Design and Test of a Deployable Community Based Edu-Cloud for Remote Learning in a Pandemic Situation

Date of Award

8-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electronics Engineering

First Advisor

Nathaniel Joseph C. Libatique, PhD

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption of education in history having universal impact on teachers and learners across the world. It leads to the government to implement disaster mitigation and risk resilience to human mobility that leads to social isolation of teachers and learners. It changed the landscape of the education system as educators find new and effective learning modalities of content delivery especially online platforms via internet as an alternative way to the traditional face-to-face classes. Filipinos are paying one of the most expensive and yet, slowest internet connection services in the world. In this study, it aims to Design and Implement an Edu-Cloud Infrastructure in a local community as kiosk for utilizing the system on remote learning to bridge the digitally divide bandwidth constraint areas. A prototype was provided for Synchronous, Asynchronous distribution and content management of learning materials to augment and support the remote learning workflows of the stakeholders. The prototype was clustered to segment its capabilities based on the stakeholders needs and implement redundancy in case of device failure. Performed and Measured several performance characteristics for the initial and final set-up made on the local community assuring Quality of Service (QoS). Test results showed that the Edu-cloud system deployed in the local community was usable to the stakeholders and still powerful in terms of resources.

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