Toward Design of E-Learning Platform in Grid Environments

In recent years, with the rapid development of communication and network technologies, elearning has been popularized and it became one of the most well-known teaching methods, due to its practicability. However, current e-learning systems present drawbacks. The key problem in present e-learning researches is regarding to ways to support learning systems in scalable, open, dynamic and heterogeneous environments. In this paper, we introduce an e-learning architecture based on grid technology to support learning in distributed environments. A prototype of elearning platform using grid environment is proposed, built up using a number of open source e-learning softwares in a heterogeneous