International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 145 - Number 9 |
Year of Publication: 2016 |
Authors: Carina Titus |
10.5120/ijca2016910760 |
Carina Titus . A Proposed Prototype on using Online Social Networks as Learning Platforms. International Journal of Computer Applications. 145, 9 ( Jul 2016), 19-26. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016910760
The fields of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) is full of open source and commercial products including Blackboard, WEB CT, and Moodle. These systems are tutor-oriented, not designed to facilitate personalized learning support for an individual learner. Instructors and students, frustrated with current LMS, need a new, innovative, user-friendly alternative to encourage and empower students to take control of their education, and teachers to explore new styles of teaching, depending on their students’ needs. This paper introduces a prototype which shows how OSNs can be used as e-learning platform for a simple, dedicated, learner-oriented e-learning system to facilitate the learning process. This prototype is meant to stimulate the use of OSNs for educational purposes for less technically savvy students.