Peer-to-Peer Communication for Computer-supported Collaborative Learning

摘要

Computer-supported collaborative learning is an important domain of e-learning dealing with researching efficient methods to encourage the people to learn together with the help of their computers. The learning environments used in this domain are usually client-server based solutions with some extra functionality needed for the collaboration between the members. Because of its architecture, which is similar to the collaborative learning network, the peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is suggested as a better solution. This paper introduces a P2P-based framework for applications in the area of computer-supported cooperative learning. This framework embodies a platform for P2P learning applications and consists of four different layers. It includes different P2P modules and chooses the module that works best according to the application requirements. The paper shows the advantage of the proposed framework.