Security Challenges of Distributed e-Learning Systems

摘要

Security considerations play an increasingly important role for distributed computing. In today's Internet age, academia requires sharing, distributing, merging, changing information, linking applications and other resources within and among universities and other related organizations. Because e-learning systems are open, distributed and interconnected, then security becomes an important challenge in order to insure that interested actors only have access to the right information at the appropriate time. The purpose of this paper is to give an in-depth understanding of most important security challenges that can be relevant for distributed e-learning systems.