HARNESSING CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-LEARNING SERVICES

Božidar Radenković, Marijana Despotović-Zrakić, Zorica Bogdanović, Vladimir Vujin, Dušan Barać

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357

Abstract


This paper introduces an innovative model for harnessing cloud computing infrastructure within an e-learning ecosystem. The main goal was to design a scalable, reliable and secure IT environment that provides a plethora of e-learning services and seamless integration of the heterogeneous e-learning components through IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud service models. The e-learning services are tailored to foster courses for IT engineers in the areas of mobile technologies, social computing, Internet of Things and big data. The model was implemented and evaluated in the e-learning ecosystem of the E-business Lab, University of Belgrade.

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