The implementation of highly scalable, easy-to-deploy technology is radically transforming educational models and student engagement. For education, the cloud offers not only cost savings and agility, but the opportunity to develop breakthroughs in research, accelerate learning, enhance educational models, and increase student engagement. The “always-up, always-on" infrastructure supports next generation education. Learn the practical strategies being deployed by venerable universities and startup educational technology companies for breaking down barriers to delivering content, accessing information, and overcoming economics to meet students where they are. This session will highlight how cloud can accelerate breakthroughs in educational models and learning outcomes by providing on-demand access to powerful computing. Vincent Quah, Business Development Lead for the Education, Research and Not For Profit , Amazon Web Services, WWPS APJ

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Vincent Quah, BD Lead – Education, Research and
NPO
28 April 2016
Next Generation Education
Technology in the Classroom and Beyond

2. What to Expect from the Session
Why AWS for Education
Business of Education
Teaching and Learning
Accelerating Science, Open Data and AWS Educate

3. AWS provides broad and deep services to
support any cloud workload
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

4. Deploy faster wherever you like

5. AWS is Leader and Visionary
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide
Source: Gartner (May 2015)
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide,”
Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, May 18, 2015. This Magic Quadrant
graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and
should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is
available at http://aws.amazon.com/resources/analyst-reports/. Gartner does
not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research
publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research
publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and
should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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6. AWS in the Public Sector
5,000+
educational
institutions
2,000+
government
agencies
17,500+
nonprofit
organizations
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7. Used by Government Agencies & Educational Institutions
Worldwide

8. AWS is Architected for Government Security Requirements
Certifications and accreditations for
workloads that matter – Compliant Solutions
AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config –
Call logging and configuration
management for governance and
compliance
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• Log, review, alarm
on all user actions
• Browse-and-query
database of current
and previous state
of cloud resources
MTCS

9. “AWS is the First global cloud
service provider to achieve the
highest certification level under
MTCS Level 3, which gives
organizations the clarity to
utilize AWS to host and process
their Highly Confidential Data in
Singapore”
Multi-Tiered Cloud Security Standard Certification (MTCS)

10. Organizations Can’t Afford to Be Slow
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Old World:
Infrastructure adapted in
WEEKS
AWS:
Infrastructure adapted in
MINUTES
Add new dev environment
Add new prod environment
Add new environment in Japan
Add 1,000 servers
Remove 1,000 servers
Deploy 1 PB data warehouse
Shut down 1 PB data warehouse
A new level of agility
transforms your
operations

11. Governments use AWS for Innovation
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With on-premises
operations:
• Experimenting is infrequent
• Failure is expensive
• Innovation is diminished
• Experiment often
• Fail quickly at a low cost
• Innovation increases

12. Education’s New Normal
#3 on the CIO’s Priority List
Source: Gartner, 2015 CIO Agenda: A Higher Education Perspective

13. Time to Results
Access infrastructure
in minutes
Low Cost
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Elastic
Easily add or remove capacity
Globally Accessible
Easily Collaborate with
Users around the world
Secure
A collection of tools to
protect data and privacy
Scalable
Access to effectively
limitless capacity
Why do Education customers love using AWS?

14. Business of Education
Supporting the mission of Education for Institutions

15. Business of Education
• Public & Departmental Websites
• Development & Test Environments
• ERP Systems
• Data Analytics
• Student Information System Software
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Center Migrations
• Storage & Backup

16. • UND migrated website and global student and
faculty authentication store to AWS with plans to
move 80% of its workloads in the next three years.
• UND Reports 40% savings on IT operational costs
annually.
We are confident in saying that
the AWS infrastructure has
performed exactly as intended.
Sharif Nijim
Enterprise Application Architect,
University of Notre Dame
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Supporting Business of Education (examples)
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) needed to replace its
legacy applications and decided to use AWS to run its new analytics
platform as well as several administrative workloads. By using AWS,
UMUC improved the performance of its analytics platform by twentyfold
and enabled its engineers to focus on building new applications instead of
managing IT infrastructure.
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana is the largest community college in
the United States. About 170,000 students register for classes each year;
school maintains a student database with about 1.7 million records. School
needed to scale existing systems, including operational data store (ODS). By
leveraging AWS: Queries complete in as little as three seconds, down
from 40 minutes; Licensing and monthly operational costs are about 60
percent less.

17. PeopleSoft Campus - Open Universities Australia
Move from Active/DR to Active/Active
• No idle infrastructure
• Reduced failure impact
• Release DR licenses
• Remove custom DR configuration complexity
• Provide inherent DR capability
Move from Oracle RAC to Oracle on RDS
• Remove RAC licensing cost
• Reduce provisioned infrastructure
• Reduce complexity
• Reduce management overhead
• Same PeopleSoft
software stack
• Deployed to AWS
• Deployed across 2
Availability Zones
• Oracle on RDS

18. Universities All-In on AWS (examples)

19. Online Teaching / Learning Solutions
• Lecture Capture
• Learning / Course Management Systems
• Distance Learning
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
• Student Lab Environments
• Virtual Desktop / Virtual Application Delivery
• 21st Century Learning & Collaboration

20. Precision Learning
Data informed, personalized pathways for student
success

21. Generation Collection &
Storage
Analytics &
Computation
Collaboration &
Sharing

22. Ivy Tech Meets Petabyte-scale Database Needs
Using AWS
• Needed to scale systems to efficiently manage,
analyze tens of thousands of student records
• Uses Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 as foundation for
analytics services
• Easily scales to manage petabyte-scale database
needs
• Queries completed in as little as three seconds, down
from 40 minutes in the past
• Millions of dollars less expensive to acquire than
other data warehouse solutions
"We could not find any other
database service that offers the
affordability, scalability, and
responsiveness that we get with
AWS."
Lige Hensley
Chief Technology Officer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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23. www.echo360.com
ENHANCING THE LEARNING MOMENT
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24. Agenda
The Echo360 platform
SaaS Efficiencies using AWS Cloud Services
Key Technologies Deployed for Echo360 in AWS
Capture Learning, not just Lectures
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25. Echo360 in 30+ countries – The Active Learning Leader
750+
schools
11,000
classrooms
3MIL
students
47MIL
views/term
Designed for Educators by Educators
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26. Echo360 with Powers the Modern Classroom
Teach
as you always do
and use new data
to intervene or
adjust proactively
Engage
with instructor, peers,
content on personal
device before, during
and after class
Succeed
better engagement +
better insight =
improved outcomes
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27. Standalone Tools Can’t Provide
Comprehensive Actionable Student Data
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
The Smart Choice
LECTURE CAPTURE
COLLABORATION & SOCIAL LEARNING
LEARNING LIBRARY & PUBLISHING
BIG DATA & LEARNING ANALYTICS
DISTANCE LEARNING & MOOCs
Choice 1The Usual Approach
Echo360 delivers a full range of integrated capabilities to deliver a complete
view of academic performance and outcomes at the student level
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The Echo360 platform

28. Echo360 Provides Learning Data No One Else Can
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29. www.echo360.com
Behavioural Analytics that provide new visibility
on students every day
‘FitBit for the
classroom’
Polls & Assessments
Questions
Study Guides
Notes
Class Review
Learner Analytics
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30. www.echo360.com
Instructional
Content
Management
Student
Engagement
Learner
Analytics &
Dashboards
Capture &
Remote
Learning
Only Echo360 Combines the Essential Active
Learning Components in a Unified Platform
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Video: https://vimeo.com/99745610

31. Persistent
Learning
Easy
Adoption
 Before
 During
 After
 No Instructor
Change
Required
 Flexibility of
Teaching Styles
SaaS Efficiencies using AWS Cloud Services
SaaS
Efficiencies
 Reliable
 Scalable
 Economical
 Redundant
 Seamless
Upgrades
 Single
Codebase
Actionable Data
 Study Practices
 Note Taking
 Highlighting
 Collaboration
 Testing
Open
Architecture
 Easy
integrations
 Enable 3rd party
apps
 Support custom
building blocks
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32. Key Technologies Deployed for Echo360 in
AWS
EC2 S3
ELB DynamoDB
SES SQS
CloudFront CloudWatch
Availability
Zones
IAM/MFA
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33. www.echo360.com
Face-to-Face
Synchronous
Remote
Asynchronous
Remote
Learning Moment
TECHNOLOGY
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Capture Learning, Not Just Lectures

34. www.echo360.com
Teachers receive real-time
reports on student
engagement and
comprehension
Teachers create and record
study materials with embedded
polls and quizzes
Students review and respond to
prepare and provide feedback
Teachers engage with new
interactivity, can monitor and
adapt to student activity
Students ask questions, take
notes, flag issues, and respond
to in-class questions
No Clickers Required!
Students review class materials
and collaborate with peers
online to master content
AFTER CLASSBEFORE CLASS DURING CLASS
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35. Learners Questions Interface
13
Flag
as
Confused

36. Interactive Question Example
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37. Instructor Analytics
Least
engaged
students
Confusing
content
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38. Multiple Engagement Tools in a Single
Environment
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39. Make the Most of Your LMS
• Single sign-on
• Seamless
provisioning
• Automatic
enrollments
Send grades to the
LMS gradebookLTI
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40. Echo360 with Powers the Modern Classroom
Teach
as you always do
and use new data
to intervene or
adjust proactively
Engage
with instructor, peers,
content on personal
device before, during
and after class
Succeed
better engagement +
better insight =
improved outcomes
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41. Interested to learn more about Echo360?
Please Contact -
Singapore Pte. Ltd
Yazid Idris
yazididris@bee-net.com
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42. Using AWS, Open Universities Australia Develops Online Courses
That Reach Over 100,000 Students Worldwide
• Open Universities Australia (OUA) is an aggregator
of Australian universities and colleges that offers
online distance learning services
• In late 2012, OUA decided to develop a massive
open online course (MOOC) site called Open2Study
• By selecting AWS, OUA established an
infrastructure capable of supporting several
hundred thousand of global concurrent users
• OUA is also able to start developing new products
and services within a day on the AWS Cloud and
add them into production in two weeks

43. Enabling Students
Creating and driving shared curriculum and open learning

44. Using AWS in an Educational Context
Amazon Web Services Global Summit
28 April 2016, Singapore
Catriona Ward
Director, Educational Services
Brightcookie
Discover. Experience. Learn.
https://goo.gl/cyA3jp
www.brightcookie.com
enquiries@brightcookie.com.au
+61 8 8463 0555 (Australia)
+65 3159 0777 (Singapore)

45. Learning Everywhere
Image: CC by SSA Rustici Software
http://tincanapi.com/
Discover. Experience. Learn.

46. Learning in Workplaces
Discover. Experience. Learn.
Learning Innovation
70
Informal learning and
performance support
from tough jobs
Time for core business
tasks
20
Social learning (P2P,
coaching, mentoring)
from people
Time for projects
related to the core
business
10 Formal training courses and research
Time for projects
unrelated to the core
business

47. Changing Skills Base
Discover. Experience. Learn.
Source: OECD Skills
Survey

48. Discover. Experience. Learn.
Learning Activities
Formal Learning
Qualifications
Short courses
OLH courses/ Webinars
Seminars/Workshops
Informal Learning
Communities of
Practice
Learning Circles
Mentoring
Online Communities
Social Media
Learning Record Store (LRS)
Exercises/Debriefs
Day-to-day jobs
Incident attendance
Training/Simulations
Logbooks/Device data
Conferences
Learning Statements
Eg. “I got a certificate for passing my course”
Eg. “I got a Statement of Attendance for attending a short course on Project Management’”
Learning Analytics & Reporting
Collect Anything

49. Discover. Experience. Learn.
AWS (EC2)
REST API
JSON
Business Logic
SLIM Framework
NoSQL Datastore
MongoDB
Experience API LRS

50. Discover. Experience. Learn.
Student Management
System
Vettrak, JobReady,
Paradigm etc
Learning Management
System
Moodle, Totara, Canvas etc
Customer Relationship
Management (CRM)
Salesforce, MS Dynamics,
Hubspot
Financial Systems
Xero, MYOB etc
Connect Anything
SMS Connector

51. AWS (EC2)
Discover. Experience. Learn.
AWS (SQS)
Communication Engine
Business Logic
SMS Connector Middleware
NoSQL Datastore
MongoDB
AWS (SNS)
User NotificationsMessage Queue

52. Discover. Experience. Learn.
Future Directions

53. ●Established 2003
●Offices in Adelaide and Singapore
●Online educational technologies
●System integration
●Educational content & instructional
design
●Infrastructure support
●2nd tier help desk support
●Mobile learning development
About Brightcookie
Discover. Experience. Learn.

54. Democratizing Research and
Innovation

55. Accelerate Time to Science
Run Experiments, Not Servers
Fail Fast
Collaborate More

56. • The AMP Lab is a multidisciplinary
research effort at the University of
California, Berkeley aimed at building
scalable machine learning and data
analysis technology
• Needed to be able to scale compute
resources quickly to analyze algorithms
that are used in genomics work
• Researchers are able to easily scale
Amazon EC2 instances simultaneously
to process genome data faster and more
cost effectively
U.C. Berkeley Researchers Uses AWS to Look At More Accurate
Data, Faster

57. Public datasets on AWS
To enable more innovation, AWS hosts a selection of datasets that anyone
can access for free. Data in our public datasets is available for rapid
access to our flexible and low-cost computing resources.
Earth Science
Landsat on AWS
Life Sciences
1000 Genomes Project
Internet Science
Common Crawl Corpus
https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/3000-rice-genome/

58. Big Open Data Opens Doors
Landsat on AWS is making up to 1PB of Landsat imagery
available in the cloud which is lowering the cost of precision
agriculture research, climate research, and disaster response
efforts.
AWS makes genome sequence data of 3,024 rice varieties
available for researchers to identify ways to feed the world
through improved rice crop yields, climate stress tolerance,
and disease resistance.

59. Creating Cloud Competent Students | AWS Educate

60. Demand for Cloud Workforce Booming

61. Sources: The Economist and Mint Press News
We can’t fill the demand for
these jobs

62. The educational ecosystem needs us to care
Sources: The Economist and Mint Press News

63. AWS Educate Value Proposition
Labs and training on
cloud topics and AWS
products
Open course content
by leading professors
and AWS
Grants for free
usage of AWS
services
Communities that
share best practices
virtually and in person
 Positively impact
students around the
world
 Curriculum change
 Student app
development and
entrepreneurship
 Accelerate career
opportunities and
corporate hiring pipeline
JOBS

64. More than 500 institutions have joined
Launched May 2015:
 Global leaders in computer
science, entrepreneurship,
big data and business
schools
 Actively sharing curricular
assets and contributing to
the Cloud community

65. Eliminate costly technical debt and reallocate resources
so you can deliver high-value, revenue-generating projects faster.
Innovate faster and solidify your competitive advantage by
merging startup agility with enterprise experience and resources.
Reduce risk by focusing resources dedicated to security, compliance
and availability to the most important areas of your business.
"AWS is our trusted partner that is going to run our company for the next 140 years.”
Jim Fowler – CIO, General Electric
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