E-Learning Improved Architecture for Clouds

2018 1st International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security (ICCAIS), 2018

Today and during the recent years, Cloud computing is growing rapidly, with applications in almost any area, including education. Internet now a days is accessible from maximum telecommunication devices like desktops, laptops, tablets, mobiles, Music players, I-Pad, I-Pods etc making it more distributed compare to any centralized entity. E learning systems usually require many hardware and software resources and the cloud computing offer all facilities that the E_learning needs and it an ideal technology to use in the learning Cloud computing has helped the facades of Elearning functions particularly in achieving flexibility, efficiency and costly like never before. the cloud computing is the good choice for Elearning to provide the facilities and services of the learning.

Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences , 2018

Cloud computing is the latest and rapidly growing technology that has brought new changes and opportunities in the field of education and IT industries. Consequently, e-learning emphasizes more on technology to transform and provide training and education to learners. E-learning system using cloud computing platform introduces efficient and effective learning mechanism. In this paper, we briefly discuss the effectiveness of cloud-based e-learning along with its issues, challenges, and benefits. The analysis suggests that the cloud computing platform for e-learning is quite feasible and effective that brings greater clarity landscape anent to cloud computing assistances. Study of several cloud-based e-learning tools has been done on the basis of scalability, types of services, shareable content object reference model (SCORM), prices, usability, etc. Some e-learning trends of 2017 have been presented in last.

The increasing research in the areas of information technology have a positive impact in the world of education. The implementation of e-learning is one of contribution from information technology to the world of education. The implementation of e-learning has been implemented by several educational institutions in Indonesia. E-Learning provides many benefits such as flexibility, diversity, measurement, and so on. The current e-learning applications required large investments in infrastructure systems regardless of commercial or open source e-learning application. If the institution tended to use open source e-learning application it would need more cost to hire professional staff to maintain and upgrade the e-learning application. It can be challenging to implement e-learning in educational institutions. Another problem that can arise in the use of e-learning trend today is more likely to institution building their own e-learning system itself. If two or more institutions are willing to build and use an e-learning so they can minimise the expenditure to develop the system and share learning materials more likely happened. This paper dis- cuss the current state and challenges in e-learning and then explained the basic concept and previous proposed architectures of cloud computing. In this paper authors also proposed a model of cloud-based e-learning that consists of five layer, namely : (1) infrastructure layer; (2) platform layer; (3) application layer; (4) access layer; and (5) user layer. In addition to this paper we also illustrated the shift paradigm from conventional e-learning to cloud-based e- learning and described the expected benefits by using cloud-based e-learning.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology, 2020

E-Learning is an efficiently growing tool used for learning. Although with great power comes greater responsibilities because storing the amount of data of a particular subject will require tons and tons of storage. Even if one manages to store the data of few subjects, it would be difficult to carry it to every student. Also, E-Learning is becoming vast each coming day which includes data of many books, blogs, notes, surveys both in video as well as audio format. Storing all this huge informative data is no doubt an extremely tedious task. Moreover, portability of such huge data structure can be exceedingly dicey. To overcome this complication Cloud Computing can majorly help. Cloud helps one keep less focus on the storage and the cynosure will be the content. The reason for this research is to exaggerate the practise of cloud computing with respect to E-Learning with different aspects. In addition to E-Learning there are various vendors who provide their clouds as a service to store, retrieve and implement the particulars whenever and wherever needed. In this paper we will bring forward various clouds used for E-Learning and also their measure of effectiveness. Different Clouds are bound to have different boundaries and limitations like public or private. This will prove as a note to improve various limitations including different clouds. We will be putting light on Virtual Labs, AWS Cloud, Moodle, hypervisors and many more. This paper will be an exploration on Virtual Labs and how interestingly important it is for E-Learning with different aspects like expansion of cloud dynamically, shrinking if not in use, parallel execution, multiple users accessing same cloud.

International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology, 2013

E-learning is the new means which has the potential to support the traditional education system. Now-adays e-learning is very popular and ought to be adopted by every institution. Due to the recent developments in ICT, every organization has the opportunity to improve the quality and efficiency of learning. In this paper we propose an architecture through which we can take the advantage of internet-based learning and provide the online learning aids in the form of audio, video, animation, and simulation applications. This paper describes the importance of internetbased learning via cloud computing.

Computer networks have brought opportunities for educational development and social progress. Cloud computing introduces efficient scale mechanism, lets the construction of e-learning system to the suppliers and provide a new mode for e-learning. An enhanced integration between cloud environment and e-learning is the need of hour for upcoming e-learning tools that are considered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the current state of the Cloud Computing and its impact on e-learning and to compare the various cloud based e-learning architectures. At first the paper introduces concepts of e-learning and cloud computing infrastructure. The paper then describes the cloud services and deployment models. Finally, the paper presents an in-depth comparison of cloud based e-learning architecture.

International Journal of Computer Applications

The education system is about marking and grading system. It is important for students to have practical knowledge, profound thinking, and gain experience and insights different from the traditional or offline education system. As there are pros to offline education, there are cons as well. The offline education system provides a face to face interaction and a better understanding of the world. But apart from the traditional education system, education online is gaining more popularity and attention by many institutions and developers are working better to provide education online at ease. Applications like Byju use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a cloud computing platform for learning purpose. Online education makes learning process better and conducting practical experience by creating virtual labs for students by scaling up the resources makes it easy for students to have their own hands-on experience using the cloud. Using cloud education saves IT infrastructure cost, and can have ondemand access to the resources needed or required for learning purpose. This paper discusses the cloud architecture implemented by universities using a cloud computing platform for students to have hands-on experience and access to the virtual lab resources that universities fail to provide because of the cost factor. The paper focuses on the private cloud and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

2012

The nature of the Internet was constantly changing from a place used to read web pages to an environment that allows end-users to run software applications. The need for education is increasing constantly and the development and the improvement of the e-learning solutions is necessary. Also, the e-learning systems need to keep the pace with the technology, so the new direction is to use cloud computing. Cloud computing is highly scalable and creates virtualized resources that can be made available to users. Cloud computing will have a significant impact on the educational environment in the future. Cloud computing is an excellent alternative for educational institutions which are especially under budget shortage in order to operate their information systems effectively without spending any more capital for the computers and network devices. Academic institutions take advantage of available cloud-based applications offered by service providers and enable their own students to perform...

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2015

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) becomes an important issue especially over the Cloud Computing and online services that based on the 'pay-as-you-use' fashion. Establishing the Service level agreements (SLAs), which can be defined as a negotiation between the service provider and the user, is needed for many types of current applications as the E-Learning systems. The work in this paper presents an idea of optimizing the SLA parameters to serve any E-Learning system over the Cloud Computing platform, with defining the negotiation process, the suitable frame work, and the sequence diagram to accommodate the E-Learning systems.

Education and Information Technologies, 2017

During the recent years, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a significant role in the field of education and e-learning has become a very popular trend of the education technology. However, with the huge growth of the number of users, data and educational resources generated, e-learning systems have become more and more expansive in terms of hardware and software resources, and many educational institutions cannot afford such ICT investments. Due to its tremendous advantages, cloud computing technology rises swiftly as a natural platform to provide support to e-learning systems. This paper focuses on the research on the application of cloud computing in e-learning. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the current state and the impact of the use of cloud computing for elearning. Thus, at first the paper introduces concepts of e-learning and cloud computing infrastructure with their key characteristics. The paper analyzes also challenges facing e-learning systems deployment. In follow the paper considers cloud-based e-learning solutions by focusing on the raisons of the convenience of cloud computing for elearning. Therefore cloud computing benefits are introduced as a solution for these challenges. Finally, the paper presents some solutions of cloud computing in e-learning and describes the most common architecture adopted. Issues in implementing cloudbased e-learning systems and some potential ways to overcome them are also discussed.