Information Security of Distance Learning

Abstract

the beginning of the 21st Century, an educated person may feel protected only when his or her social status and rights are guaranteed. A person knowing his rights and standing up for them is able to react flexibly to changes in life. In this context, distance learning may be used for continuous education, thus contributing to the personal security. It allows to organize continuous education for almost all social groups. The development of world-wide cooperation makes distance learning independent from users' location. Related projects not only equip one with new knowledge but also open new horizons in self-education and make a participant understand the need for continuous learning. Besides, distance learning provides an opportunity to use different information sources. The current state of information technologies and their development allows us to consider international educational projects that will be able to establish a direct connection between a tutor and a learner and, thus, implement a genuine feature of traditional full-time tuition. Moreover, through international projects one may discuss different concepts; this is especially important for topics such as international security problems, combating terrorism, and building community to develop common strategies.At present, distance courses on these problems are widely worked out by leading military educational institutions. The weak point of such courses is that they are created independently and without connection to each other. To solve the problem of international security, it is necessary to set some collaboration not only in the military sphere, but also in education and culture. It is important to provide examples of collaboration at the early stages of new knowledge acquisition.1 One should take into account the fact that present-day students tomorrow will protect our society from terrorism. So, collaborative efforts in establishing international programs and courses are the first steps towards the international collaboration and creation of institutions working at security problems and combating terrorism. However, first of all it is

Information Security Perspective of a Learning Management System

“…In an e-learning environment, information security risk is likely to arise from the situations outlined below (Kritzinger & Solms, 2006) (Arkhipov & Ovodkov, 2004) Information security collaboration between education providers (Eibl et al, 2006) Information security rating of e-learning system (Chang & Uden, 2008) Information security governance (Doherty et al, 2009) Information security policy in higher education institution (El-Khatib et al, 2003) Security and privacy issues in e-learning (Kritzinger & Solms, 2006) Countermeasures and information security pillars in -learning environment (Tsiantis et al, 2007) Feedback and control rights of online learning participants Within an information security framework, there are several important services or pillars. The three most important pillars are confidentiality, integrity and availability Stamp (2006) often referred to as "CIA".…”

“…From a similar perspective, Chang and Uden (2008) examined the e-learning governance practices and identified an e-learning ecosystem governance framework of structures, processes, communications and relational mechanisms, and pedagogies and instructional. Meanwhile, Arkhipov and Ovodkov (2004) suggested that collaboration between e-learning education providers could enhance information security. According to El-Khatib et al (2003) e-learning system must consider the privacy and security needs of the e-learning participants.…”