Experiments in Collaborative Cloud-based Distance Learning

摘要

Mobile devices have revolutionary changed the process of multimedia consumption in distance learning systems and provide flexible user-oriented experience. M-learning systems typically include different kinds of multimedia resources helping learners to be more interactive and interested in collaboration. The proposed multi-tenancy group collaboration within the cloud-based learning platform (as a main contribution of this paper) provides easy and simple access to the cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) model and delivers improved interactive tools for distance learning. This collaborative and interactive cloud-based learning environment that students are using to develop and deploy intelligent multimedia content resources has been subjected to quality of experience (QoE) estimation. Using the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS) as estimation tool, the system has provided an effective collaboration environment between the students and the professor, by continuous interaction in the multi-tenant cloud environment.