Learning Management Systems and the integration with social media services: a case study

摘要

The paper presents the experience of the author in designing, implementing and managing technology-enhanced learning settings of different nature, from high-school students to University students, to professional participants to blended courses and finally to public servants changing their traditional way of having life-long learning sessions. The common factor is a virtual community platform, called "Online Communities", that has been created from scratch in 1998 with the primordial idea of virtual communities and social interaction among different participants with different roles. In the paper, the role of social media-related services in the platform will be presented, together with some practical results derived from the comparison between educational services provided by social media, and social media services provided by e-Learning platform.