LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

PRESENTED BY : MASHITAH HARIS

SUPERVISOR : MR TJ ISKANDAR

UNIVERSITY TENAGA NASIONALCOLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY• In the early ’90s some Luther Seminary (St. Paul)

faculty members were struggling to retain students who didn’t have the funds or, because of family obligations, couldn’t relocate to attend seminary.

• Tom Walker knew there had to be some kind of tool that would enable people to communicate with each other without being in the same place at the same time.

• Learning management systems (LMS) also sometimes known as Course management systems (CMS) have come a long way since those early days.

DEFINITION

• Learning Management System (or LMS) is a broad term used to describe software tools designed to manage user learning interventions and provide access to online learning services for students, teacher, and administrator.

• A software system, that allows the development and delivery of educational courses using the Internet as a delivery system.

one course --> many learners

LMS PlatformsOpen source

• ATutor Bazaar • Bodington • DoceboLMS • Dokeos e-Learning XHTML

Editor • Fle3 • GaneshaLMS • ILIAS • interact • KEWL.Nextgen • LRN • Moodle • OLAT • Mitechsoft

Commercial

• ANGEL Learning • Apex Learning • Blackboard Inc. • Desire2Learn • eCollege • Learn.com • Meridian KSI • Saba Software • SAP Enterprise Learning

EXAMPLE OF LMS

• Examples of well-known LMS systems are – WebCT: a proprietary company providing

hosting or software for some universities.

Blackboard : Popular learning software provider and ASP portal for education.

Moodle : a free, Open Source software package, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

LEARNING CUBE• Allows you to provide members of your

community with tools to develop, implement and share effectively the available technology to improve their intra and inter-organizations learning process.

• With this centralized method of delivery and tracking of learning process you can save a lot of administrative time and effort to manage your learning community.

FEATURES OF LEARNING CUBE

• Announcement Facility • Notes Facility

• Document Facility • Forum Facility

• Multimedia Gallery • Learning Track Facility

• Links Facility • References Facility

• News Facility • Assignment Facility • Assessment Facility

• Portfolio Management Facility • LearningCube Portal Facility

ANNOUNCEMENT FACILITY

NOTES FACILITY

DOCUMENT FACILITY

FORUM FACILITY

MULTIMEDIA GALLERY FACILITY

LEARNING TRACK FACILITY

ASSIGNMENT FACILITY

ASSESSMENT FACILITY

ROLE OF LMS

• Registration and charging

• Managing the process

• Testing

• Mentoring and monitoring

• User’s function

• Administrator functions

ADVANTAGES OF LMS

• Ability of an LMS to allow you to fully manage and track your own learning.

• Provide support for distance learning.

• Purposefully designed– Mature– Safe and Secure– Ease of Use– Centrally Supported

DISADVANTAGES OF LMS

• Cost – Expensive to create.

• Time required to install necessary hardware, software, course and database.

• Not designed to be stand-alone.

• Need for a LMS Administrator.

USAGE OF LMS IN LOCAL UNIVERSITY

• Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)– a course management system designed to

help lecturers to create an online learning environment.

– This system provides functions such as:-• register courses online • course cataloging • bulletin system • information searching • online quizzes, etc.

USAGE OF LMS IN LOCAL UNIVERSITY (Cont.)

• Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)– LearningCare Learning Management System

• An e-learning application. It is a module within Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) Group Web communication application.

• Allows instructors to create courses and students to access their approach adopted by LearningCare.

• LearningCare provides instructors and students with a complete set of tools to enhance their teaching and learning process.

• The unique feature of LearningCare is that it allows portfolio owners to grant users certain access rights including adding and managing their own items and modifying and removing others’ items.

• Open University Malaysia (OUM)– OUM has developed its own learning portal, known as Learning

Management System (my LMS), since June 2003 to support the various activities of e-learning at the university.

– Applications :• e-mail• learner profiles• Learner Connexxions• Tutor Connexxions• Digital Library.

– myLMS is a comprehensive and flexible e-learning system that enables facilitators and learners to interact in a virtual classroom environment and at the same time allows OUM to track and monitor learning and teaching development among

facilitators and learners

USAGE OF LMS IN LOCAL UNIVERSITY (Cont.)

• Things to consider:– Cost : Some LMS platforms can be very

expensive.

– Course and Assessment : Prepared by lecturers or tutors.

– The system is easy to use for both lecturers and students.

IMPLEMENTING LMS IN UNITEN

IMPLEMENTING LMS IN UNITEN

• Offer Internet Tutorial– give students more personal support.– accompany them through the whole lecture

period.

• Run a Distance Education Program.– For post graduate student or part time

students.

References• http://www.e-learningconsulting.com/products/learning-

management-system.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Learning_management_system• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/

Learning_management_system• http://www.globalstrata.com/services/training/guide-

learning-management-system.pdf• http://216.151.81.21/projects/Rafferty%20LMS.pdf• http://moodle.org/• http://www.oum.edu.my/p5/cgs/index.php?

op=support_services&m=37&page=278• http://www.mitechsoft.com/?pr_content=48

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