The document provides an introduction to e-learning and learning management systems, highlighting various definitions and technologies related to e-learning. It discusses the transition from e-learning 1.0 to 2.0, emphasizing the shift from teacher-led to learner-centered approaches and the role of web 2.0 technologies in enhancing learning experiences. Additionally, it details features and activities available in Moodle as a learning management system.

1. Introduction to e-Learning &
Learning Management System
K. Sarveswaran
Department of Computer Science,
University of Jaffna.
iamsarves@gmail.com

2. Do not train a child to learn by
force or harshness; but
direct them to it by what amuses their minds,
so that you may be better able to
discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of
each.

3. Learning outcomes
• Define the term e-Learning
• Review different terms associated with eLearning
• Describe Web 2.0 technologies
• Use Web 2.0 technologies in Teaching and
Learning
• Analyse the importance of e-Learning
• Define the concept blended learning
• Define what is Learning Management System

4. Media for Education

5. E-Learning

6. Electronic Learning
• E-Learning
• Multimedia learning
• Technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
• Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
• Computer-Based Training (CBT)
• Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)
• Internet-Based Training (IBT)
• Web-Based Training (WBT)
• Online education
• Virtual education
• Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
• M-Learning …

7. Electronic Learning
• Related terms:
– Open and Distance Learning
– Blended Learning

8. Electronic Media

9. Web
• World Wide Web!
– August 7, 1991

10. Web
Web 1.0
Read only web
&
Web 2.0
Read and Write web

11. Web 2.0 – Characteristics – 1/2
• User-centered Design:
– A web design created in a way that it fulfills every
possible need of the end user and empowers the user
to perform certain customizations within the design.
• Crowd-sourcing :
– Every small unit of contribution is important to a Web
2.0 service. Millions of such contributions eventually
lead the website to state of higher relevance
• Web as Platform:
– Web 2.0 services do not require a client download
condition, nor is the dependency on a particular OS
for accessing the web services

12. Web 2.0 – Characteristics – 2/2
• Collaboration :
– develop content by collaborative participating rather than
depending on the publisher
• Power Decentralisation :
– Web 2.0 services follow a self-service model rather than
being a administrator dependent
• Dynamic Content :
– Web 2.0 services have to be highly dynamic and proactive.
• Rich User Experience :
– Use of various technologies (e.g. XHTML,CSS 2.0,Ajax,flex
etc) have potentially helped making web services lighter,
faster, less cluttered and also more appealing to the end
user

13. Web 2.0 and E-Learning 2.0

14. E-Learning 1.0 -> E-Learning 2.0
-Paradigm Shift-
E-Learning 1.0
and
E-Learning 2.0
– Teacher becomes facilitator
– Learners need more commitments
– Social learning

15. Activity
• Choose THREE web 2.0 tools and explore how
those could be used in Teaching/Learning
• Please record your views here:
tinyurl.com/web2-tl

16. Why e-Learning?

17. 1. Knowledge retention
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18. 2. Knowledge retention

19. 3. Multiple Intelligences
edel518.wikispaces.com
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

20. 4. Common Interests – 1/2
• 1.9 Billion mobile active users
• Every 60 seconds on Facebook:
– 510 comments are posted
– 293,000 statuses are updated
– 136,000 photos are uploaded
• 50% of 18-24 year-olds go on Facebook when
they wake up

21. 4. Common Interests – 2/2

22. 5. Digital natives – 1/2
-Hole in a wall-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugata_Mitra

23. 5. Digital natives – 2/2
-Self-Organised Learning-
• Tamil- speaking children in a remote Indian
village learn basic molecular biology in
English on their own using Computers
– Sugata Mitra and Ritu Dangwal, British Journal of
Educational Technology, Vol. 41 No 5, 2010.

24. 6. Personalized Learning – 1/2
-Benjamin Bloom’s the 2 Sigma problem-
• “The average tutored student was above 98% of the
students in the control class”
• “About 90% of the tutored students attained the level
of summative achievement reached by only the highest
20% of the control class”
• Personalization is defined as differentiating instruction
and providing regular corrective feedback based on the
needs of each student. This included personalizing
both path and pace
– identifying and addressing missing prerequisite
knowledge, and spending more time where necessary to
ensure students achieved mastery of topics before moving
on.
http://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf

25. 6. Personalized Learning – 2/2
http://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf

26. 6. Trends

27. “Where my reason, imagination or
interest were not engaged,
I would not or I could not learn."

28. Blended Learning
Link on youtube :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwTA5RA9eU

29. Learning Management System
• LMS is a software application that automates
the administration, tracking, and reporting of
training events.
– course, content, learning facilitation, user, role
– assessment, feedback, class room management
– reporting

30. Learning Management System
• Main frame based LMS
• TV network based LMS
• CD based
• CD network based
• Web based!
• Web 2.0 based!

31. Moodle
• Web 2.0 and E-Learning 2.0
• Based on Social Constructionism:
– all of us are potential teachers as well as learners - in a true
collaborative environment we are both
– we learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing
something for others to see
– we learn a lot by just observing the activity of our peers
– by understanding the contexts of others, we can teach in a more
transformational way
– a learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so
that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants
within it.
http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Pedagogy

32. Activities in Moodle
• Assignments:
– Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files
and assignments created on and off line
• Chat:
– Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion
• Choice:
– A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple
responses
• Database:
– Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of
record entries
• Feedback:
– For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
• Forum:
– Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions

33. Activities in Moodle
• Glossary:
– Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a
dictionary
• Lesson:
– For delivering content in flexible ways
• Quiz:
– Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be
automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown
• SCORM:
– Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content
• Survey:
– For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their
class and reflect on their own teaching
• Wiki:
– A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit
• Workshop:
– Enables peer assessment

34. K. Sarveswaran
iamsarves@gmail.com