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Nowadays, a plethora of learning environments is available through World Wide Web with the intent to cover learners’ and educators’ different needs. However, despite significant progress achieved over the past decades, many educational methodologies still discriminate between learners failing to take into consideration that learners have different cultural background, or they prefer different learning styles, or they face learning difficulties. The e-Hoop learning platform has been developed in order to place focus on individual needs and eliminate social exclusion. E-Hoop introduces a new conceptual framework of education via a unified way to address “differences”. E-Hoop learning platform is a universal, dynamic and adaptable environment which educators can use, modify and expand according to their needs. The platform provides diagnostic tools, which are used in order to evaluate and identify learning preferences and abilities of individual learners (in ways they can learn best, ie auditory, visually), and it delivers educational material in the form of Learning Objects. In this way, learning differences can be eliminated. This paper presents the pedagogical approach of e-Hoop concept and an overview of the e-learning platform.