Cloud-based CMSs in Education

1. Abstract
During the recent years, online applications for learning and teaching play a significant
role in the field of education and e-learning has become a very popular trend of the education
technology. However, with the huge growth of the number of users, data and educational
resources generated, e-learning systems have become more and more expansive in terms of
hardware and software resources, and many educational institutions cannot afford such
investments. Due to its tremendous advantages, cloud computing technology rises swiftly as a
natural platform to provide support to e-learning systems. The aim of this paper is to give an
overview of the current state and the impact of the use of cloud computing for e-learning.

Keywords: cloud, cloud-based, education, CMS, content management system, training, learning,
teaching, school, university, application, online, online- based

Search Strings:
● Cloud education
● CMS education
● Content management system training
● CMS teaching
● Online application training
● Content management system learning
● CMS teaching online
● Cloud based application university

Research Questions:
● What is the field distribution over half of the decade?

● What is the field distribution in different domains?

1. Time - Bound Research

The results after using the search strings mentioned above for half a decade (2015 - 2020)
Search Strings IEEExplore ScienceDirect SpringerLink
Cloud education 2,372 14,080 34,560

CMS education 33 4,882 6,960

Content management 305 50,574 110,482

system training
 CMS teaching 9 1,594 2,707

Online application 1,809 64,322 114,483

training
Content management 881 478,10 121,877
system learning
CMS teaching online 1 711 1,334

Cloud based 6916 62,064 83,749

application university
Total Results 12,293 136,163 270,525

The first step in finding the relevant documents for our project is to go through all studies done
between the years 2015 - 2020. The search was made on three different websites and here is the total
number of results on which we will start to work on: IEEExplore -12,293, ScienceDirect - 136,163,
SpringerLink - 270,525.

2. Inclusion and Exclusion

2.1. Only Articles, Journals.

Search Strings IEEExplore ScienceDirect SpringerLink

Cloud education 872 12,807 12,950

CMS education 9 286 2,957

Content management 40 1,049 44,239
system training
CMS teaching 0 121 1,191
Online application 413 53,629 54,550
training
Content management 138 1,427 40,916
system learning
CMS teaching online 0 53 592
Cloud based 2,041 1,660 31,736
application university
Total Results 3,513 71,032 132,308

We started with the inclusion part, where after the first filter applied, we had a total of 203,340
results from all the websites mentioned above.

The exclusion part was made for Chapter, Conference Paper, Reference Work Entry, Protocol,
Book, Conference Proceedings, Conference info, Conference Abstracts, Encyclopedia , Book Chapter,
Case reports, Correspondence, Discussion, Editorials, Errata, Examinations, Reviews, News, Practice
guidelines, Short Communications, Software publications.
Search Strings IEEExplore ScienceDirect SpringerLink

Cloud education 1,500 1,273 21,610

CMS education 24 4,596 4,003

Content management 265 49,528 66,243
system training
CMS teaching 9 1,473 1,516

Online application 1,396 10,693 58,933

training

Content management 743 46383 80961

system learning
CMS teaching online 1 658 742

Cloud based 4,875 60,404 52,013

application university
Total Results 8,780 65,131 138,217

2.2. Only Articles, Journals with technical background

Search Strings IEEExplore ScienceDirect SpringerLink

Cloud education 525 102 2,425

CMS education 0 6 124

Content management 15 183 4,610
system training
CMS teaching 0 16 82

Online application 236 357 9,417

training
Content management 63 695 6,531
system learning
 CMS teaching online 0 10 58
Cloud based 1,212 412 8,110
application university

Total Results 2,051 1,781 31,357

After these two big criteria applied, we merged all the results in one document and we had a total
of 35,189 documents relevant for our theme of the project.

2.3. Only Articles, Journals, with technical background, in English

After we merged all the results, the next filter applied was the one based on language. We applied
a filter to get all the documents in English.
Because we had a large number of search strings and we did the research on three different
websites, we also applied a filter based on the title of the documents for deleting all the duplicates.
With these two filters applied, the number of the relevant documents was 3,663.

2.4. Only relevant documents for our project

The next action in our project was to go through all the results and only keep the relevant work
for us. We decided that the first keyword for our manual filter to be “cloud”. Based on this, the number of
results was 1,074.
The next important keyword was “education” and we also added some of the synonyms for this
one. We did the filtering for “training”, “teaching”, “learning”, “school”, “university” and we had a total
of 58 results relevant for our work.

3. Mapping

Year distribution
2020 2015
16% 10%
2016
14%

2019
28% 2017
16%

2018
16%
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Education Science Industry Medicine Other
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Domain distribution
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Cloud keyword

0% 1%

IEEEXplore
ScienceDirect
SpringerLink1063

99%
Education keyword

2%
IEEEXplore
SpringerLink
ScienceDirect

98%