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Course Number: INST 347
Term: Spring or Fall 2023
Credits: 3
Course Format: Online; blended
Faculty: TBDDennis Frezzo and Donal Heidenblad
Pronouns: TBD
Contact Information: TBD
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Class time and location: Section 0101. No class-wide synchronous meeting times, but weekly assignments are due (course is not self-paced). You will be a member of assigned study and project groups that sometimes meets online at mutually convenient times, including with the Professorprofessor.
Required Textbook(s)/Resources/Equipment:
Course Website: http://elms.umd.edu
eBooks available through the library, links within ELMS, so book purchase NOT required; paperbacks are available on Amazon:
Comer 2021: The Cloud Computing Book (free on reserve already)
Hoff 2017: Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10 (not yet available as ebook)
Vergadia 2022: Visualizing Google Cloud 101
Other eBooks as needs and opportunities arise
Laptop (or desktop) computer onto which you can install software, and with an Internet Connection to ELMS and other services for labs and activities:
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Free software as needs and opportunities arise
Smartphone, especially for audio and video recording to help with qualitative user research and to try small usability experiments
Office supplies for low-fidelity prototyping (to be specified)
Course Schedule and Documents: The course schedule, reading plan, assignment instructions and rubrics, research resources, and other helpful documents will be available in ELMS.
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Student Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this course you will be able to:
Articulate and apply the major benefits of cloud computing
Build simple models of physical and virtual cloud computing infrastructure
Differentiate amongst compute, storage, and network functions in the cloud
Analyze major cloud service provider’s services
Design and critically evaluate existing designs for cloud computing users from diverse backgrounds with varying needs, applying anti-racist perspectives to ensure usability needs are met
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Online Discussions: to help you build relationships with other students despite the online nature of the course and to help you join the design community by using terminology and concepts.
Quizzes: to help provide practice with feedback along the way.
Homework Activities: to help you work through recorded lectures, home lab activities, web links, and online textbook reading, weekly.
Project Assignments: we will learn and use a cloud computing resources, online labs. One extra credit opportunity after Spring Break will be made available as part of the final project.
Midterm and Final: Take-home individual events to help gauge your progress.
More Details in ELMS
Approximate Weekly Schedule
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