Title: Finance e-learning and simulation toward the cloud service environment

Authors: Hsing-Wen Wang

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, No. 2, Shi-Da Rd., Changhua City 500, Taiwan

Abstract: Finance-related courses heavily rely on the statistics and simulation tools to assistant teaching and learning. However, the maintaining costs remaining high, portability still not so well and hard to make license control. Many applications on finance e-learning such as derivatives valuation, portfolios management, scenario simulation, index databases and more can all be accessed from Browser-based browser via mobile platforms or desktop computers. This paper presents a structure of cloud service-based case study for providing a virtual cloud learning environment which combines a wide range of technology and tools to create involve research method for finance e-learning education base on previous studies. The environment is intended for designing and simulation of educational content as well as creating a platform for exploring ideas. The system allows exchange of educational content; integrate different teaching approaches, collaborative learning and easy to learning and teaching under the web service-based cloud environment.

Keywords: finance e-learning; cloud services; virtual environments; cloud learning; mobile platforms; cloud computing; electronic learning; online learning; finance education; mobile communications; derivatives valuation; portfolio management; scenario simulation; collaborative learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPT.2010.039232

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2010 Vol.5 No.4, pp.210 - 218

Published online: 28 Mar 2011 *

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