The education cloud contains all the hardware computing resources necessary for educational informatization. After virtualization, these resources provide a good platform for educational institutions, educators and students. The role of this platform is to provide cloud services for the education field.

The education cloud includes cloud computing assisted instruction (CCAI) and cloud computing-based education (CCBE).

Cloud computing aided instruction (CCAI) refers to the educational "cloud service" supported by "cloud computing" for schools and teachers to build an information environment for personalized teaching, support teachers' effective teaching and students' active learning, promote the development of students' advanced thinking ability and group wisdom, and improve the quality of education. That is to make full use of cloud services brought by cloud computing to provide convenient conditions for our teaching, such as resource sharing and unlimited storage space.