The Design And Development Of Basic Database Platform Prototype Of E-education In China

With the development of computer technology and network communication technology in the field of education, the development and research of e-education are gradually being put on the agenda. China’s investment in e-education is doubling every year, with the development in the past decades, e-education in China have achieved fruitful results at all levels. However, the research about the level assessment of e-education and its future development prediction is so little. In order to assess e-education development level better, to master basic education, higher education and vocational e-education present development situation of every area in China generally, to forecast the development direction and trend of e-education in China with science, e-education development has been established as an important subject by the Ministry of education. The "E-education Strategic Research Base (Central China)" in the National Engineering Research Center For e-Learning of Central China Normal University was formally agreed to establish by the Ministry of Education in March2011, which marks that the e-education in China has entered into a higher platform and the development of e-education is moving from the stage of "application" to the stage of "fusion" and "innovation", officially entering the stage of standardization, specialization, and institutionalization.Based on this background, the design and development of the e-education basic database platform is focused in this paper, aiming to establish an open platform combining a variety of functions including information dissemination about domestic and foreign e-education, documentation download, data visualization, automatic assessment and prediction of the level of e-education, meeting the needs of different users. The paper carried out the study from the following aspects:(1) Requirement analysis of the e-education basic database platform. This part mainly analyzed the status of e-education management, user categories, functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, then constructed the data model according to the demands, finally briefly introduced the key technology used in the platform.(2) Design of the e-education basic database platform. This part determined the overall solutions of the e-education basic database platform combining with various needs, and discussed the design from several aspects, such as architecture design, functional structure design, database design and interface design.(3) The development of the e-education basic database platform prototype. This part mainly introduced the three-tier technical architecture based on the B/S model, discussing the development of the platform from the data access layer, business logic layer to the presentation layer, and displayed the implementation process and effect figures of the main modules of the platform in the presentation layer.(4) The testing of the e-education basic database platform prototype. This part mainly discussed the test method and contents, test plan, test case design and test results analysis. The functionality and performance testing were carried out with manual testing and tool testing.After the detailed requirement analysis and design, this platform prototype’s basic function has been realized and its function and performance testing were passed. The successful application of this platform will make a contribution for the study of e-education project in China.