Presented By: Guided By:

Shaikh Mussavir A. Prof. C. P. Navdeti

Framework and Architecture for
Programming Education
Environment as a Cloud
Computing Service
Outline
Introduction
Requirements of Programming Education Cloud
Services
Framework and architecture of Programming
Education Cloud Service
Implementation of cloud C++ workbook
Conclusions & future work
References
Questions




Introduction
What is cloud computing ?
Cloud Computing characteristics
Cloud Computing services in academics organizations
What is E-learning
Model of E-learning cloud education
Architecture of E-learning Cloud
What is Cloud Computing?
Definition
Cloud computing is a type of computing that provides
simple, on-demand access to pools of highly elastic
computing resources
Or even more concise and clearly
Cloud computing is a style of computing where computing
resources and are easy to obtain and access, simple to
use, cheap, and just work
Cloud Computing Characteristics
On demand self service
Broad network access
Resources pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measure service
Cloud Computing Services in
Academics Organizations

Used as personal workspace
Convenient tool to make teaching and learning interactive
Provide opportunity for ubiquitous computing
No need to backing up everything
No need to copy all stuff from one PC to another
Provide large amount of processing power
Definition
E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported
learning and teaching. The information and communication
systems, whether networked learning or not, serve as
specific media to implement the learning process

What is E-learning?
Model of E-learning Cloud Education


Servers


Technologies
E-learning
Cloud
Cloud
Provider
Cloud users
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Cloud provider is responsible for
Building and maintaining e-learning cloud
Providing technical support to e-learning cloud

Cloud users request to cloud provider for services to e-
learning cloud
E-learning cloud will provide the services accessed based
on users





Service




Figure : Architecture of E-learning Cloud

Software
Resource





Compute Cloud Storage Cloud
SaaS
Resource
Management
PaaS
IaaS
Users
Education
Management
Teaching
Evaluation
Education
Platform
Content
Delivery
Content
Creation
Application
Architecture of E-learning Cloud
Components are divided into five different layers
Hardware Resource layer
Software Resource layer
Resource management layer
Service layer
Application layer
Our work only focus on Application layer


Requirements of Programming
Education Cloud Services

Cloud computing services for providing programming
education includes C++ Workbook which has various
user centric provision and administration functions
There are requirements for
Administrator
Instructor
Student



Administrator




Instructor






Student
Figure : Roles for users of programming education cloud service
Create Announcement
Join Classroom
View Results
View Announcement
Solve Problem Set
View logs and result
Manage Classrooms
Manage Problem set
Manage Question
Problem
Manage Logs
Manage users
Manage classroom
Framework and Architecture of
Programming Education Cloud Service


Services offered in Programming Education Environment
include
Logging of programming activities
Program Plagiarism detection
Programming workbook
Automatic programming marking
To demonstrate the working mechanism of the
framework C++ Workbook is designed and developed as
a Software as a Service (SAAS)












Figure: Architecture of Programming Education as Cloud Service
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The architectural components of the application have been
divided into three sections so that each section includes a
set of functions for three specific user roles i.e.
Administrator, Instructor and Student
This is illustrated by Following Figure
Student Instructor Administrator
SAAS
PAAS
IAAS
C++ WORKBOOK
ONLINE
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
Data Storage
Center
Backup and
Recovery
Computation
of Score
Figure : Architecture of C++ workbook as cloud service
Implementation of Cloud C++
Workbook
C++ WORKBOOK uses Google App Engine for the platform
and infrastructure services
Application is developed in java
Target users are divided into three categories representing
Administrator
Instructor
Student




Figure : A Screenshot of the C++WORKBOOK main page
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Administrator Features
Responsible for managing accounts of students and
instructor
Creating classrooms
Allocating new instructor to existing classrooms
Updating question banks
Handling management of changes in application

Figure: Administrator main page



Figure : Setting questions for the question bank



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Instructor Features
Lecturer who teaches programming subject through
the system is able to
Create classroom
Assign his teaching assistant to be instructor for his class
Assign students to selected classroom
Create a problem set of exercise/quiz/exam
Select questions from the question bank for the problem
set
Supervise students assigned to him by giving advices in
terms of solving questions
Monitor students progress
Figure : Instructor main service

Figure : Instructor page for creating problem set
Figure : Announcement module interface
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Student Features
A student who has been registered by the system
administrator has the right to
Request to join any classroom available
Complete exercise/quiz/exam that has been assigned
for the selected classroom
Find the right answers and marks from the response to
the exercise/quiz/exam, since the system
automatically calculates marks
Figure : A student screenshot for result and marks
Conclusion and Future Work
Study presented discuss the challenges of e-learning
and the potential of cloud computing to improve
management of e-learning system
We have proposed a framework for programming
education as a cloud service which combines the
elements from current practices of e-Workbook, e-
Learning and cloud computing technologies
The concept of e-learning environment through the use
of a new technique such as cloud computing
technology can be materialized in educational
institutions in various stages

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Academic institutions can benefit economically using cloud
computing environment because of minimal cost for
administration, and maintenance, high uptime and ease of
usage
Future work is adding remaining services
References
[1] Amir Mohamed Elamir,Norleyza jailani*,Marini Abu Baker. Framework and
Architecture for Programming Education Environment as a Cloud Computing Service,
The 4
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International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics,2013.Page
No.1299-1308

[2] Mell P., and Grance T. Effectively and Securely Using the Cloud Computing Paradigm,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Information Technology Laboratory.
2009. http://gat1.isoc.org.il/conf2010/handouts/Yesha_Sivan.pdf

[3] AmazonEC2AmazonWebServices@Amazon.com. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2

[4] AmazonS3AmazonWebServices@Amazon.com. http://aws.amazon.com/s3

[5] Google App Engine - Google Code. http://code.google.com/appengine/






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