Cloud storage services in higher education - Results of a preliminary study in the context of the Sync&Share-project in Germany

Meske, C., Stieglitz, S., Vogl, R., Rudolph, D. & Öksüz, A.

Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed

Abstract

In recent years, a growing number of institutions in higher education is in progress to adopt cloud storage services. This paper describes the Sync&Share NRW-project in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) with a target audience of up to 500,000 users and presents the main results of a preliminary large-scale survey at the University of Muenster with more than 3,000 participants. The results of the analysis indicates a very high demand for an on-premise cloud service solution in German higher education with mobile access, a storage volume comparable to commercial offerings, collaborative features such as simultaneous work on text documents and, above all, high data protection standards. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.

Details about the publication

PublisherZaphiris, P., Ioannou, A.
Book titleLearning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing and Developing Novel Learning Experiences. First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part I.
Page range161-171
Publishing companySpringer International Publishing
Title of seriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (ISSN: 0302-9743)
Volume of series8523
StatusPublished
Release year2014
Language in which the publication is writtenEnglish
ISBN9783319074818
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-07482-5_16
Keywordscloud storage services; higher education; technology adoption; trust

Authors from the University of Münster

Meske, Christian
Research Group Communication and Collaboration Management (KUK)
Öksüz, Ayten
Research Training Group 1712 "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World" (GRK 1712)
Rudolph, Dominik
ZIV - Leitungsgruppe
Stieglitz, Stefan
Research Group Communication and Collaboration Management (KUK)
Vogl, Raimund
ZIV - Leitungsgruppe