Project Fact File

Title: Security and privacy issues in E-learning
Category: IT
Area: E-learning, Security, privacy
No. of units: 1
Supervisor: Hua Wang (Staff Profile)
Description:

The increasing requirements of education, reduction of study cost and no location limits study have encouraged developers providing different types of learning systems. While a variety of E-learning advantages have been recognised for a long time and many advances in E-learning system have been implemented, the needs on security and privacy protecting which provide new challenges have only begun to be studied. This project is to study the particular problems and challenges of the E-learning environment. The goal of the project is therefore to foster communication between various communities including security and privacy communities, distributed systems and information systems communities.

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