Research indicates that the end-user adoption rate of cloud computing (CC) resources in educational settings is lower than that of other industries in the United States. The qualitative case study investigated the factors affecting the laggard end-user adoption rates of CC resources at a community college using Rogers's diffusion of…

The use of the Internet has resulted in the birth of an innovative virtualization technology called cloud computing. Virtualization can tremendously improve the instructional and operational systems of a community college. Although the incidental adoption of the cloud solutions in the community colleges of higher education has been increased,…