Towards Secure m-Learning: An Analysis
Aasim Zafar, Syed Hamid Hasan, M. Saleem Trigui, Saudi Arabia · 2014
M-Learning with its various advantages has been recognized as the need of the hour by the various organizations and universities and they are resorting to online education. However, though it may seem a very simple task the need of security and privacy in the domain is essential and it has been ignored for quite some time. In few of the exceptions made to the above statement, the accommodation of security and privacy has been done at arbitrary level which is not planned. We can term security as the methodology of ensuring integrity of data and to protect the policies of the organization implementing the m-Learning. While privacy is maintaining of an environment where the student can control how his private information is stored and shared. The paper would be discussing the elementary rules and practices of security and privacy. It would also analyze the commonly accepted standard of m-Learning to examine how they deal with security and privacy. Requirement of privacy in the m-Learning system is done keeping Privacy principles in mind.