E-Education through Information Technology

Information Technology has made information about any even or phenomena taking place at
any place in the world at any time, available to any person anywhere is the basis of
knowledge acquisition process has therefore tremendously benefited by the advent of
information technology.

Virtual Bank of Experts:

In the case of formal education, the main determining factor about the quality of education is
the quality of the teaching material, curriculum and course contents. In a conventional
system, the teaching material is designed and developed by the expert resources available in a
particular academic institution or University. In e-education scenario the contents of various
courses can be prepared by a virtual bank of experts. The experts from all over the world can
participate through Internet meetings and discussions. The contents created can be stored on
servers and be made available to any University anywhere in the world.

The second pre-requisite of good education system is the expert teachers. In countries like
India, there is tremendous shortage of teachers particularly in remote areas. The students are
deprived of good education for want of both material and teachers. The Integrated Internet
Education System of e-education delivers the courses to the students directly at their door
step using various tools like multimedia and virtual reality. The local teachers have to act
only as facilitator.

The expert resources of the virtual bank of experts are also available to the students through
Internet, E-mail, chat sessions, video- conferences and video phones. In a very simple system
one can use MSN messengers’ service or Yahoo messenger service and can get into a
conference with the expert teacher and instantaneously exchange typed messages. The
student can ask questions, clarifications and the teachers can send replies from their
respective PCs at their homes.

Memory Technology:

The growth of Internet has accelerated the growth of many technologies. One of them is the
memory of technology. Compact Disk Read only memory (CD-ROM) and Digital Versatile
Disk (DVD) are two popular media used in the e-education system. Enormous amount of data
640 mb on CD-ROM on a DVD can be stored and these compact disk can be physically
transported to any school.
The multimedia contents of these CDs can then be presented to the students thereby giving
them the benefit of best education. Another advantage of the virtual school is that it caters to
the requirements of the not so well gifted” or the under achievers. The basic concept is that
all pupils in the same age group are capable of reaching the same academic achievements, if
provided appropriate education.

E-education at higher institutions has become an entirely different phenomenon.

Unfathomable oceans of knowledge are being generated and are becoming accessible through
innumerable servers of the Internet. Students can apply for a course through e-mail, receive
instructions material on Internet receive consultation, receive question paper, send the answer
sheets and finally get a degree certificate through e-mail. It will be only necessary to take a
print out if hard copy is necessary for compilation of the process.

Digital libraries provide multiple accesses to the same material at the same time. Researchers
have instances access to any reference material from any of these libraries all over the world.
The information about patents and intellectual property rights in digital form has helped the
knowledge development process.

Knowledge People—Information technology has created a new class of professionals. There

are knowledge workers and knowledge managers in the society today then there are the
knowledge users. To derive benefit of the technology in his day-to-day life, every person
should be able to operate the spacing computer and the Internet. In addition to this the
knowledge workers and knowledge managers are to be prepared by the education system.

One more class of students created by e-education system is the technicians and
technologists, who can develop the technology, realize it and then operate the systems for the
user. The Internet technology has thus made the best teaching material and best education
technology available to all students irrespective of their geographical location and political
affiliations.

IT Infrastructures

Internet Platforms

Linux is the Internet hardware server at the moment for our group. Internet platforms overlap
with, and must relate to, the firm’s general networking infrastructure and hardware and
software platforms

Computer Hardware Platforms

In 2008, U.S. firms spend about $150 billion on computer hardware. This component
includes client machines and server machines. The server market is complex. Our group is
using HP and IBM, which are the top firms in the market that concentrated in.

Operating Systems Platforms

At the client level, 95% of PCs in the world use Microsoft Windows operating system to
manage the resources and activities of the computer and our group is one in the category. We
are also comprised with Linux as our secondary operating system, which is inexpensive and
reliable.

Networking/Telecommunications

Windows Server is predominantly used as local area network operating system, followed by
Linux and Unix. Many local area networks, as well as wide area enterprise networks, use
TCP/IP protocol suite as standard.TM is the largest telecommunications service company that
offer voice and data connectivity, wide area networking and Internet access.

Consultants and System Integrators

Software integration means ensuring the new infrastructure works with the firm’s older, so-
called legacy systems and ensuring the new elements of infrastructure work with one another.
This is not necessary for the group while it’s costly.

Data Management and Storage

There are few choices for enterprise database management software, which is responsible for
organizing and managing date so that it can be efficiently accessed and used. We are engage
with SQL Server by Microsoft, which is one of the leading database software providers.

Issues and Challenges

The biggest challenges for IT professionals are applications, integration, financial and
cultural. There are still some issues on security, connection problems, management cost
control, employees’ knowledge and training, updated hardware and software, data storage and
documentation.

The Integration Challenges

Consolidating and integrating multiple finance data warehouses into a single, unified data
warehouse is something IT still struggles with.

Cloud Computing
Cloud computing refers to a model of computing where firms and individuals obtain
computing power and software applications over the internet, rather than purchasing their
own hardware and software The cloud computing service model involves the provision, by a
service provider, of large pools of high performance computing resources and high-capacity
storage devices that are shared among end users as required

. The service provider’s offering may also extend to the software applications required by the
end user. Cloud service model requires a high-speed network to provide connection between
the end user and the service provider’s infrastructure.

Cloud computing potentially offers an overall financial benefit, in that end users share a
large, centrally managed pool of storage and computing resources, rather than owning and
managing their own systems. The end user in turn sees convenience benefits from having data
and services available from any location, from having data backups centrally managed, from
the availability of increased capacity when needed, and from usage-based charging. A number
of organizations are already hosting and/or offering cloud computing services. Examples
include Google Docs, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage services,
Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform, IBM’s Smart Business Services, Salesforce.com, and
WebEx

Cloud computing will help the group save money in the long run, and to be more productive
when documentations are done within a faster period. And also provide employees with a
greater IT environment with always getting the most updated software in the market. With
cloud computing, the aim is to hide the complexity of IT infrastructure management from its
users. At the same time, cloud computing platforms provide massive scalability, reliability,
high performance, and specifiable configurability. These capabilities are provided at
relatively low costs compared to dedicated infrastructures.

Cloud computing is making it possible to separate the process of building an infrastructure

for service provisioning from the business of providing end user services. It will cut
complexity, improve flexibility and make IT more strategic to business there is a
misconception about the cloud that the Cloud is cheaper than traditional IT.