Current Proceedings on Technology
Yazarlar: Logica Banica, Cristian Stefan, Doina Rosca
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Anahtar Kelimeler:E-Learning,Cloud computing,Academic collaboration
Özet: The academic world is influenced nowadays by two main opposite factors: the globalization of the economic crisis and the requirement for the universities to have a powerful IT infrastructure, able to host the educational and demanding research activities. Because many universities do not have the possibility to increase their costs for higher education in order to provide the desired infrastructure for the e-learning services, the Cloud Computing platforms could be the best solution for developing highest quality educational activities. Many higher education institutions offer LMS’ on Private Clouds, having their own infrastructure and using open-source software, such as Blackboard, Moodle or Claroline. Thus is unavoidable that, after a certain amount of time, resources don’t become obsolete or at least insufficient, that the system will be prone to security risks, and students and teachers will desire to involve in the world-wide information exchanges, meaning that a new target will arise: migration to a Community Cloud, or even better, Public Cloud infrastructure.In this paper, we will present the structure and the functionality of e-Learning Cloud concept and the possibility to move the traditional LMS to the cloud computing infrastructure. Also, we propose two options for building a Public Cloud e-Learning in academic environment, the main difference between them being the fact that one is a commercial solution based on IBM technology, and the other is a free alternative based on the Docebo Cloud platform.Migrating university LMS on Cloud nation-wide is a matter that requests government implication for allocating the funds and adapting legislation to this educational approach. Although, the economic situation in the last five years and the pressure from the academic environment to promote equality of chances for all students and increased quality for the learning process will contribute to the adoption of this approach in the future.