A Survey on Trust and Trustworthy E-learning System

Trust is an important topic in information security research and is oriented to increase the reliability and performance of a web-based system in open networks. A trustworthy e-learning system is a trust-based learning system which contains reliable serving peers and useful learning resources. In this paper, a survey of trust researches in trust management and computing is presented at first and then the researches of trustworthy e-learning using trust models is discussed. This survey wants to offer a succinct summary of current trust model and a panoramic view on trustworthy e-learning studies and encourages more proper trust model designed for constructing reliable e-learning system in the complex and changing network environment.