Connect: A Secure Approach for Collaborative Learning by Building a Social Media Platform

Nowadays, social networking has become a vital part of human lives. It has become a crucial part since people spend more time on such platforms. Technologies are advancing education, using a variety of resources and delivery methods, and without the restriction for time, space, and location. This platform consists of channels for communication and collaborative learning. Many researchers are working to make use of technology to build applications for collaborative learning using a platform similar to social media. This research proposes to build a platform for faculty-to-faculty connection for collaborative learning to acquire more benefits in terms of sharing research domains, sharing knowledge, and improving teaching skills, by connecting with experts in that domain. To build this architecture, a review of various social media platforms with algorithms used for providing security and privacy has been carried out. Privacy concerns are important part of the study; hence, this architecture is used as an online social network platform; an encryption algorithm is used.