Social Learning Environment based on Social Learning Graphs Formalism

This paper presents a social learning application meant to bring students, teachers, courses and study groups all in one safe place for a university. It is focused on academic communication, successful support-based relationships between students and teachers, meeting colleagues, active and efficient participation in study groups and ease of information retrieval. This social learning environment is based on the social learning graphs formalism. For the implementation of the social network Neo4j has been used, the leader in graph databases management. The implementation of the WEB-based application is done in Java with Spring framework. This social learning environment has been created in order to complete the e-learning process in the University of Craiova that uses the private e-learning platforms: Tesys and MedLearn.