DESIGN A NETWORK FOR IRAQI UNIVERSITIES E-LEARNING CENTERS

Abstract: The e-Learning occupies a high interest in the international universities and academic institutes and given priority by departments in those educational institutions, what we are watching in Iraq with the development of information , communications, wireless networking technology and multimedia push in the direction of the adoption of e-Learning, where it could provide students with learning and knowledge by employing these technologies and continuous manners, regarding less time and place through the delivery, organizing educational materials electronically, so Iraqi student can review and learn from them, either side by side and directly with a lecturer, or through distance learning.[1] As long as the e-Learning is a form of distance learning, so it can be considered as a way to teach using the modern communication mechanisms, such as computers (of all kinds: personal, clients, servers) and networks and multimedia and Internet web applications to deliver information to students as soon as possible and less expensive and to enable the educational process to be management, arrangement, measuring and evaluating their performance. So from the above shows the importance of creating an electronic network for Iraqi universities and academic institutes that accommodates all abilities available to them to provide appropriate environments of software with tools, devices and mechanisms of linking to the environment according to the features of each device and its mission and its location within the network, taking into consideration the possibility of the development of specifications of the devices and probability of Network expansion in the future.[2]

Keywords: LMS (Learning Management System), LCMS (Learning Content Management System), SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model), SAN(storage area network), CCTV (closed circuit television), RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), ECBF(Explicit, Compressed, Beam forming), WebCT (Web Course Tools).