Volume 7, Issue 7 (July 2020), Pages: 83-91

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Cloud-based learning service platform for multilingual smart class

 Author(s): Arif Bramantoro ^1, *, Ahmad A. Alzahrani ², Adel A. Bahaddad ², Ahmed S. Alfakeeh ²

 Affiliation(s):

 ¹Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia
 ²Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2772-9427

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.07.010

 Abstract:

The spread of cloud computing is accelerating universities to seek a better educational approach for capitalizing on its capabilities. With the practice of cloud computing in Saudi Arabia universities, instructors are yet unable to interact with the students face-to-face due to the gender separation practice. It becomes worse in a multilingual environment as the students are less fluent in the first language formally practiced in the university. With the current best practice, the students are able to utilize one app to translate the presentation slides and another app to translate the instructor's speech. The student prefers to comprehend the learning materials, although it delays the process of teaching. Therefore, there is a need to integrate current practices. A prototype of a smart class based on cloud computing is developed to ease the use of a mobile device. This project is evaluated by utilizing both direct and indirect assessment spanning across three academic semesters. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Smart class, Web services, Learning management tools, Cloud computing

 Article History: Received 16 December 2019, Received in revised form 5 April 2020, Accepted 20 April 2020

 Acknowledgment:

This project was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, under grant no. G:379-830-1439. The authors, therefore, gratefully acknowledge the DSR technical and financial support.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Bramantoro A, Alzahrani AA, and Bahaddad AA et al. (2020). Cloud-based learning service platform for multilingual smart class. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(7): 83-91

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