Virtual Personalized Learning Environment (VPLE) on the Cloud

Liang, Po-Huei; Yang, Jiann-Min

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23982-3_49

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“…In Liang and Yang (2011), the authors present a new service model that enhances efficiency within a virtual personalised learning environment. This system is intended to subscribe the selected learning resources as well as to create a personalised virtual classroom, and allows the learning content providers to register their applications in the server and the learners to integrate other internet learning resources to their learning application pools.…”

Section: Private Cloud Solutions In Educationmentioning

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E-learning and educational data mining in cloud computing: an overview

Fernández

Peralta

Benítez

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IJLT

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E-learning is related to virtualised distance learning by means of electronic communication mechanisms, using its functionality as a support in the process of teaching-learning. When the learning process becomes computerised, educational data mining employs the information generated from the electronic sources to enrich the learning model for academic purposes. To provide support to e-learning systems, cloud computing is set as a natural platform, as it can be dynamically adapted by presenting a scalable system for the changing necessities of the computer resources over time. It also eases the implementation of data mining techniques to work in a distributed scenario, regarding the large databases generated from e-learning. We give an overview of the current state of the structure of cloud computing, and we provide details of the most common infrastructures that have been developed for such a system. We also present some examples of e-learning approaches for cloud computing, and finally, we discuss the suitability of this environment for educational data mining, suggesting the migration of this approach to this computational scenario.

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“…The architecture of the virtual personalised learning environment (see online version for colours) Source: Taken fromLiang and Yang (2011) …”

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E-learning and educational data mining in cloud computing: an overview

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IJLT

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“…E-Learning is an innovative approach for delivering welldesigned, learner-centered, interactive and facilitated learning environments to anyone, anyplace and anytime. Components of an e-Learning system can include content of multiple formats, management of the learning experience, and an online community of learners, content developers and experts [6]. In addition to the learning technologies, the Web-based learning offers some benefits over conventional classroom-based learning.…”

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Cloud-based framework for mobile learning content adaptation

Madjarov

2014

2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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Mobile Web browsing usually involves a lot of horizontal and vertical scrolling, which makes page consultation painful. The main challenge of mobile networking is the contextaware content adaptation. This paper discusses the problem of content adaptation for mobile devices. The adaptation considers the context of the client and the environment where the client request is received. A device independent model is developed in order to achieve automatic adaptation of the content based on its semantics and the capabilities of the target device. A serviceoriented Framework, as part of an e-Learning SaaS Cloud, is presented for adapting and displaying learning objects on small handheld devices, including a text-to-speech solution for learners in moving. Some aspects of e-Learning services integration of in Cloud computing environment are also discussed.

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“…Oberg et al [3] present a "virtual lab" system architecture for academic h igh-performance co mputing but without educational purposes. And a lot of other authors reflect about to use cloud computing as technical infrastructure for providing e-learning systems [4], [5], [6] dig ital campus systems [7] or personalized learning environ ment systems [8] but this has nothing to do with v irtual laboratories in the understanding of this contribution. Only Thié baut et al [9] show a very interesting problem based education example of processing Wikipedia du mps by applying cloud computing technologies and compare them to dedicated cluster solutions in practical college courses.…”

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Virtual Labs in Higher Education of Computer Science Why they are Valuable? How to Realize? How much will It Cost?

Kratzke

2012

EDU

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Cost efficiency is an often mentioned strength of cloud computing. In times of decreasing educational budgets virtual labs provided by cloud computing might be therefore an int eresting option for higher education organizations or IT training facilit ies. An analysed use case of a web technology lecture and a corresponding practical course of a co mputer science study programme shows that is not possible to answer the question in general whether cloud computing approaches are economical or not. The general implication of this finding for h igher education is, that the application of cloud computing can be only answered fro m a course specific point of view. This contribution shows why. But also how universities, colleges or other IT training facilit ies can make pro found and course specific decisions for or against cloud based virtual labs from an economic point of view. The presented approach is inspired by Weinmans "mathematical proof of the inevitability of cloud co mputing". The key idea is to co mpare peak to average usage of virtual labs and relate this ratio to costs of classical dedicated labs. The rat io of peak and average usage indicates whether a use case (fro m a pure economical point of view) is cloud compatible or not. This contribution derives also some findings when cloud computing in h igher education has economical advantages or disadvantages. Regarding the analysed use case it turned out that virtual labs are able to provide a more than 25 times cost advantage compared to classical dedicated approaches. Virtual labs can be applied frict ionless to classical as well as distance study programmes and virtual labs provide a convenient infrastructure for project as well as problem based learning in co mputer science. Nevertheless provider of virtual labs should always consider usage and resulting cost characteristics. This article shows how to do this.

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Virtual Personalized Learning Environment (VPLE) on the Cloud

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

E-learning and educational data mining in cloud computing: an overview

E-learning and educational data mining in cloud computing: an overview

Cloud-based framework for mobile learning content adaptation

Virtual Labs in Higher Education of Computer Science Why they are Valuable? How to Realize? How much will It Cost?

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