Cloud-Learning: A New System for Inclusive, Simplifying, Networked Learning

Introduction

C. Weiss, an expert in e-learning and distance learning platform for online training, provides a detailed description of the concept cloud, by stating what are the different cloud architectures and the related application models, referring to the multiple contexts in which cloud takes on different meanings and application levels (Weiss, 2013).

For Weiss, cloud computing is a metaphor that suggests the perspective of being able to be connected anywhere, evoking on the one hand the complex technological infrastructure and suggesting on the other as the physical location of users and resources loses relevance, creating endless connections and endless ways to interact in the network.

Cloud computing has immediately aroused the interest of the scientific community involved in research in education, which has initiated research at various levels with the aim of determining whether the cloud formula can be a stimulus to learning and if the potential of collaboration and customization inherent in that formula can foster inclusive learning, with particular reference to Special Educational Needs.