Communication and Security Issues in Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This era is characterized by the rapid evolution of technology and its application in all sectors of day to day life. At the same time, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the distance education as vital, compulsory and worldwide, for Educational Institutions. The attainments of technology are set at the service of education and the problem of security and privacy in online learning is emerged. This paper focuses on the development of a secure online learning system, which utilizes edge computing and privacy mechanisms, such as trust evaluation from direct and indirect observations. The proposed system provides to the Educational Institutions the advantage of conducting online courses, by ensuring privacy in communication for students, professors and the organization. © 2021 IEEE.

Keywords

Author Keywords

COVID-19 privacy communication issues online learning system

Index Keywords

E-learning Learning systems Online learning COVID-19 privacy Educational institutions Online learning systems ITS applications Evolution of technology Technology application Communication issue Security issues

Author Affiliations

Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Western Macedonia, Greece

Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Funding & Acknowledgements

No funding information

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Communication and Security Issues in Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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