Google Calendar&amp;#x2122; for managing and monitoring the utilization of a web-based laboratory's resources

Mahfuri

2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

et al. 2014

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As a result of the war situation in Syria, several private universities had to completely close their campuses and move into safer places inside the capital city Damascus. This huge step made it possible to keep the educational process going on at these universities. However, in the new places even small tasks like commuting and distributing the course materials were still challenging. To address the second issue, we thought of utilizing "Cloud-Computing" technology to store these materials. Students possessing computers were able to download lectures and upload reports. However, this did not work as expected with the students wishing to use their mobile devices. For this reason, we decided to expand the system with "Mobile-Learning" technology to support a wider range of devices.

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating access to course contents during war situation with M-Learning and Cloud Computing technologies

Mahfuri

2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

et al. 2014

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“…We also adopted Application layer service model (SaaS) to serve a tool for scheduling access to laboratory resources [11]. The tool utilizes Google Calendar [12], which is an example of SaaS, to allow learners reserve a resource in an online laboratory when a free one is not currently available.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work-in-progress: Utilization of cloud technologies in an E-learning system during campus-wide failure situation

Amry

2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)

et al. 2014

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Due to the ongoing fight situation in Syria, most of the private universities around the capital Damascus had to abandon their campuses and move to safer locations inside the city. In the case of the authors the new place was not equipped with any system for enabling the delivery of course contents over the Internet. Further more, university administration did not have the will to invest in establishing an e-learning system in the new place due to the high cost and uncertainty of continuity. The only good thing was that Internet was still working in most areas. So the teaching staff thought of using the free storage service offered by a number of providers on the WEB for hosting course contents as a start. This worked well, but it did not fulfill all necessary functions. Therefore, we started working on a new system utilizing Cloud Computing for managing courses. The new system utilizes a "Platform as a Service" model offered for free on the WEB to enable distributing course materials electronically as a first step, and is intended to perform more function gradually.

“…On the web, there are many tools that offer services for managing/monitoring access to resources which makes the implementation of scheduling easier [4]. However, this choice implies less freedom in selecting the proper time for each learner to use the facility, and it does not solve the slowconnection problem learners connecting from some remote locations face.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…We serve each learner one free host for a certain period of time to work on [7]. When a free host is not available the learner will be able to reserve one for later use through a scheduling system that was implemented in the topmanagement server.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtualization and Nested Virtualization for Constructing a Reproducible Online Laboratory

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

Nagai

2012

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Web-based laboratories have become so popular in educational institutions for the great benefits these labs bring and ease of use. They have been successfully implemented in a wide range of subjects, but we still need to build training facilities for the uncovered/new branches of learning. In general, the structure of the laboratory varies depending on the subject area; however, in many cases, especially in the case of ICT subjects, it is possible to use the same configurations for more than one course-topic, Networking and Internet Security for example. This means that we only need to create a "prototype" then we can have as many labs as we wish by making "copies" of it. This is not possible with all laboratory-types, but certain technologies make it doable. In this paper, we describe how we used Virtualization Technology (normal and nested) to achieve this successfully. In our system the laboratory components are constructed using Virtual Machines, and then packaged to make one prototype from which we could create a number of labs for different ICT courses.