A Content Oriented Smart Education System based on Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention in the education sector as a way of delivering more economical, securable, and reliable education services. This paper proposes and introduces a cloud-based smart education system for e-learning content services with a view to delivering and sharing various enhanced forms of educational content, including text, pictures, images, videos, 3-dimensional (3D) objects, and scenes of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The proposed system consists of six main features that are required for deploying cloud-based educational content services: 1) a cloud platform that provides an infrastructure for the realization of a cloud-based educational media service environment, 2) a compatible file format that enables it to provide media content through various types of devices, 3) an authoring tool that enables teachers to create various types of media content, 4) a content viewer that displays different types of media on multiple platforms, 5) an infer-ence engine that provides students with individualized learning content, and 6) a security system that manages privileged user access and data encryption in the cloud for dependable educational content services. We believe that the proposed system should provide a new and innovative solution for cloud-based educational media services by supporting a cloud-based service environment with a totally integrated system.

Computer education and instructional technology teacher trainees opinions about cloud computing technology

“…Authors agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License environments along with the advantages of scalability, flexibility, accessibility, reliability, and high performance while reducing IT-related operating costs (Armbrust et al, 2010;Jeong et al, 2013). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) described cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction (Mell and Grance, 2011).…”

“…More recently, the concept of cloud computing evolved from delivering, sharing, accessing, and storing applications to providing access to a variety of files, such as text documents, photos, videos, and music (Jeong et al, 2013).…”

“…John McCarthy, who was the first to form the concept of artificial intelligence and wrote the Lisp programming language has been acknowledged by the IT industry because of his contribution and was awarded the Turing Award in 1971 (WikipediA, 2014). Cloud computing was first proposed by Christophe Bisciglia at Google in 2006, though more attention was paid to it after Google launched "Google Apps" in 2007, and it became more popular still after Apple launched iCloud in 2011 (Jeong et al, 2013).The Internet has been represented on network diagrams by a cloud symbol for many years. When, around 2008, a variety of new services started to emerge that permitted computing resources to be accessed over the Internet, the label 'cloud computing' started to be used as an umbrella term.…”

The Conceptual Basis of the Smart Education

“…Впервые концепция смарт-структуры упоминалась в контек-сте аэрокосмических технологий, создание которой подкреплялось тремя тенденциями: переходом на новые материалы, использованием новых свойств материалов, дости-жением в области электроники и информационных технологий [7]. Основная функция смарт-структур заключается в реагировании на ок-ружающую среду и изменения в ней прогнозируемым (определенным) образом посредством датчиков, сигналов, коммуникаций и других интегрированных в нее элемен-тов.…”

“…Примеры внедрения различных систем в об-ласти обучения, реализующих па-радигму смарт-образования, приво-дятся в работах [5]. В некоторых из этих работ, а также в статьях [7] и исследованиях [2] рассматривается ряд признаков, которые характерны для систем, соответствующих при-нципам смарт-образования.…”