Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Beauty of LMS

A learning management system, or more commonly known as LMS, is a software that teachers and lecturer use in order to put out a virtual framework of their course outline. It’s basically a control panel on the guide of the lessons for the teachers to use. These past years, its been recently used to develop, increase and establish a communication process that is independent from other communication processes, like a one-on-one chat with your classmate while everything else is happening.

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To say the least, its been a success for the academe and other educational institutions that the learning management system has been put to use. Its efficiency and effectiveness has become increasingly good over the years, one that may challenge the conventional type of learning perhaps in the next few decades.

The program can do and provide various tasks like giving links to online resources while recording lectures, exercises and other tasks. Video conferences have also boosted its attention to itself thanks to the system. In simple terms, it’s an all in one class where everything works by a click of a mouse. The ability of the program has, by far, pushed distance learning to improve fairly quickly by offering remedial courses and heightening its qualities through integrating audio, video, and other printables.

However, the wave of LMS is fairly slow. Not all learning institutions have one and some of them can’t even afford it. Still, online learning is becoming more rapid in every country in the world. The use of electronic blackboards has been common in some countries like Japan wherein most classes apply both electronic learning while inside a classroom. Although, a lot of students as well as professors prefer the basic type. One may even predict that if technology pushes it reaches further, the physical library, along with its tons of books and papers may turn out to be obsolete by the time virtual learning has become dominant in the modern world.

In my opinion, I think it’s just a matter of time before people begin to recognize the efficiency of electronic learning courses. I think it won’t be a surprise if most young students of today become net savvy.

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