The paper focuses on providing an academic context that will help to understand better the concepts of knowledge management and e-learning on a university background. The study investigates the use of e-learning tools within the student learning process on 200 respondents (students) from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. It was based on a survey analyzing in a comparative manner the features and benefits of e-learning versus traditional learning and the outcomes revealed that e-learning should be used in a more frequent and efficient manner as it presents much interest to the students and it can contribute to their research abilities, not only to their final grades for different disciplines.