Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Use of LMS(Learning Management System) in Educational Data Mining

Learning management systems have made the life simpler by managing a centralized accessibility of all the requirements of an instructor, student and content management. Some of well known Learning Management System include Moodle, Sakai, WebCT, WhiteBoard, Brihaspati-3. The main aim of building a LMS is to achieve a collabrative learning atmosphere, where students can exchange there ideas, share resources and instructors can create content for the students and post at a centralized repository for the content to be available in a well organized way. some of basic qualities of a Learning Management System includes the following:

1. Course Management -course enrollment, course updates, curriculum design, types of Assignments.

2. Content Management- content design, type of content, wiki, discussion forum, groups, chats, hot potato, organize content repositories.

3. Student Management-student enrollments, profiles, student learning tools, blogs.

4. Grading and Evaluation Management- rubrics, assessment tools, grading reports, monitoring of student response, maintenance of student database repositories.

4. Institute and Administration Management- Institute authorization, institute administration, resource monitoring, database backups, recovery and restoration of content.

These are some of major functionalities most of the Learning Management system possess. So, rather than setting up individual systems for each and every functionality, all of them can be managed very well under a central repository through LMS.

2 comments:

  1. Welcome in the world of bloging. Writing good :)

    I think there are many more functionality that a LMS should have. Institute and Administration management should be out of the scope of a LMS. A LMS should not manage fees collection, roll no. providing, etc.

    The major problem that i see in all these LMS is the usability and look & feel, ultimately youths are going to use these LMS & youth may ignore these tools because they are not looking good and not user friendly.

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  2. Thanks for your comment. Yes there are several other features to blog, in the upcoming editions.

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