23-10-2014, 12:36 PM
Abstracts: “Virtual education is an emerging concept. Here the classes are not taken face-to face in a Classroom but through an electronic medium as a substitute. These virtual classrooms are gaining Importance every day and very soon they are going to be an integral part of our world. Taking up these virtual classes through an electronic medium is termed as E-Learning. Today ELearning is no more a technical word that only a few people know. It is turning to be a part of everyone's life whether a student, employee or a housewife all tend to use E-Learning in oneway or another. Larger organizations are turning towards E-Learning solution for proving training digitally. As the number of Internetaccess points are growing rapidly, E-Learning is also gaining a new peak. This electronic medium serves best for dissemination of information. E-Learning is proving itself as a boon for students especially for the disabled who are not able to go and attend the lectures. All these emphasis the need for developing Open Source software that can be used to generate rich multimedia presentation for E-Learning. Cloud computing is growing rapidly, with applications in almost any area, including education. E-learning Systems usuallyrequire many hardware and software resources. There are many educational institutions that cannot afford such investments, and cloud computing is the best solution. This paper presents the positive impact of using Cloud computing architectures upon e-learning solutions development. It focuses on the benefits of cloud computing for E-learning solutions and the e-learning project management challenges when this architecture is used.