There are various theories about different learning styles. Based on social learning theory and group learning could improve learning process. At present and with distance learning, group communication decreased and as a result, the benefits of social learning are decreased. Social media is a set of tools for information dissemination and expanding collaborating activities. The main goal of social media is freedom in knowledge, information and opinion propagation and converting content customers to content consumers. Social media idea refers to 1999 and creating "open diary" site by some authors. For the optimal use of these tools, suitable technologies were needed and this caused creating 'Web 2.0' technology at 2005. The base of this technology is user generated content. The possibility of content generating motivates personal knowledge dissemination and collaborative content creation and results in more group activities. As a usage of social media universities education could be mentioned. At present, different learning management system are used for virtual education management at electronic education centers and educational information management systems are used for presenting educational services. Implementing social media in these systems, cause extending group activities. In this thesis, after clarifying the benefits of implementing social learning in virtual education by the usage of social media, approaches for using social media for social learning in virtual education were suggested.Open source LMS that supports some kind of social media tools are reviewed. The ATutor LMS is suggested that contains social network and also supports Unicode for managing virtual education, To overcome the weakness of notification by distance "Social research and educational bulletin board" design is presented. This board is a special social news site that causes students, staffs and teachers view reaearch and educational that causes encouragement in learning in addition to information sending through the web site. Keywords : Social Media, Social learning, Social Constructivism, Social Network, "Social research and educational bulletin board", Learning Management System (LMS), User Generated Content (UGC)
