Technology has been revolutionized in the past few decades and its impacts on student learning have not been fully explored. The digital divide between a student's personal technology usage and its use within the classroom remains to be bridged. This study focuses on using technology‐based innovative teaching methods with engineering classes and understanding their impact on students. The findings suggest that these learners benefited from and prefer to use innovative teaching methods backed by technology support in class. Students deprived of such innovative methods and technology would prefer to have them introduced to aid their learning experience. The study strengthens the need for decision makers in educational institutions to invest in innovative teaching methods supported by technology in order to provide a better learning platform for students, particularly in India, where engineering graduates are regarded as lacking essential skills in communication and innovation.

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Cloud architectures are becoming an active area of research. The quality and durability of a software system are defined by its architecture. The architecture approaches that are used to build cloud-based systems are not available in a blended fashion to achieve an effective universal architecture solution. The paper aims to contribute to the systematic literature review (SLR) to assist researchers who are striving to contribute in this area. The main objective of this review is to systematically identify and analyse the recently published research topics related to software architecture for cloud with regard to research activity, used tools and techniques, proposed approaches, domains. The applied method is SLR based on four selected electronic databases proposed by (Kitchenham and Charters, 2007). Out of 400 classified publications, we regard 121 as relevant for our research domain. We outline taxonomy of their topics and domains, provide lists of used methods and proposed approaches. At present, there is little research coverage on software architectures for cloud, while other disciplines have become more active. The future work is to develop a secure architecture to achieve quality of service and service level agreements.