Development of a cloud-based network teaching platform

Abstract

At present, teachers and students are unable to communicatewith each other directly in the network courses so that the teaching quality hasbeen compromised. Moreover, teaching process becomes slow in traditionalteaching mode of network course. In this project, we introduced an innovativePBL (Problem Based Learning) teaching method and combined teacher andstudent interaction for a network course, while utilizing cloud computing. Inaddition, all workstations were card workstations to reduce the delay of teachingtask. We designed a platform with a personnel information module and alearning service module. The learning service module covers three main functions:teaching service resources management, online coaching, and assignmentsubmission and correction. The evaluation outcome shows that the learning outcomeand learning interest was superior for students who used the PBL networkteaching platform, compared to the students who didn't use this platform.