The Application of Mobile Storage Techniques in Distance Learning - An Electronic Notebook

Due to the development of Internet, many human behaviors were adapted to the virtual world, such as commerce, education, and entertainment, etc. Distance learning will play an important role in the near future. The concepts of 3A's, which are Administration, Awareness, and Assessment, are the basic guidelines of virtual university operations. As another factor, "Authoring", is very important as well. This paper provides an E-Notebook authoring tool used by students in a virtual university environment. The E-Notebook was developed on the Web and user can do the dynamic scratching. We design a schedule-oriented methodology to achieve the utility of mobile storage. Therefore, students can edit or read their notebook anywhere any time. User can design his/her schedule on the Web to describe his/her event, time, position, and action. An agent can monitor the schedule and perform the action, such as transferring data to the indicated position. The mobile agent will choose the shortcut such as a smart message to carry user's data according to the schedule. User can read his/her data without going through a long-distance network transfer.