At the recent e-learning conference at the Berlin School of Economics and Law we discussed new ways of e-Learning and how future LMS have to be designed to involve students to ensure effective e-learning. It soon became clear that popular social networks accomplish a degree of participation that any LMS can only dream of. “Yeah, well because it is not a learning platform.” True, however these networks are often used by students to coordinate group work, share files and solve problems that evolve in daily university life. We agreed in our workshop that a social network used for e-learning is...