A framework for rating synchronous video e-learning applications

Setting up a system to broadcast live lectures on the web is a procedure which on the surface does not require any serious technical skills mainly due to the facilities provided by popular LMS and their plugins. Nevertheless, producing a system of outstanding quality is a multidisciplinary and by no means a straightforward task. This complicatedness may be responsible for the delivery of an overall poor experience to the learners and calls for a formal rating framework that takes into account the diverse aspects of architecture for synchronous video e-learning systems. We discuss the specification of such a framework which at its final stage employs fuzzy logic technique to transform from qualitative to quantitative results.