Panel discussion: Secured environment for end-users and contents

The roll over from traditional/classroom to E-Learning has been seen as a new dimension promoting information technology skills. Now relatively all institutions or organisations provide some form of Internet access as almost all have websites. E-Learning has established improved teaching and learning resources, which tend to be the centre of attraction for most educational institutions and organisations that train their staff. As E-Learning becomes open, distributed and interconnected, security becomes an important challenge. E-Learning has provided an alternative compared to the traditional/classroom method for information and instructions to be shared across the World Wide Web (WWW) between the learner and the tutor. Therefore, as E-Learning increases in popularity, educational institutions and corporations run online courses and thus need to understand security issues related to E-Learning. The use of computer systems and networks results in a wide range of security issues that must be dealt with in order to create a safe learning environment.