APPLE: A Novel P2P Based e-Learning Environment

• Published in: Distributed Computing - IWDC 2004 pp. 52 - 62
• Main Authors: Jin, Hai, Yin, Zuoning, Yang, Xudong, Wang, Fucheng, Ma, Jie, Wang, Hao, Yin, Jiangpei
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2004
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Father Node; Grid Service; Grid Technology; Resource Layer; Virtual Classroom
• ISBN: 9783540240761; 3540240764
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30536-1_7

With the rapid development of information technology, dramatic changes have been taken place in the fundamental ways that people acquire and disseminate knowledge. Various e-Learning systems have been designed to help people take full advantage of the benefit brought by the technology. The newly emerged Peer to Peer (P2P) and grid computing will serve as the key driven forces to bring revolutionary impact on the future society. This paper evaluates the potential contribution of the P2P and grid technology into the e-Learning system and introduces a novel P2P based e-Learning environment, called APPLE. With the help of Gnutella-like P2P network, APPLE provides live broadcasting services to share services of education resources. We build a virtual classroom service based on WSRF.NET, which exposes the service as a grid service that could be accessed by all the users among the grid.