Arts education and research needs go beyond the current capabilities of conventional learning environments since they are too closed, limiting students' abilities to create, communicate and collaborate. Its vertical organization requires one person to be responsible for all available content, as well as monitoring of all students and their actions on the platforms, thereby removing freedom of thought and expression.

If learning environments, like Moodle, allowed students to work collaboratively, sharing knowledge on certain topics, research results and even work they developed, it would be possible to develop critical skills by evaluating the work done by other students. The problem involves restructuring the learning model in which current learning environments are based, and establishing a direct link between education and technology.

The main weaknesses of closed learning environments could be amended with the implementation of an environment where students are allowed to share their knowledge complementarily with teachers, being the shared contents editable by both parts. Moreover, such solution should allow participants to share different multimedia contents such as images, video and even sound samples. Other interesting approach is to integrate video call in the platform. This way students that could not be present would still be able to attend classes and even share and access content being taught, all in the same place.

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