Learning
management system is emerging as a potential delivery medium for education and
training. This is evident from the increasing number of education institutions
and organizations adopting e-learning. A good learning management system
provides lot of functionalities which can be used to gain in multiple aspects:
classroom tracking using web-based learning, management reports to track real
time student performance, online collaboration tools, including forums,
chat-rooms, and e-mail tutor, flexible structure that allows cross-culture
knowledge transfer, user-friendly interface for novice etc.
How Learning Management System
Works in Educational Institutions?
Learning
management system works as central repositories to address all type of
educational needs. The major areas addressed by learning management system
deployment are curriculum planning, instant evaluation, learner engagement and
content management.
Curriculum Planning:
The word curriculum planning means what courses of study to teach and within a
specified course what topic to teach in a particular semester/year in a college
system. Generally, faculties of technical education are involved in curriculum
planning and are done by making a course plan and lecture schedule before
starting the course work. Course plan is detailed structure of course clearly
stating chapter description and reading resource and lecture schedule states
total number of lecture hours required for completion of course and amount of
course coverage in a particular class.
Instant Evaluation:
All learning management system supports instant evaluation for multiple choice
questions asked during test/exam. As soon as student click submit button, all
multiple choice questions are evaluated simultaneously and grading is displayed
on screen. This tool is helpful in removing students result anxiety. As result
is shown without time delay, student gets more time for their improvement and
using learning management system universities can increase frequency of
conducting test/exam in a semester.
Content Management:
Course content management is a serious issue for faculties as well as students.
Many faculties repeat same course in consequent semester/year. So, there is need
for teaching resource management and for this learning
management system provides unique login ID to create, manage and store
contents for future use. Similarly, for students during placement they need
revision of class notes. As, they are generally in last semester/year of study,
managing notes of first year seems impossible. Here also learning management
system provides a tool to store all previous notes.
Learner Management:
Learner management means engaging today’s students for academic success.
Students learn more in a group as they imitate behavior of other students from
different cultural backgrounds. This also helps in building strong student
relationship like getting to know each other, building strong teams, effective
communication, and so on. Learning management system support several tools for
collaborative learning like chats, messages, forum, wiki etc. where students
learn easily topics which they found difficult in offline mode of learning.
Hence,
it can be concluded that the better and earlier learning management system is
implemented among every educational institutions the sooner we’ll be able to
see a drastic change in students’ learning performance.
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