Comfort, confidence and confidentiality: the experiences of two e-learners

This paper is based on the authors’ experiences as e-learners on a MEd in Collaborative Networked Learning during 2000-2002. Although this course was delivered completely online, a strong sense of community developed early and continued as a key theme throughout the two years of the course. Our paper examines how this sense of community was facilitated and maintained, based on narrative analysis of our learning journals and personal recollections.

SecGOD - Google Docs: Now I Feel Safer!

This paper presents SecGOD. A tool that protects the privacy of documents created with online office suites. SecGOD is implemented as a Greasemonkey java-script making it deployable on all popular greesemonkey compatible browsers and utilizes symmetric key encryption. All operations run on the client side, with SecGOD operating invisibly as concerned by the cloud, with no changes needed to the code that is provided to the cloud server provider. Finally, the effectiveness of SecGOD is demonstrated by conducting extensive experiments measuring the processing time for the three versions of AES (128, 192, 256 bits).