Web – based distributed learning management system

1. Web – based distributed learning management system Prof., Dr. hab. Yuriy Rashkevych, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine, Phone: +380322 744143, Fax: +380322 744143, rashkev@polynet.lviv.ua Dr. Dmytro Peleshko, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine, Phone: +38032 2582228, peleshko@polynet.lviv.ua

2. Information distribution, publication included; Communication between teachers and students and among students themselves; Organizing the work of students in groups - co-discussions, co-projects etc; Organizing the information and resources search – search engines, multimedia databases etc; Learning process specific needs - interactive consulting, tasks for self-dependent work, tests, video-conferences within the lectures; and Integrated system of organizing and carrying out the teaching process – management system created with the use of web-technologies. flexibility in place of receiving education – possibility to learn partially outside the main university campus; flexibility of educational programmes - the possibility of choosing certain subject due to previous educational and job experiences; flexibility of cooperation ways during studies – not all students should work in groups, not all of them should stay together while performing a task; flexibility in communication forms within the educational subject – students and teachers apart from the conventional and traditional face to face way of communication should have other ways; and flexibility in choosing the art of studies and methodological materials – extension of the access to information means. ICT in teaching process Flexibility of educational programmes The main spheres of ICT Web – based distributed learning management system

3. The main components of LMS Web – based distributed learning management system

4. Scheme of LMS logical structure Web – based distributed learning management system

5. The main tasks of the system • learning process and sub-department management simplifying (computer automation ); • widening the learning process possibilities through embedding multimedia and simulation options for presenting information; • simplifying the teacher work from the point of the learning process management through automated results summed up by month/semester/ academic year and from the point of giving the lessons, providing all the students with teaching left outs conducting the teaching process on the basis of made and known in advance curriculum etc; and • providing the sub-department advertisement and marketing. Web – based distributed learning management system

6. The software products have been used while creating LMS • Operational system Microsoft Server 2000; • Database server: Microsoft SQL Server 2000; • Web server: MS Internet Information Server 5.0; and • Technologies, programming languages and protocols: HTML, ASP, Active X, e directory, VBscript, Javascript, sQL, SSL, HTTPS. Web – based distributed learning management system

7. Screen-shorts of LMS Screen-short of registration Screen-short of Learning plan Web – based distributed learning management system

8. Screen-shorts of LMS Screen-short of roster Screen-short of student workplace Web – based distributed learning management system

9. To the problems of the system implementation • Existing stereotype concerning lections and practical works; • Complexity of starting using the system. Here the necessity of carrying out special trainings for the teachers computer illiterate and costs of bringing the courses into the electronic form should be referred; • Complexity of carrying out all the kinds of control except control based on current text; and • Providing the students with the technical conditions for self-dependent work. Web – based distributed learning management system

10. To the main advantages • Possibility of bringing various volumes of information to the user; • Production and development of self-dependent skills; • Bringing the learning process forum static to dynamic, it means the possibility of quick input of new material and new methodological papers at once for all for all students and the possibility to apply the new approaches to presenting the information; • Principle securing: studying anywhere and any time; and • Possibility of extending the system. Web – based distributed learning management system