LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

1. UNIVERSITY TENAGA NASIONALCOLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) PRESENTED BY : MASHITAH HARIS SUPERVISOR : MR TJ ISKANDAR

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. one course --> many learners

5. Open 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 LMS Platforms

6. EXAMPLE OF LMS • Examples of well-known LMS systems are • WebCT: a proprietary company providing hosting or software for some universities.

7. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. ANNOUNCEMENT FACILITY

12. NOTES FACILITY

13. DOCUMENT FACILITY

14. FORUM FACILITY

15. MULTIMEDIA GALLERY FACILITY

16. LEARNING TRACK FACILITY

17. ASSIGNMENT FACILITY

18. ASSESSMENT FACILITY

20. ROLE OF LMS • Registration and charging • Managing the process • Testing • Mentoring and monitoring • User’s function • Administrator functions

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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.

25. 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.

27. USAGE OF LMS IN LOCAL UNIVERSITY (Cont.) • 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

29. IMPLEMENTING LMS IN UNITEN • 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.

30. 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.

31. 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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