Social Community Multimedia E-Learning Site

Abstract

The use of information technology in the area of education plays a major part in today’s learning technology development. Many new revolutionary ways of learning have been invented, thanks to the progress of the information technology. One of them that catches the world’s attention is e-learning technology. The vast growing usage of e-learning has just begun recently, not only educational institutions that are using it, but many companies are also using it to provide trainings for their workforces. What concerns here is, why not e-learning usage be available to anyone in any part of the world where each user can interact an share their knowledge together, and how a social commuity multimedia e-learning can be developed as well as its effectivity in view of its concept within the framework of e-learning evolution. Using e-learning which is absolutely dependent on the Internet in delivering its content, it is very plausible to implement the concept of social community e-learning site which emphasizes on user interactions rather than one way static content distribution. Many social community sites has been created today, such as friendster and facebook. The idea here is to combine the flexibility of the social community site with the power of e-learning to deliver new revolutionary ways of learning. The content itself is has to be rich and employs all the media available, so that users can choose what kind of learning materials that are suitable to their needs. In this case the content has to be multimedia in nature. By using multimedia technology very rich and unorthodox learning aids can be delivered to user, and give the users new experience in learning.