Collaborative Learning Discussion 1 (Response to peers)

Response to Stella

I agree with the difficulty of finding a balance between the profits generated by a company and the ethical principles or the perception of its difficulty. It is a delicate subject because the relativity of things and the multiple ways of seeing things require, what you mention, a continuous evaluation to balance the elements.

One other part just for this particular case, I may differ from yourself is in the fact that they may be diminishing the severity of vulnerabilities of the device. The balance of risk and functionality may be specific to each case; in some cases, the risks will be considered high, and in others, low. If the identified vulnerability can reset the values, the identification of that event will make the effect depreciable. This is not to say that it cannot be improved.

I agree with the perception the public may have regarding the relationship between profit and ethics. 

Response to Nisa

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

After reading the case study about Corazon, I completely agree with you about the commitment of this start-up to compliance with and observance of codes.

I believe the concept of a mechanism to enforce ethics principles is a point on which ethics governance should focus. Legally enforcing ethics principles would mean that the ethics codes would be outside the professionally binding codes. So, a delimitation and definition of what is legal and what is ethical is also needed.

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Literature Review

Guiding notes

What is this, Why is This, How is this (think as a researcher)

Independent research -> Act as a researcher to meet the expectations. For example, if the supervisor asks, why are you saying this and not this other? Then, we need to have What, Why and How. Use Methods and Methodology. Research methods are how we obtain data. Methodology is about models and frameworks to conduct your study.

There are different research strategies. How are we going actually to do the research? What would be your research strategies? Is it descriptive research? Is it an exploratory type of research? Is it a case study? Is it experimental? Is it developmental? There are almost 10 to 15 different strategies. So you need to come up with it.

Project

Cloud Computing -> What are the wrong things? What are the challenges and problems? Then, conclude, find a solution (s), and then say the solution to minimise the problem or the impact.

Find relevant literature research relative to my topic/concept. How do you nail down this and formulate a research topic? Research design (build new system/ theory / testing an existing system/theory) . Critically evaluate the existing literature for that specific topic.

Research is a systematic process aiming to discover new knowledge in a particular field for a particular problem. Interpret and expand that knowledge.

Find specific problems in Cloud computer. 

A single drop of water will be the entry point to start research (describe, explore, experiment, whatever). It must be relative to a particular drop of water. If we don’t know the drop of water we describe it, experiment in order to find out more. Narrow down your thinking/ ideas.

Choose a topic you are genuinely interested in finding a solution for that problem.  We can use the same topic for the actual research.

Taking into account the above guiding notes, I have picked the title "Security risks in Cloud-based e-learning: A Literature Review" and I have written the following introduction.

With early foundations in the 1960s, research in virtualisation, operative systems, storage, and networking in the 1970s and 1980s, the maturity of its foundational technology in the 1990s, the introduction of the modern concepts of cloud computing were materialised by the launching of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the early 2000s (Varghese, 2019). The modern cloud computing models SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS provide service solutions for different enterprise requirements. As flexibility is one of the main characteristics of cloud computing, the solutions will vary from one organisation to another. The levels of scalability, control, and security are different for different implementations.

Storing data on the cloud, where multiple locations potentially exist, represents a security risk. Security risks are associated with some of the fundamental elements of cloud computing, such as virtualisation, limited visibility, and multiple locations. These risks can also include data loss and data breaches.

In modern educational systems, mobile, distance and web-based learning are essential and driven by cloud services (Paul et al., 2023). Collaboration is another crucial concept in e-learning; it allows students to interact and work together on tasks assigned by the teachers. Here, the concept of flexibility becomes essential because it makes the mentioned interaction possible. All these benefits can put the security of data at risk, and although cloud service providers invest a lot in security measures, risks are still a problem to solve.

In this review, we focus on the security risks that affect the e-learning activities of educational organisations that have moved their services to the cloud, the challenges they face and the actions they take to mitigate or prevent the effects of potential threats.

References
Paul, P.K., Aithal P.S., Chatteriee, R. & Saavedra, R. (2023). Cloud Computing and its Impact in Education, Teaching and Research-A Scientific Review. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8078784

Varghese, B. (2019) History of the Cloud. Available from: https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/history-of-the-cloud/ [Accessed 14 April 2024]