Mise en place d’un centre E-Learning à l’Université du Burundi

Abstract

An E-Learning center or online education is an internet-based classroom that helps students study independently of their geographic locations and time. It not only helps students but also teachers. Other names for online education are E-Learning, e-schools or distance learning, which differs from traditional face-to-face education as students do not need to travel in a classroom and listen to an instructor talk to them. It is self-directed learning. In Burundi, as elsewhere in the world, the number of schools is not increasing in proportion to the number of young people attending school and, moreover, there is a lack of teachers to instruct these young people. Academic education suffers from the same problems. In addition, academic education is not internationalized: foreigners wishing to do so are obliged to initiate visa application procedures and other formalities in the hope of becoming a member of the academic course. In the perspective of finding the solutions to the problems mentioned, this thesis proposes to set up an online learning center or E-Learning opening the doors of the University of Burundi to nationals and internationals wishing to interact with its academic activities independently of the space and time. To achieve this, we learned about the state of distance learning in French-speaking universities and then we designed the system using a modeling language called UML. To model the system we used relational algebra and implemented the new center using client-side programming languages (HTML, CSS, and JS) and a server-side programming language (PHP). The E-Learning center will allow students and teachers to interact online regardless of space: a teacher can load a course and its description (textual and multimedia) and a student after reading and appreciating the description of the course can enlist to the latter online.