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Today, there is a growing trend regarding the use of e-learning approach in higher education. However, e-learning systems require huge investments in infrastructure and hardware and software resources of which many academics institutions cannot afford. The coming of cloud computing has brought new development ideas to overcome this problem and can be adopted to cut-down such investments. The purpose of this study is to put forward an overview on what is the current state of the application of cloud computing in e-learning in higher education context, where the use of computers is increasingly intensive. The paper introduces e-learning and cloud computing concepts, by analyzing e-learning systems challenges and trends, the convenience of cloud computing for e-learning and the key benefits of e-learning on the cloud. The study shows that cloud computing has tremendous effects on e-learning …