Peer-to-peer infrastructures to support the delivery of Learning Objects

Author

Caviglione, Luca ; Coccoli, Mauro

Author_Institution

Inst of Intell. Syst. for Autom. (ISSIA), Nat. Res. Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

22-24 June 2010

Abstract

The adoption of the peer-to-peer (p2p) communication paradigm to enhance e-learning applications has been already proposed. However, advancements both in the knowledge society and p2p applications, allow to further push such joint utilization. The contribution of this paper is to survey the exploitation of p2p technologies within e-learning environments, as well as to investigate the open issues to bring distributed platforms to the next step. In addition, this work also introduces a general framework, based on BitTorrent, to support the delivery of Learning Objects.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent; e-learning; joint utilization; peer to peer infrastructure; Application software; Bandwidth; Communications technology; Computer science education; Educational technology; Electronic learning; IP networks; Intelligent systems; Marine technology; Peer to peer computing; e-learning; learning objects; overlay networks; peer-to-peer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6367-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529274

Filename

5529274