Virtual
Educational System
Byelozyorov
Sergiy, Kovaluk Tetyana
Department
of computer-aided management and data processing systems, Faculty of Informatics
and Computer Engineering, National technical university of Ukraine “Kyiv
polytechnic institute”, 37 Prospect Peremohy, 03056, Kyiv, Ukraine, tetyana@asu.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
Virtual
Educational System (VES) is a web-based system for education and e-Science
purposes. It was developed to improve communications between teachers, students
and other scientists working at the department. It also allows to store and
spread materials that are required for students’ learning process or for any
scientific research. For example, a teacher can provide some lectures in a
readable form and students may download and review them at home.
The
system also provides authentication and authorization mechanisms and allows the
owner to control who can access his or her materials. VES initially was
developed as a modular-sized program and any functionality can be easily added or
extended.
For
instance, as for interest increase in GRID systems, new functionality has been
added allowing to access remote GRID resources such as
data resources, computing resources, informational resources or any others. On
the other hand every existing component may provide its own resources which can
be accessed in GRID. These include but not limited to such data resources as
relational databases on the department servers, rich-text formatted lectures,
textual books, simple files etc.
Speaking
about education it usually involves students’ progress control and for address
this problem the testing system was developed as a part of this educational
system. It allows creating and running tests and was developed according to IMS
Question and Test Interoperability standard and can export or import external
tests in XML. Results are stored in database and are used to compute student’s
average progress. Additional calculations on results are provided to fit
Bologna Process in
Finally
all these components are compiled together into one system and collaborate with
each other, which allows to use them efficiently for educational and e-Science.