Enhancing Educational Learning with Social Network Platform

Abstract

In the world today, education has shown to be a major contributing factor to human and national development. The educational system developed in the last century has moved from traditional system to e-learning on static web and recently to dynamic web. With the advent of social network on the Internet, interaction has been encouraged round the world and the method of connecting everyone in the world is now so easy. Although there are various platforms that exist as social network, few of them integrate learning functionalities as a service. This paper provides a social network platform to enhance educational learning. The social network was designed using Unified modeling Language (UML) and implemented using open source software primarily to connect students and lecturer. The system extends the integration in the classroom further and thus, makes the learning process effective.