Smart Learning Services Based on Smart Cloud Computing

Abstract

Context-aware technologies can make e-learning services smarter and more efficient since context-aware services are based on the user’s behavior. To add those technologies into existing e-learning services, a service architecture model is needed to transform the existing e-learning environment, which is situation-aware, into the environment that understands context as well. The context-awareness in e-learning may include the awareness of user profile and terminal context. In this paper, we propose a new notion of service that provides context-awareness to smart learning content in a cloud computing environment. We suggest the elastic four smarts (E4S)—smart pull, smart prospect, smart content, and smart push—concept to the cloud services so smart learning services are possible. The E4S focuses on meeting the users’ needs by collecting and analyzing users’ behavior, prospecting future services, building corresponding contents, and delivering the contents through cloud computing environment. Users’ behavior can be collected through mobile devices such as smart phones that have built-in sensors. As results, the proposed smart e-learning model in cloud computing environment provides personalized and customized learning services to its users.

The Research Trends and the Effectiveness of Smart Learning

“…Smart learning (s-learning) means a new learning paradigm which serves learners to have the efficient learning environment that offers personalized mobile contents and easy adaption to current education model. And it also allows learners to have a convenient communication environment and rich resources [1,2].…”

Proposta de Uma Linha de Produtos de Software para Sistemas de Aprendizagem Ubíquos com Internet das Coisas

“…Apesar de ser possível encontrar alguns estudos que apliquem técnicas de reúso [Badr and Maamar 2009, Kim et al 2011, Villanueva et al 2015, os sistemas propostos anteriormente não são considerados, e, portanto, não há reúso nas soluções propostas.…”

Coping with the challenges of open online education in Chinese societies in the mobile era: NTHU OCW as a case study

“…Cloud computing is defined as a technology using the Internet as a medium, which is the concept that has evolved to distributed computing, grid computing, or classical high performance computing (Vaquero, Lindner, Rodero-Merino, & Caceres, 2009;Yoon & Kim, 2010). Cloud computing provides the foundation for the integration of platform and technology which can be used as a huge workspace, repository, platform, and infrastructure (Kim, Song, & Yoon, 2011). The cloud services invocation from the handset enables mobile applications that are not limited by storage space and processing power (Paniagua, Srirama, & Flores, 2011).…”