Fachbereich fr Erziehungswissenschaften Wintersemester 2008 / 2009 Seminar: elearnig or learning?

LMS and LCMS

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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 tracking and managing training

LMS and LCMS

So LMS is is the technical root of the complex webbased eLearning infrastructure webserver installed software, that supports initialization and use of learning contents including tools for coorperated and adminiadministrative tasks

in simple words:

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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 learning content and administration" administration Based on: a variety of development platforms free and openopen-source models

Functions I:
learners and teachers can keep contact on known sources as chatrooms, chatrooms, forums or whiteboards independent of time and space

using internet as communicationcommunication-platform:

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administrating general learning process as a whole or in parts:

calender, calender, administrating groupwork, groupwork, university calender announcements, presentations,documents,...

Functions II:

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

where is LMS used:

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

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Example: LMS

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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 demo.opensourcecms.com/ opensourcecms.com/moodle .com/moodle

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

The LCMS enables:

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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

Components of an LCMS

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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

When using an LCMS?

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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

Example: LCMS

LMS and LCMS

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

Example: Blog

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Also a blog can be used as a learning management unit http://newmediaocw http://newmediaocw. newmediaocw.wordpress.com/ wordpress.com/

Sources: Sources: www. www.wikipedia. wikipedia.org www.e www.e.e-teaching. teaching.org www. www.opensourcecms. opensourcecms.com

LMS and LCMS