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 International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-8 Issue-6, August 2019

Architecture of Modern E-learning Education

System using Cloud Computing
Rinkey, Piyush Gupta, Archana Bhatnagar

 world. To move our education system from old format to new

Abstract: Education system of India is influenced by the format needs a powerful technology which can cover all
development of computing. In today’s fast era education pattern, futuristic demand of application based education system.
learning style is completely changed due to changes in the To adopt a new technology to gain benefits in education
technology. Today we are focusing on paper less education system
which is fast, effective and less time consuming. In this era the system, to understand the benefits and limitation of this
focus is goes more on concepts not only on concepts. Cloud technology it is very crucial, so we implement it in an ideal
computing technology has completely changed the world over the way. It also includes the potential aspects of cloud computing
last decade. Not only have more In this paper we discuss the and overcome the limitation of this technology to make a
changes due to cloud infrastructure and consider the use of data better use in education system. E-learning is a revolutionary
decentralization to provide better, fast and effective content
management system for e-learning. New architecture for
change in the education system paradigm to move the focus
education system easily connecting people and devices with on virtualization classroom which is not having limitation of
learning management system. The purpose of paper is to give a distance. E-learning platform is based on the various
cloud based e-learning environment for the new generation. This functionalities such as LMS, e-mail, CMS, web-pages, and
paper also discusses the architecture of the cloud based system, discussion forums etc. [2][3][4].
advantages of cloud based system and future aspects of new
Cloud Computing environment provide infrastructure,
system. Provide cloud based e-learning system to reduce the cost,
can be more effective, easier to update and modify and provide software and services as a bristlebear to e-Learning systems.
security to the end user by stopping unauthorized user access. Cloud computing also give help in the field of data mining
Architecture of cloud based e-learning system needs fast and techniques to search and provide valuable contents on CMS
reliable internet [Link] the help of cloud based learning and LMS using Knowledge Management System. It provide
users can easily access the information very fast and by the ease scalable and dynamically support for changing necessities
mode. By this proposed architecture various services are provided
to user and on demand. As cloud is a very booming technology so
along time.
by moving traditional web based learning on cloud environment, This article give a brief discussion about the existing
it becomes a great combination. learning methods, comparative analysis of previously existing
Keywords : ICT, QA, QC. techniques to enhance e-learning. After that we will included
about cloud computing revolution as a spine for service and
I. INTRODUCTION infrastructure, along with its essential features to support
The field of ICT is completely changed due to Cloud e-Learning. Finally we will propose architecture for
[Link] provided by the cloud have a drastic and e-Learning and discuss about the challenges of this technique.
rapidly changes due to the growth in computing technology ⦁ LEARNING
and cloud computing technology. These changes in cloud Learning is a process of changing thoughts of mind by
technology are adopted by industry and education using our senses which can be visualization, listening doing
[Link] a day’s education system is drastically changes experiments etc. Learning will design the behavior of a
and the learning pattern, learning style is changed with the human, so in sort we can say learning will design human
help of technology [1]. Vision of education is changed with mind[3]. Learning is continues ongoing process. Thinking
the help of cloud computing technology. about Learning only focuses on our formal education, which
Before the one decade the teaching was only inside the is started from out childhood to our adulthood.
classroom but with the help of latest technology is Field of learning if based on many theories from last 70
increasingly spread it's wings both inside and outside the years[1]. These theories will focus on the learning mechanism
classroom. In make our education system as outcome based so we will empower our decision making power. In this time
education system the latest new trends and technologies the learning was based on the saying “Seeing is
provide a direction. Now the education system is moving from believing”[3][5]. From last 20 years the learning techniques
contents to concepts. It is not limited to a classroom, now it is are completely changed and it focus on the application based
spread from all around the world. Now people can at a corner learning. Pattern so the understanding of the subject will
of the world and get educated from another corner or the create application based learning scenarios. All the theories
for learning can be categorized into five main types: humanist,
behaviorist, cognitive, social learning, and critical reflection.
Revised Manuscript Received on August 25, 2019. Each type is having its bright side and dark side [6].
* Correspondence Author
Rinkey*, 1Research Scholar,BIT,Jaipur
[Link] Gupta, Assistant Professor,BIT,Jaipur
[Link] Bhatnagar, Assistant Professor,BIT,Jaipur

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II. LEARNING TO E-LEARNING Striking features of Cloud such as pay-by-use, on-demand,

self-service. makes it for valuable for the industry. Cloud
After the independence of our county, education was the
computing establish a new trend by providing these facilities
prime area to make a change for government. “Education
with a on-demand, fast and effective manner. For a new
develops a nation” was the key factor behind the growth of
company infrastructure, computing power and storage power
education field. During 1950 to 1975 the education was
are the most important features now a days, cloud computing
limited with reading and writing. During 1975-1980 the
become a bridge between the services and service
experimental based education system attracts the attention of
providers[9]. Organization are providing flexible
learning technologist [1][4]. After the development of
environment due to thecloud computing services. Computing
electronics and internet the education line have a revolution in
equipment requirement with a guarantee of computing speed
learning style. After the revolution in internet technology the
is fulfilled on demand services.
learning was moved in the direction of electronic learning
Virtualization be a most striking feature of cloud
(e-Learning)[8]. At the time of 1980 the e-Learning
computing. Virtualization provide IT firms to expand and
technology became popular in the world. During that time
shrink their computation capacity and storage requirement
distance learning became popular because it’s beneficiary
without any physical expansion at their site. The cost of
needs flexibility in time and place. e-Learning evolution make
overall requirement is very less as compared to fulfill the
its beneficiaries a flexibility to learn anywhere[8]. Prime
actual requirement by adding at their location.
focus of e-Learning was “Take your class anywhere you
Cloud Computing provides the following benefits such as
go”[5][4][7]. Computer based training system was coming in
Efficiency, cost saving, Remote Accessing, Flexibility, Future
the picture. Due to the revolutionary changes in the internet
Proofing, Resilience without Redundancy [10].
availability and speed, the present era learning.
In the era of Digital India, our education system[4]
becomes more approachable and effective. E-Learning makes
education system more impactful and due to the revolution in
communication industry now there are no geographical
constraints for learner. Virtual classroom[8], distance
education[5], discussion forums, content management
system, learning management system change the meaning of
class room teaching. Education data is transferred from one
system to another system and Computer Based Training
(CBT)[7] became more popular. Communication industry
makes the availability of the contest all over the world. Now a
day’s education is not limited with only text, it includes
graphics, audio, video, forums, chat rooms in the learning
module. Now e-Classroom is the future of education.

III. CLOUD TECHNOLOGY

For information technology, Cloud computing is a Figure 1: Architecture of Cloud Computing
revolutionary change in last decade. Cloud computing is the In general there are three basic design of cloud computing
fulfill the requirement of the industry[2]:
most acceptable and appreciable sub filed of information
 Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS)
technology for business enterprises, entertainment world,
 Platform as a Services (PaaS)
publication industry and education industry. Online shopping
 Software as a Services (SaaS)
industry, mail services and approximately all the big
industries are adopting or ready to adopt cloud technology for
their business expansion. In the present era the number of
users for internet as well as the speed for internet goes up
exponentially [7][8]. Requirement of increasing demand of
information technology need high processing speed, huge
data storage to fulfill the requirement of service providers.
Cloud computing full fills these requirements with a very low
cost.
Cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources (e.g. servers, storage,
networks, applications and services) that can be rapidly
provisioned and released with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction.” Figure 2: Basic Model of
The National Institute of Standards andTechnology (NIST) Cloud
defines.

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Cloud Computing services available with the four models of

deployment:

⦁ Hybrid Cloud
⦁ Private Cloud
⦁ Community Cloud
⦁ Public Cloud
For cloud setup of an organization we are creating
virtualization. In computing cloud service provider create
virtual availability to the customer for the hardware,
platform, network resources and software [11][5].To
provide all the resources available at client site virtually is Figure 4: Basic Cloud Architecture for E-Learning
called virtualization.
This technology makes the availability of E-Learning to the
every corner of the world. Cloud computing having
characteristics such as:reliability, scalability availability,
agility and elasticity makes cloud demand as a backbone for
E-Learning platform.
As we know “Every coin is having two sides”, cloud
computing is also having some dark side of this technology
such as: requirement of internet connection, speed of internet
connection, accessibility aspects and issue of data security
[10].

V. RELATED WORK
In this field the researchers provide different architecture to
provide fast and effective services of E-Learning using cloud
Figure 3: Cloud Model
computing architecture. Brief discussion about the existing
model is present here with their advantages and limitations.
IV. E-LEARNING WITH CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
Cloud computing does not provide any physical machine
Cloud Computing is an emerging technology to provide rather than it provide computing speed with the concept of
services for enhancing computing power, storage capacity, virtualization. Blue Sky framework focused on delivering
network and software services. It provides these services by Infrastructure as Services (IaaS)[2][6] and come with a
virtualization technique, where physical resources are not physical architecture layer having physical resources,
provided to customer but the services for those resources are monitoring, user interface and provisioning in its architecture.
provided virtually in a non-interruptive manner. User does This architecture was powerful that time but the security
not aware about the resource location which are used by user aspect was not covered with that architecture. User of that
with the help of cloud computing. A user or users will get the architecture was providing security with that architecture.
services for a server and communicate with the server at the Web 2.0 is needed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization
time of accessing the computing requirement. Server (NATO) for military work. Snow Leopard Cloud was
location is not visible to user but guaranteed services designed for this purpose which provides Platform as a,
provided to the user. If there is a problem in the hardware the Services (PaaS)[2]. On web 2.0 remote accessing, remote
services and data will be auto shifted to another server. management, video teleconferencing, Voice over IP (VOIP)
This technology makes E-Learning availability [2] to all services was provided by this architecture [14][3]. As this
kind of movable smart devices i.e mobiles, tablets, laptop, architecture was designed for the military services so the
tablets and PDA [12]. In the present era many companies are security was the prime feature for that architecture. User data
working as a service provider for the cloud computing to as well as the network interface was secure in this architecture
technical work such as development, startups, and technical by using effective encryption techniques.
training providers with a low cost.
Due to the development in the Information Technology and VI. PROPOSED WORK
to enhance the learning environment for the new In this we including 5 sub layers i.e. our proposed E-
technologies and enhancing the learning style more realistic Learning cloud architecture can be divided into 5 sub layers
and practical we need a change in learning strategies from
names as: Infrastructure layer, software resource layer,
learning to E-Learning [13].
Resource management layer, service layer and application
layer. Working of the layers is defined as:
⦁ Infrastructure layer: This layer contains information
about all the infrastructure, physical resources, computing
devices, storage devices, management information system,
teaching resources, hardware,
and required software. This
model contains all the required

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things which we need in traditional classroom teaching using our services such as end user student, facilitator faculty
multimedia resources. In our model this layer is the lowest members, and our prime users. This layer will access the
layer or like a physical layer of TCP/IP model. All the basic different accessibility at the end user site depends on the
physical work like power consumption, physical memory, subscription type or user type. Our E-Learning module will
permanent memory, CPU, virtualization technology, are also be available on trial basis so this layer will take care
divided into multiple domain at this layer. This layer is about the access right of the end user and provide services
dynamic as well as scalable, so to add a new resource at this according to their credentials.
layer is easier when the requirement for the processing speed, ⦁ AUTOMATED AURTHORING TOOL FOR
physical memory and permanent storage will be increased. CONTANT MANAGEMENT
⦁ Software resource layer: This layer contains required Automated authoring tool is used to design the content in
operating system and middleware component needed for the similar format, so in every lesson, course and module, LMS
E-Learning platform. Middleware technology helps to contents look and feel will be similar. By using this tool we
integrate various software resources to get a better interface can design our fresh contents and update existing contents. In
for the software development. Required software resources our LMS we are having documents, presentations, sheets and
are available through cloud by embed these software videos. For documents, presentation and sheet, we use prefix
resources at this layer. templates in our proposed LMS architecture. In our proposed
system we use articulate 360 for contents design and
updating.

VII. ARTICULATE 360

Articulate 360 is providing all the features we need for course
content development. Several useful award winning authoring
tools such as new responsive-authoring app, screen casting
apps, an ever-growing library of course assets, an online tool
for review and collaboration, and exclusive training webinars
by industry experts are the key features of Articulate 360.
There are several features to choose Articulate 360:
 Simple Account Management: User information,seat
information, billing details is at common place.
 Excellent Support: User support is provided withfast
and effective manner. Problem will be resolved within the
same day.

Figure 5: Proposed Architecture of E-Learning

⦁ Resource management layer: This layer willprovide the
services for resource management. This layer will provide a
loosely coupled binding between software and hardware so
during the demand of different resources it will be easier to
change the hardware or software depends on the user’s
requirement. With the help of virtualization of cloud
technology this task became easier. This layer contains Study
Management System (SMS), Content Management System
(CMS), Learning Management System (LMS), Virtual
Classroom Management, Course Management System Figure 6: Articulate 360 authoring tool
services.
⦁ Service layer: This layerprovides all the three
basicservices of cloud technology, namely, Software as a VIII. E-LEARNING CONTENT DATASTORE
service (SaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and (ELCD):
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)[15]. In SaaS, cloud E-Learning Content Data Store (ELCDS) is a common
computing service is provided to customers. Users of the location to store all the contents, which are designed for a
E-Learning will access our services by having a fast speed learner. Contents are uploaded by the Trainer itself who
internet connection. There is no need to have fast speed designed the contents or admin also can do it. There are
infrastructure, no need for specified software. Subscriber will several modules (subjects) in a course. Educational Institute
access these services by internet connection. No need to and student will purchase module according to their own
install software at end use side. They will pay a rental on requirements and the access of
monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly basis. that module will be provided to
them. In ELCDS contents will
⦁ Application layer: There are different types of userfor be in the form of documents,

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sheets, power point presentation and video. Discussion forum ⦁ Data security: In this architecture the primeconcern about
is also provided to get more clarity about the doubts. the security of our data because out data is not at our end it is
available at the cloud service providers end[18]. This mode
IX. MODULES IN E-LEARNING SYSTEM: provide security measures by which our data which is stored
Proposed E-Learning system is having the following modules: at cloud is encrypted and during data transfer at the user end it
⦁ User Login Module: All type of user for thesystem will be will be decrypted.
login threw this module.
⦁ User Registration Module: In this module superadmin X. RESULTS EVALUATION
creates id for admin, teacher, student and organization. A To evaluate the effectiveness and response of proposed
super admin is already exist in the system and only super system, a heuristic evaluation checklist is prepared which is
admin is having right to create admin. based on Pierotti was used [18]. In this response sheet we are
⦁ User Group Management Module: In this moduleunder an taking three response levels for the checklist criteria: (1) yes,
organization login we create no of users for various courses. (2) no, and (3) Not Applicable (NA). To check system
For a special course we can creates multiple users. usability [19] we are converting the answers into numbers on
⦁ Course Management Module: Various courseslike the basis of participants. Checklist [19][22] questions are
technical, computer, and science are created in this module. categorized into 12 parts.
⦁ Lecture Management Module: Lecture for aparticular
RESPONS
course is prepared in this module.
E (%)
⦁ Message Management Module: User of oursystem will get
notification on their mobile as well as password management
will also generate notification.
⦁ Mail Management Module: User registrationinformation, HEURISTIC
password recovery information and new courses available YES NO NA
information is communicated to user by mail module.
⦁ Video Lecture Management Module: A videolecture is User Management 93.0 4.0 3.0
also prepared to support some complex topics. This module
will manage video lecture creation, uploading and Course Management 94.8 2.2 3.0
downloading.
⦁ Webinar Management Module: User at thedifferent
courses will get special classes by webinar. In this module all Uniqueness in contents 92.0 5.0 3.0
different location user can connect and take participation in
training and discussion. Flexibility and Ease of use 94.0 3.0 3.0
⦁ BENEFITS TO PROPOSED E-LEARNING
ARCHITECTURE: Error Control 90.8 5.2 4.0
⦁ Improved performance: In cloud technology all
thepowerful and valuable resources are at cloud and not at Contents Quality 95.0 4.0 1.0
client side so the performance at client side services will
improve[16]. At client side not need to install the software
only internet connectivity is required so the performance will
Cost 93.6 3.4 3.0
be better.
⦁ Cost Effective: Documentation 91.0 6.0 4.0
In E-Learning environment the students and teachers are at
client end so there is no need to take high processing speed Customer Support 97.0 1.5 1.5
computers and high storage capacity. All the computation
speed and storage is provided by cloud to the end user. They Availability 93.7 3.0 3.3
will only pay subscription charge and internet
connection[16][17][20]. So the cost of user is saved. He is
getting high speed services[21] at his or her [Link] Recovery 91.0 4.7 4.3
accessing through their PC, mobile phones.
⦁ Benefits for students and teachers:In cloud Speed 95.0 2.0 3.0
basedE-Learning system students get benefits such as online
courses, video tutorial, discussion forums, online assignment, Average 93.4 3.7 3.0
online exam, online feedback system. In our proposed Graphical representation of the heuristic is represent in the
E-Learning system all the students of the courses will discuss figure 7
at the same platform without disclosing their identity.
This platform also helps teachers by conducting online tests
for students; create better content for student, getting students
from different corner of the world. They can conduct exercise
question[22] related with the topic and the data will be
permanently saved in cloud so no need to create it again for
another batch.

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