CLOUD BASED E-LEARNING MODEL FOR ETHIOPIAN EMPLOYEES

Duol Kuey Deng; Getahun Tigistu; Durga Prasad Sharma

Duol Kuey Deng Lecturer, Faculty of Computing & Software Engineering Gambela University, Ethiopia.
Getahun Tigistu Lecturer, Faculty of Computing & Software Engineering, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia.
Durga Prasad Sharma Professor AMUIT, MOEFDRE under UNDP & MAISM RTU, India.

Keywords: UCELM, Disables, Females, Employees, Cloud Computing, E-learning

Abstract

Many institutions across the world have been trying to upgrade/transform their educational systems to reduce the cost of learning with high comfort. Ethiopian education system is one of them, which is has been facing critical challenges to afford the education extensions & teaching facilities. This problem becomes critical to those who are Employees, disables and females with pregnancy or the learners who cannot join the classes on regular basis with traditional teaching learning processes like regular, summer, extension and distance education. In recent years, few institutions in Ethiopia tried to encounter accessibility barriers by adopting advanced learning & teaching systems but acceptance level of such systems is still not satisfactory and popular. However, it has been observed that there is a strong and urgent need to have better and alternative educational platforms with extensive accessibility. The strategic shift from traditional classroom to e-learning and e-learning to cloud based learning can be a promising change and significant improvement for next generation teaching- learning environment. To achieve this, a Unified Cloud based E-Learning Model (UCELM) was proposed and functionally tested using Cloud Services opens source application.

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