Fachbereich für Erziehungswissenschaften
LMS
Wintersemester 2008 / 2009
and
Seminar: elearnig or learning?
LCMS
group:
The ships group: LMS and LCMS
1. LMS
1.1 Example LMS
2. LCMS
2.1 Example LCMS
3. sources

LMS
and
LCMS
1. LMS
Learning Management System

Software for:
delivering LMS
and
tracking and LCMS
managing training
is…
So LMS is…
… the technical root of the complex webbased
eLearning infrastructure
…webserver installed software, that supports
initialization and use of learning contents
admini-
including tools for coorperated and admini-
strative tasks

LMS
in simple words: and
LCMS
software that supports a learning person to
administrate the learning process
useful for students and pupils but also
helpful for adult education or business
communication
logging in to a learning platform with name
and password, which than provides different
services

LMS
and
LCMS
Motto:
\"Anytime, any place, any pace access to
administration\"
learning content and administration
Based on:
…a variety of development platforms
open-
…free and open-source models

Functions I: LMS
and
LCMS
communication-
using internet as communication-platform:
learners and teachers can keep contact on
chatrooms,
known sources as chatrooms, forums or
whiteboards independent of time and space
administrating general learning process as a whole or in
parts:
calender,
calender, administrating groupwork,
groupwork,
university calender
announcements, presentations,documents,...

Functions II: LMS
and
LCMS
especially administrating courses through easy way of
assigning documents, problems or contents to those
systematic flow of information
mentioned
most important task: connect all upper
tasks to one available tool for learners
facilitates plenty of things in a learning process,
organized information flow, simplyfies computer-based
computer-
learning and covers administrative tasks

where is LMS used: LMS
and
LCMS
schools and universities next to other
educational establishments
companies:
…handles information flood through
internet/email more easily and organized
…participants work on only one platform ->
problem solving much easier

Example: LMS LMS
and
LCMS
Moodle
over 24 million users
Popular in schools and universities all over
the world
a constructivist and a social constructivist
approach to education
demo.opensourcecms.com/moodle
opensourcecms.com/
demo.opensourcecms.com/moodle

LMS
and
LCMS
2. LCMS
Learning Content Management System
- a further development of the LMS specialised in
content-
the management of elearning content-

LMS
and
The LCMS enables:
LCMS
creating, storing, reusing and managing
elearning content
managing the process of creating, editing,
storing and delivering elearning content
The LCMS provides:
virtual space for student interaction
tools to deliver content

LMS
Components of an LCMS
and
LCMS
content authoring system
administration tools to manage the
authorization of content, users and user groups
centralized repository
dynamic delivery interface to make content
visible for users

LMS
and
When using an LCMS? LCMS
for creating and managing a large amount of
elearning content
for reusing elearning content several times
for using elearning content from different
locations and by different persons
for sharing elearning content with various
users

LMS - LCMS
LMS
and
LCMS

LMS
and
LCMS
Example: LCMS
Atutor
online course management, continuing
professional development for teachers, career
development, and academic research
modules add extra functionality to ATutor
demo.opensourcecms.com/atutor
opensourcecms.com/
Try the demo demo.opensourcecms.com/atutor

LMS
Example: Blog and
LCMS
Also a blog can be used as a learning
management unit
http://newmediaocw wordpress.com/
newmediaocw.
http://newmediaocw.wordpress.com/

LMS
and
LCMS
Sources:
Sources:
www.wikipedia.
www.wikipedia.org
www.e-teaching.
www.e-teaching.org
.e
www.opensourcecms.
www.opensourcecms.com