E-learning and management information systems for E-universities

During our work as supervisors in Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences in Mansoura University, Egypt, we were really frustrated with the number of graduation projects entitled or include “E-Learning ” leading to the spread of a type of E-Learning graduation projects that focuses on the managerial aspects of the “University”, and abstracting the learning process in the uploading of presentations to be available for students later after lectures. In our attempt to clarify this confusion, we thought about surveying a prototypical E-Learning model and presenting one of the University Management Information Systems model, hopefully presenting them side-by-side will help clarifying the confusion by presenting differences. The main objective of this paper is to clarify the difference between E-Learning and the University Management Information Systems and overcome this confusion.