Title :
Facilitating access to course contents during war situation with M-Learning and Cloud Computing technologies
Author :
Wannous, Muhammad ; Mahfuri, Mahmoud ; Nakano, Hiroshi ; Nagai, Takayuki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Int. Univ. for Sci. & Technol., Daraa, Syria
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computer aided instruction; educational courses; educational institutions; mobile computing; Damascus; Syria; cloud computing technology; course content; course material; educational process; m-learning technology; mobile devices; mobile learning; private universities; war situation; Androids; Cloud computing; Education; Google; Materials; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Campus Down; Cloud Computing; Course Contents Distribution; Mobile-Learning;
Conference_Titel :
Teaching, Assessment and Learning (TALE), 2014 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/TALE.2014.7062592