3. • 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.
• Learning management systems (LMS) also
sometimes known as Course management systems
(CMS) have come a long way since those early days.
DEFINITION
4. 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.
5. ROLE OF LMS
• Registration and charging
• Managing the process
• Testing
• Mentoring and monitoring
• User’s function
• Administrator functions
6. 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
7. 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.
9. •A learning object repository is an online library
for storing,managing and sharing your learning
resources.
•A learning object can be quiz,a presentation,an
image, a video,or any other kind or document or
file you use to create course content and learning
materials for online learning
10. •You can classify learning objects according
to defined learning standards or goals
•When you publish your learning object to
learning repository, you tag those objects
with metadata to classify and organize your
learning objects and make them easily
searchable for others
11. • The learning object repositories must meet the needs
of insructors, designers, and learners. They are the
first and most important charecteristic in this
selection.
• Learning objects should be able to be easily accessed
at the exact moment that the design need or learning
activity calls for it.
• Content compatibility is another critical
characteristic.repositories created for specific topic
areas or disciplines shoulb be matched with that
content.
Characteristics of LOR
12. • The ease of the repository for sharing information
with others
• The capasity for collaboration the capasity for reuse
of the learning objectss
• Context sensitivity
• Coding and retrieval
13. • Editing,combining and repursing.
• There is the case of accessibility for instructors and
learners with diverse and special needs.