How to solve the security and privacy problems within e-learning

Abstract

The knowledge and information based society requires a revolution in education system. These do directly result in the e-learning boom times. E-learning provides convenience for the learner, which makes anyone can study in anytime, anywhere. But the security and privacy problems could derail e-learning development plan in future. The learner's privacy may be violated while the personal information is collected, used, delivered, stored because of security mechanism. This paper provides perspective and prescription of security and privacy problems within e-learning. At first, we classify the motivation of privacy invasion within e-learning. Furthermore, we analyze information security mechanism and propose security solutions of privacy invasion problems. We focus on the methods how to constructing an e-learning system in that the learner ensure secure access to education resources and service.