Enhancement of e-learning system by using social network features

E-learning is mostly used in university nowadays to manage information and knowledge, but the presences of the system does not guarantee that the people in the university used the system at the optimal way. e-learning that are used in the organization is found to be lack of knowledge sharing elements. Instead of using e-learning, user tends to choose other alternatives site like social network to share knowledge. The purpose of this study is to analyze the knowledge sharing barriers in the e-learning. The barriers found are willingness to share, changing organization culture, social relationship, features is difficult to use, limited functions, the representation of features are not interesting, limited user access and knowledge evaluation. However, social network are found to have a strong relationship with knowledge sharing and its features are useful in solving the technology barriers. From the identified barriers, the features of social network are analyzed and enhancements of e-learning in terms of knowledge sharing are proposed.