A Teacher Friendly Environment to Foster Learner-Centered Customization in the Development of Interactive Educational Packages

A service computing model based on interaction among local Campus Clouds

“…Cloud Computing [9], a large-scale distributed computing that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, data, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet. Advanced clouds typically include other computing resources such as storage area networks (SANs), network equipment, firewall and other security devices [10].…”

E-learning support service based on interaction among local campus clouds

“…Grids enable resource sharing and aggregation of millions of computational resources over geographically distributed organizations and administrative domains in a secure manner [13]. E-learning, which emphasizes that technology in education should be complemented with appropriate pedagogical methods, forms and principles, and particularly with those that encourage active and lifelong learning, could provide a ubiquitous learning environment for learner with modern resource sharing technologies such as P2P, Grid, Cloud and Web Service [10]. To manage all resources in universities to achieve E-education, existing solutions such as grid resource management could serve the requirements of a large number of users and the execution of numerous scientific applications at the same time, however, grid still couldn't avoid the occurrence of bottleneck, it couldn't scale adaptively according the scale of service.…”

“…Therefore, whether businesses or individuals, they can achieve on-demand in the clouds with network-base access [7]. In the end, computing Clouds render users with services to access hardware, software and data resources, thereafter an integrated computing platform as a service, in a transparent way [10], namely, HaaS: Hardware as a Service, SaaS: Software as a Service and DaaS: Data as a Service.…”

Answering the Question: Student Perceptions of Personalized Education and the Construct's Relationship to Learning Outcomes

“…Interestingly, the most solid empirical/social scientific work on personalized education is focused on the learning medium that most consider to be the least personal*distance and online education (Apple, 2006;Del Corso et al, 2005). Keefe and Jenkins (2000) suggest several general elements of personalized education: (1) an evolving, deepening relationship between teacher and student;…”

“…Engineers and technology researchers have developed sophisticated electronic course customization platforms that identify and provide relevant learning objectives based on individual learning needs and styles (Apple, 2006;Del Corso et al, 2005). These provide frameworks for online undergraduate and graduate learning, as well as continuing education and corporate training, yet the traditional academy has been ''slow to adopt formal learning management systems'' (Townley, 2003, p. 8) similar to those efficiently used in for-profit enterprises.…”