITY STABILITY TRACKABILITY

38. USING CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS FOR
RESEARCH AND TESTING

49. COLLABORATION IS KEY

50. COLLABORATION IS KEY
SHARING CODE
SHARING DATA
SHARING IDEAS

51. COLLABORATION IS KEY
SHARING CODE
SHARING DATA
SHARING IDEAS
HAVE TO BE
FLEXIBLE IN THE
SERVICES WE USE

52. COLLABORATION IS KEY
SHARING CODE
SHARING DATA
SHARING IDEAS
HAVE TO BE
FLEXIBLE IN THE
SERVICES WE USE
NO-ONE-SIZE-FITS-
ALL SOLUTION
AVAILABLE

53. Teaching cloud to the
programmers of tomorrow
AN ACADEMIC CASE STUDY
@Mike_crabb
Robert Gordon University