Towards an efficient e-learning system based on cloud computing

• Authors: E. Aljenaa;F. S. Al-Anzi;M. Alshayeji
• Venue: Proceedings of the Second Kuwait Conference on e-Services and e-Systems
• Year: 2011

The rapid development in Information and Communication Technology has had a significant impact on traditional educational systems and learning. Today, E-Learning has become a widely accepted way of learning. With increasing numbers of users, a wide range of learning services and the growth of educational content, E-Learning has emerged as the mode for future learning. However, the volatile user load and massive storage and transfer of rich multimedia content have lead to a need for effective utilization of server side system resources in providing E-Learning services. Cloud computing offers a dynamic provision of virtualized resources, elasticity, scalability, pays as you use and measured service with the ability to dynamically provision and de-provision computing resources as needed. Cloud computing is ideally suited for E-learning systems. In this paper, an E-Learning framework based on cloud computing is presented which efficiently addresses the current challenges in E-Learning. Specifically, the architecture and core components in an efficient E-Learning system are introduced for efficient deployment in the cloud. Moreover, the proposed new framework efficiently blends different components that serve for E-Learning systems as a general architecture and wraps it under ---E-Learning as services|| (EaaS). Our case study-based evaluation suggests that the proposed framework of E-Learning using cloud computing is best suited for the Kuwait Ministry of Education. In addition to better performance and availability, the proposed framework delivers reliable and scalable services for E- Learning systems.