Analysis of Learning Management Systems by Extracting Effectiveness Factor Wise

Abstract

Various Learning Management (LMS) applications are in use by educational institutions. With increased use of internet individually it has become possible to adopt technology to the needs of teaching and learning. LMSs are evolved as scaling of applications is seen very often successful. Most of the tools have been tried in universities as research initiatives and entered open source market for further improvement where some other tools have turned commercial too. Individual facilitators of courses choose tools for their students to access course structure, material, assessments and announcements. Some educational institutions have a practice of using a common tool for all the courses. If usage of various tools is limited, privilege of learners benefitting from some significant features of outstanding tools will be missed. Choosing proper LMS for the needs of instructor, learners and institution is essential in the context of competitive learning environment. Millennial learners have typical learning styles with diversified needs. Course owners design their courses such that the course outcomes are attained in compliance with the outcome based education. Social media plays vital role in promoting online tools for learning. Research on Facebook as LMS is carried out and found positive results. (Wang, 2011). This papers brings out the experiences of users of different LMSs and analysis factor wise.