Building an Experimental Platform for Cloud and Big Data Education

Abstract

The mission of Higher Education is to foster specialized talent with innovative spirit and practical ability. As regards the discipline of computer science, hands-on practice plays a very important role in the process of innovative and quality education. However, with the rapid development of computer technology, traditional computing education is unable to adapt to the current cloud-based environments and large data distributed computing technologies. Currently, distributed computing education only emphasizes theoretical knowledge, and never focuses on practical exercise. In this paper, we present an experimental platform to address this urgent problem. Our platform enables users to perform cloud computing and big data processing technology, whether they are campus students or distance learners. Moreover, our experimental platform can improve students' interest in leaning and build a bridge between campus education and industrial application requirements in distributed computing technologies. The experimental results show that students may have high self satisfaction and satisfaction with their company while training on this platform.