A Public Learning Platform for Democratizing Higher Education

ABSTRACT

In this era of globalization, it is easy to share and disseminate knowledge due to the rapid evolution in technology. With the continuous development of IT, possibility of innovative and effective environment for teaching and learning, thus redefining the educational processes has been created. Due to recent COVID-19 situation, e-learning platforms are considered as one of the most effective mediums of delivering education. Specially, we find in Bangladesh even the schools are adopting e-learning platforms. However, our educational institutes are in very early stage of adopting such technologies. The purpose of this paper is to perform detailed analysis and examine the problems of the existing educational system, and to propose a feasible e-learning solution via Government regulated Learning Management System (LMS) that could offer affordable and easy access to higher education. The paper includes the benefits of implementing such a system with respect to the stakeholders involved along with preliminary planning and analysis and ends by acknowledging the limitations of the study.. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.