Socio-Educational E-Learning Platform - Proposition

Universities rely on some kind of learning management system (LMS) for distribution of lecture recourses, books, video tutorials etc. Such systems are usually incorporated and work in parallel with traditional teaching methods to create a cohesive learning environment for students. Unfortunately, we are not always successful in creating such environments. Being unable to completely integrate IS (information system), e-learning system and LMS systems, and the lack of adequate communication components in those systems, results in diminishment of social interactions between teachers and students. That means that students have to rely on some other form of communication medium, usually social networks, to be able to interconnect, create social groups and interact. Social networks enable proper group organization and real-time communication between students. The proposed platform will try to create a correlation between the IS, the e-learning system giving it social network aspect and enabling direct, two-sided and transparent communication between students, teachers and university administration.