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Virtual Personalized Learning Environment (VPLE) on the Cloud

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With the virtualization technology maturity and the growing up fast of the cloud computing services, the application service providers have changed the way to server customers. Meanwhile, the new service model let users access the resource with the browser of their thin devices. By the way, the application service providers do not need to buy many machines for the uncertain backup or expanded requirement. Because the Cloud Service can provision the computing resources for customers dynamically, the users also pay as their use. The innovation of information science and technology drives e-learning system to produce a new type of service and the personalization requirements of the users are fast growing up. This paper presents a solution for building a virtual and personalized learning environment which combines the technology of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) to create a service oriented model for the application service providers and the learners.

The proposed environment “Virtual Personalized Learning Environment” is intended for subscribing and excising of the selected learning resources as well as creating a personalized virtual classroom. This VPLE system allows the learning content providers to registry their applications in the server and the learners integrate other internet learning resources to their learning application pools.

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  1. Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan

    Po-Huei Liang

  2. Department of Management Information System, National ChengChi University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Po-Huei Liang & Jiann-Min Yang

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  1. Department of Computer and Inforamtion Science, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau, China

    Zhiguo Gong

  2. School of Computer, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, China

    Xiangfeng Luo

  3. College of Computer and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, 030024, Taiyuan, China

    Junjie Chen

  4. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, 200090, Shanghai, China

    Jingsheng Lei

  5. Department of Business Administration, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 18 Chui Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China

    Fu Lee Wang

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Liang, PH., Yang, JM. (2011). Virtual Personalized Learning Environment (VPLE) on the Cloud. In: Gong, Z., Luo, X., Chen, J., Lei, J., Wang, F.L. (eds) Web Information Systems and Mining. WISM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6988. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23982-3_49

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