Instructors’ Perception on The Use of Cloud-based Learning Systems in Higher Education: The Case of Tehran Technical Universities

Technology is changing every day and it forces the whole world to change with it. Nowadays all of our life is influenced by technology and our education system is not apart from it. Most of developed countries in world moved to cloud based platform in their personal, work and educational environment. Developing countries like Iran also start to move toward this technology. Despite the fact that business and governmental organization are already adopting this technology successfully in their system, the higher education institutions are quite new in it. Few universities in Iran are changing their traditional e-learning to cloud based system, but with the increase of demand of this technology are pushing all the educational institution forward. This thesis is written to investigate the advantages of cloud based e-learning system in the educational institutions and the perception of instructors toward using this system in educational environment. Keywords: Cloud computing, E-learning, Higher education.