Digital Education

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid development of technologies have forced restructuring education at all levels. This change from traditional to digital learning demanded that teachers and students possess higher digital literacy. Moreover, it required them to be aware of the importance of security and its countermeasures to protect e-learning systems. The aim of this paper was twofold. First, it focused on security issues when using Moodle, Zoom. Blackboard, and edX. Furthermore, it offers best practices to address security threats and cyber-attacks from the outside network to e-learning systems. From this study, a cryptography mechanism arises as the best technique to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and authentication (CIA) of data on the e-platforms. However, it is not strong enough to mitigate cybersecurity attacks in e-learning systems. For that reason, it is suggested that the cryptography mechanism needs to be combined with other techniques such as biometric authentication, firewalls, IDS, digital watermarking, and security process models.

The Effect of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence on the Development of Engagement Skills in Learning and DigitalTrust among University Students

“…EdX and Blackboard platforms also provided safe handling without fear on mobile phones, as well as through them, the learner can share files safely without fear. (Salvador et al, 2021) Also looked into security measures and issues when using Blackboard and edX. All of this led to the equal role of edX and Blackboard platforms in developing digital trust skills among students of the College of Education, King Khalid University.…”

The Effectiveness and Privacy Preservation of IoT on Ubiquitous Learning: Modern Learning Paradigm to Enhance Higher Education

“…Lastly, there is a risk of social engineering attacks, where cybercriminals attempt to trick learners into divulging sensitive information through phishing scams or other tactics. To prevent these attacks, learners should be educated on how to identify and avoid suspicious emails or messages, and organizations should implement policies and procedures to detect and respond to such incidents [20,58].…”

Information Security on Learning Management System Platform from the Perspective of the User during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…However, elearning during the pandemic faces various challenges and risks that must be overcome [13][14][15]. Most of the risks that have been identified are related to information security issues, such as Internet traffic, which is specific to COVID-19/data availability, lack of data processing, illegitimate use, data integrity disruption, and privacy violation [11,16,17]. Accordingly, several approaches have been proposed to address the information security issues of e-learning systems during the pandemic era, such as the framework of intrusion detection [18], online learning quality assessment [12], and cryptography [17].…”

“…The framework covers the establishment of a Quality Control unit, preparation of the readiness of instructors and students, and settlement of quality assessment methods and materials. At the technical level, a cryptography mechanism to protect the CIA of an e-learning system environment was also proposed by [17]. However, cryptography alone is insufficient for this purpose.…”