Towards Secure e-Learning Applications: a Multiagent Platform

Security is an important issue in the actual educational context where e-learning increases in popularity and increasingly more people are taking online courses. The e-learning platforms are today production systems that need to be secured. To achieve a good level of security, there are many important elements that must be taken into account: authentication, access control, data integrity, content protection, etc. Information security can be obtained using methods such as cryptography and network protocols. In this paper we will highlight some key security issues that must be taken into consideration in developing and using an e-learning platform. We will also examine some security aspects of one of the most popular open-source e-learning systems: Moodle.

International Journal for e-Learning Security, 2017

Prior research in the e-learning area has appeared with a focus on its adoption aspects. Limited research has been carried out solely on the interplay between e-learning and security and privacy. Considering the wide acceptance of e-learning, and a plethora of cybersecurity breach incidents, it is surprising that the two topics have not been discussed together. An effective e-learning environment depends on stakeholders who understand the importance of security and behave responsibly within it. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that looks at some of the information security and privacy factors related to e-learning.

2014

Abstract:- Over the last few years, information and communication technologies have been increasingly used in higher education. Likewise, virtual learning environments are largely replacing traditional teaching methods. Implementing complex e-learning systems requires both creating a reliable hardware infrastructure and using high-performance software platforms. This paper presents a few solutions for optimizing these two components, taking into account the changes occurring throughout the use of an e-learning platform, such as: increase in the number of users, web content, data trafficking, exceeding servers ' load degree, as well as hardware equipment. At the same time, it presents a few measures for ensuring the security of the information system within which this platform is operated.

2005

Security considerations play an increasingly important role for distributed computing. In today’s Internet age, academia requires sharing, distributing, merging, changing information, linking applications and other resources within and among universities and other related organizations. Because e-learning systems are open, distributed and interconnected, then security becomes an important challenge in order to insure that interested actors only have access to the right information at the appropriate time. The purpose of this paper is to give an in-depth understanding of most important security challenges that can be relevant for distributed e-learning systems.

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications

A learning management system is a web-based software application that is used for the documentation, administration, tracking, reporting and delivery of training programs and educational courses. It is an efficient and effective way to give valuable information to the students in a short time. With the evolution of e-learning, the learning management system is widely adopted in the education sector as well as in corporate market. Thus, it became a valued target for attackers to focus their attacks on LMS platforms. Most of the popular learning management systems available now a day don't pay enough attention to the security mechanism and that gives opportunity to intruders to gain unauthorized access by manipulating the security gaps and breach into the system. The result is information leakage, unwanted data deletion or modification and compromised integrity of the data. The aim of this research paper is to focus on the need of security concerns and to provide a solution that can make the learning management system secure from any possible potential threats and attacks. In this paper, a complete multi-layered security model is proposed. The implementation of proposed model will provide a very secure environment for any learning management system.

Conference on Frontiers in Education, 2009

This paper presents a service that provides security through the technology of Web services. The use of web services to provide security in e-learning systems will complement the features of services developed in language and/or different architectures. Thus, our work is not limited to platforms in which the client (e-learning system) was developed, since this service is provided on a

The rapid development of the Internet suggests and offers a numerous of innovative services and applications that has profoundly transformed the educational environment. Elearning infrastructure represents an attractive educational environment where the popularity growths and more and more people are taking online courses. However, e-learning infrastructure is mainly based on the use of the Internet platform which becomes the location for an advanced set of illegitimate events and actions, and the e-learning infrastructure is actually exposed to a many kinds of threats. Moreover, several e-learning platforms are implemented without considering some security concerns. In this paper, we present e-learning environment, especially characteristics, development, growth, benefits and challenges. We discussed security services and requirements that need to be implemented in the e-learning platform. We develop a new approach that combines and correlates security services and requirements for...

CSI , 2012

Now-a-days everybody wants to use computer based learning as a mode of knowledge gathering, both in formal (acquiring degrees) and informal ways, i.e. via Information and Communication Technology (ICT). One of the most effective applications of ICT is the electronics learning or e-Learning. Considering the importance and need of e-Learning, in last decades a drastic change of learning methodologies has taken place in connection to Higher Education. Regularly different important e-documents are being transferred among different users for smooth operation of e-learning system. As everything is being communicated using ICT and accessible to all, there are always different risks from attacker to alter the e-content intentionally or unintentionally. So for e-learning systems to function properly, different kind of rights control are required to protect digital-contents or e-content like class notes, lecture (Audio file .mp3/mp4,etc or video file .wma/.avi, etc) and diagrams. We will be generating a new security-model on the Right Expressions Languages (RELs) like Digital Property Rights Language (DPRL), eXtensible Rights Mark-up Language (XrML), etc. to protect e-content as well as e-Learning security. We will try stressing on Access control by implementations of e-Learning Digital Right Management (EDRM) technology at the time of e-content transactions.

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2005

Although distance education applications have been widely deployed, not many of them provide privacy and security for their users. Most of them only provide access control by requesting a user id and password. In a recent paper for AINA (Lin et al., 2004), we conveyed the importance of privacy and security for distance education and showed how they can be provided. In this paper, we present an extension of that work for the use of context-aware agents that can provide privacy and security for distance education applications in an intelligent manner based on the user's interaction context. Our agents are based on an agent framework adapted from IEEE P1484.1/D9: the Learning Technology Systems Architecture (LTSA) (IEEE, 2004).

In the Resent pass, consideration amount of work has been drive in the upliftment of E-learning infrastructure, to get security of E-learning system remain an issue that needs to be addressed cryptography can be an option for securing E-learning systems by this paper we are focusing on importance of E-learning, with the thrust being upon the security issues of E-learning system