A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY FOR LEARNERS INTEGRATION

1Japheth B.R. and 2Spencer .P.
1Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Niger Delta University, Yenagoa, Nigeria
2Department of Computer Science, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
E-mail: jbunakiye@yahoo.com, pakaye_kirime@yahoo.co.uk

ABSTRACT

The goal of learning in the midst of individuals and groups with mixed potentials is performance. It is evident that learning is most effective when it is done in an integrated platform. Learning analysts encourage this integration but don’t always offer practical strategies to make it happen. This paper attempts to begin to truly reduce the gap that slows down enterprise training and find ways
to bring learning to an online community where interaction is never physical.The system works with computers connected to the network from different ends coupled with a viable database that can store users’ information. The system has an archive that keeps record of user logs, message received, friend request and friends that have been added to the friend list. The system is also made of two users which involve the administrator and the client (the client consist of both the student and lecturers), where the administrator has a full right to the system and the clients have limited rights to the system, and this is made possible using HTML tags and java scripts for the front end (client side), PHP scripts for the
server side scripts, and MYSQL for the database design.