District 4.0: a self-learning and peer-learning website for students

Students strive for success and never stop trying their best to gain more knowledge day by day. A way of gaining knowledge is attending to lectures, and tutorial classes as scheduled. But there are more than one way that are proved to be more effective to students which are self-learning and peer learning. Thus, this paper explains on the effectiveness of self-learning and peer-learning as the alternative to the conventional way of learning. Peer learning occurs among peers from similar social groupings, who are not professional teachers, helping each other to learn and in doing so, learning themselves. However, it is not easy to find the right and perfect peers. Hence to overcome this problem, an educational website consists of several features including study partner finder, academic videos and notes is created. This paper examines the usefulness of this educational website as it is created to serve as a platform to the students to find their perfect study partner and to reach their alumnus with just few simple clicks. In addition, the website also functions as a one-stop centre for the students to access video lectures, audio books, and lecture notes shared by their peers. Furthermore, this paper also elaborates on how the website can generate revenues from marketing advertisement and YouTube posting. Lastly, this paper proposes recommendations for the website as the way forward.