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LMS & LCMS Articles
Course Management Systems (web site with evaluation tools)
The Advantages of Learning Management Systems for the Individual Learner.
Selecting a Learning Management System.
Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning.
Moodle Buzz.
LMS and LCMS: What's the Difference?
What's Important in a Learning Content Management System.
LCMS = LMS + CMS [RLOs].
Getting a Handle on Learning Content Management Systems
ATutor Learning Content Management System
Articles & Web sites
Course Management Systems.
Introduction
This site was built to assist higher education in using a more rational decision making process to review the many options for a course management system.
This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 40 product features.
When considering several products and their features, the number of items to consider quickly adds up. Decision makers cannot do a problem this big in their head. In fact, memory span limits us to consider just 7 to 9 things at once.
Considering these facts, the site allows you to step through a number of processes to consider all the aspects of a course management system.Go to article
The Advantages of Learning Management Systems for the Individual Learner.
By Martin Bean
Introduction
One of the major technological innovations that has taken place in IT learning over the past three to four years has been the emergence of learning management systems. A learning management system (LMS) is an automated system for administering the learning process within an organization.
Recently, the deployment of learning management systems to help develop the human capital of organizations has become mainstream in most successful, large corporations. Most discussions regarding learning management systems have focused on the benefits they deliver to the organization or to managers.
In this article, we are going to look at the power of an LMS to the individual.
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Selecting a Learning Management System.
By Brooke Broadbent
Introduction
Seriously considering taking a dip in the e-learning sea? Need to purchase a learning management system or an LMS, as e-learning insiders call them? Concerned about waves, undercurrents and sharks? Looking for a little help to ensure you don't drown?
An LMS is the 'school' of your e-learning program. When learners log on to study, they use the LMS software, much like students do when they walk through the door of a school. Using an LMS, students select courses, receive content, complete exercises, quizzes, and communicate with instructors and other students.
Instructors, administrators and managers monitor student participation through records contained in an LMS.
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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning
By George Siemens
This article is an antidote against herd mentality. It offers a healthy diverging view from the rest of the articles and sites listed in this section. Gray Harriman.
Introduction
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are often viewed as being the starting point (or critical component) of any elearning or blended learning program. This perspective is valid from a management and control standpoint, but antithetical to the way in which most people learn today.
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Moodle Buzz.
By Moodle
Introduction
This page contains links to known reviews, papers and listings around the web where Moodle has been mentioned.
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LMS and LCMS: What's the Difference?
By Leonard Greenberg
Introduction
If you’re confused about the differences between a learning management system (LMS) and a learning content management system (LCMS), you’re not alone. Not only are the names similar, some suppliers are positioning LCMSs as the new wave of LMSs. In fact, an LMS and an LCMS are complementary but very different systems that serve different masters and address unique business challenges.
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What's Important in a Learning Content Management System.
By Michael Feldstein
Introduction
As trainers and other educators suddenly find themselves evaluating expensive and complex server-side software—software in a functionality category that didn't even exist two years ago—it's hard to know what's what. To begin with, evaluating enterprise-class applications is inherently hard. Even the IT professionals aren't always very good at it.
To make matters worse, the tools are constantly evolving and previously distinct software categories are merging as vendors rush to cram every feature imaginable into their offerings in an effort to stand out in the crowd. This article is my attempt to help you sort through at least some of the noise by helping you to answer one important question: What do you really need?
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LCMS = LMS + CMS [RLOs]
By Maish Nichani
Introduction
Going by the current buzz in the industry, a pattern seems to be emerging that follows the above equation. Before we discuss what this means to the learner, or the instructional designer, let us first try to understand this equation.
To make it simple, I am going to treat this more from the content side, and less from the management side.
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Getting a Handle on Learning Content Management Systems.
By David A. Williams
Introduction
BODIES ALONE do not determine the value of human capital. It is the combination of the information that employees possess, their ability to act appropriately on that information, and their ability and willingness to share it with the rest of the organization that determines its value.
A company's competitiveness is largely determined by the quality of its people, the quality of their information and how tightly the two are linked.
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ATutor Learning Content Management System.
Introduction
ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind.
Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, and develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look.
Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment.
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