vCourse: A Course Platform Based on Virtualization Technology

DOI

10.2991/icetms.2013.142How to use a DOI?

Keywords

virtualization technology; virtual classroom; distance education; experiment education

Abstract

This paper presents a platform named vCourse based on the virtualization technology. vCourse supports multiple operation systems and multiple courses online. Teachers can create a course template and deploy it as many virtual machines. Students can do their exercises on those virtual machines and interact with others and the teacher. The features, structure and key mechanisms of vCourse are discussed in this paper. Two experiments are designed to evaluate the performance of vCourse. According to the test results, vCourse can run the typical software smoothly and is not very sensitive on the virtual machine numbers.

Copyright

© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yu Liu
AU  - Jinmo Wang
PY  - 2013/06
DA  - 2013/06
TI  - vCourse: A Course Platform Based on Virtualization Technology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 514
EP  - 517
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icetms.2013.142
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