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Moving from Learning Management Systems to the e-Learning Cloud

The academic world is influenced nowadays by two main opposite factors: the globalization of the economic crisis and the requirement for the universities to have a powerful IT infrastructure, able to host the educational and demanding research activities. Because many universities do not have the possibility to increase their costs for higher education in order to provide the desired infrastructure for the e-learning services, the Cloud Computing platforms could be the best solution for developing highest quality educational activities. Many higher education institutions offer LMS' on Private Clouds, having their own infrastructure and using open-source software, such as Blackboard, Moodle or Claroline. Thus is unavoidable that, after a certain amount of time, resources don't become obsolete or at least insufficient, that the system will be prone to security risks, and students and teachers will desire to involve in the world-wide information exchanges, meaning that a new target will arise: migration to a Community Cloud, or even better, Public Cloud infrastructure. In this paper, we will present the structure and the functionality of e-Learning Cloud concept and the possibility to move the traditional LMS to the cloud computing infrastructure. Also, we propose two options for building a Public Cloud e-Learning in academic environment, the main difference between them being the fact that one is a commercial solution based on IBM technology, and the other is a free alternative based on the Docebo Cloud platform. Migrating university LMS on Cloud nation-wide is a matter that requests government implication for allocating the funds and adapting legislation to this educational approach. Although, the economic situation in the last five years and the pressure from the academic environment to promote equality of chances for all students and increased quality for the learning process will contribute to the adoption of this approach in the future.

Design and Implementation of an Online Teaching and Learning Management System

Fudma Journal of Sciences, 2023

The global education system was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. To stop the coronavirus from spreading, all schools, colleges, and universities were closed. Students, instructors, and parents all experienced challenges while schools were closed. So, distance learning was a solution to continue the education system. Unfortunately, in a developing country, it was challenging to adopt distance learning due lack of network infrastructures, computers, epileptic power supply, and good internet access. In order to circumvent some of these challenges different online platforms were employed. However, they came with some limitations, for example, the freemium subscription scheme, which allows users to use basic features of the system but requires a certain amount on a predefined basis to access extra needed features. In addition, to use video conferencing in some of the existing LMS you are required to leave the app for another app, for example, to use video conferencing in google classroom you are required to use google meetings. This study aims to create an online E-Learning System that provides all in one tool for teachers to develop and administer courses online. The LMS comes with various functions such as creating learning plans, implementing learning processes, and assessing or evaluating learning processes. Our LMS presents instruction through content creation and storage, sees student participation, and assesses student performance online. The Online Learning System was designed using JavaScript (Vue), PHP (server-side programming Language), and NoSQL as the database. The developed system was evaluated by potential users and found to meet predefined user requirements.

Learning Management System 2.0

Handbook of Research on Engaging Digital Natives in Higher Education Settings

The recent adoption of cloud computing, Web 2.0 (web as a platform), and Big Data technologies have become the main driver of the paradigm shift. For higher education, choosing the right platform for a next generation of Learning Management System (LMS) namely LMS 2.0 is becoming more important than choosing a tool in the new paradigm. This chapter discusses factors for higher institution in determining a future direction for its LMS to take advantage of pervasive knowledge management, efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Literature studies have deployed for this study to portray the state of future LMS initiative. We found that the trends of cloud computing and big data will be predominant factor in viewing future LMS adoption and implementation. LMS 2.0 can be a solution to make learning systems in a higher education is flexible in terms of resources adoption, quality of learning, knowledge management, and implementation.

Learning Management Systems, An Overview

Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies, 2020

There can be no doubt that technology has transformed the way education is delivered to people across the globe. We now live in an interconnected world where the traditional concept of formal learning, taking place in a single physical location, is becoming increasingly less relevant. Modern learners are becoming dissatisfied with the stand-and-deliver approach to education that dictates attendance times, learning venues, and modes of participation. The emergence of sophisticated communication technologies and mobile devices has enabled a new generation of information consumers to satisfy their demands for knowledge without the need to meet in a physical location. Software vendors, open-source developers, and educational institutions, cognizant of this development, have embraced systems that can facilitate the management of courses and engagement with students remotely. The technologies that facilitate the provision of courses over long distances are broadly termed “learning management systems” or “LMSs.” Learning management systems can be defined as web-based software platforms that provide an interactive online learning environment and automate the administration, organization, delivery, and reporting of educational content and learner outcomes.

The Future of E-Learning: a Shift to Knowledge Networking and Social Software

International journal of …, 2007

The main aim of Knowledge Management (KM) is to connect people to quality knowledge as well as people to people in order to peak performance. This is also the primary goal of Learning Management (LM). In fact, in the world of e-learning, it is more widely recognised that how learning content is used and distributed by learners might be more important than how it is designed. In the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on social software applications and services as a result of the rapid development of Web 2.0 concepts. In this paper, we argue that LM and KM can be viewed as two sides of the same coin, and explore how Web 2.0 technologies can leverage knowledge sharing and learning and enhance individual performance whereas previous models of LM and KM have failed, and present a social software driven approach to LM and KM.

Social Networking based E-Learning System on Clouds

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2012

With the recent advancements in the modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT), e-Learning has emerged as a new paradigm for learning in the modern world. There are many dimensions such as pedagogical, technological, ethical etc which are to be satisfied by the e-learning service provider to become a better option in compare to the traditional learning techniques. Among all the dimensions, technological and pedagogical dimension are among the critical dimensions, as they address issues concerning content analysis, audience analysis, goal analysis, performance analysis and infrastructural analysis. This paper proposes an E-learning Social networking site which is maintained by Cloud providers. Blending the two technologies, Social networking and Cloud computing, provides a business model for E-learning where construction of e-learning system is entrusted to cloud computing suppliers and social networking helps to improve the teaching quality and content.

Opening Learning Management Systems to personal learning environments

2011

New ICT technologies are continuously introducing changes in the way in which society generates, shares and access information. This is changing what society expects and requires of education. eLearning is acting as a vector of this change, introducing pervasive transformations in and out of the classroom. But with Learning Management Systems (LMS) users have reached a plateau of productivity and stability. At the same time outside the walled garden of the LMS new transformative tools, services and ways of learning are already in use, within the PLE and PLN paradigms. The stability and maturity of the LMS may become yet another resistance factor working against the introduction of innovations. New tools and trends cannot be ignored, and this is the reason why learning platforms should become open and flexible environments. In the course of this article the reasons for this change and how it may be addressed will be discussed, together with a proposal for architecture based on Moodle.

Building Integrated E-Learning Environment Using Cloud Services and Social Networking Sites

Emerging Studies, 2012

Cloud computing technologies, although in their early stages, have managed to change the way applications are going to be developed and accessed. These technologies are aimed at running applications as services over the internet on a flexible infrastructure. Microsoft Office applications, such as Word processing, Excel spreadsheet, Access database and many more can be accessed through the Internet, even though the files and applications are housed in the cloud. Cloud computing provides a low cost solution to academic institutions for their researchers, faculty, and students. This setup provides an additional benefit because all these browser-based applications can also be accessed through mobile devices in addition to being available to a variety of laptop and desktop computers, provided Internet access is available. At the same time, the massive growth of social networking sites (SNS) among today's college students is increasing the number of higher education instructors that are combining distance education delivery with SNS. To take advantage of cloud computing and social networking sites, this chapter presents an integrated solution that provides learners with a comprehensive and feature rich environment for building and utilizing applications and can be used for building a virtual environment both for teaching and learning. The authors present an interactive tool that can be used for science education; they combined various technologies to achieve this goal. The environment and the design proposed can also be used as a platform for exploring and sharing new ideas as well as for designing, modifying, and monitoring educational or course contents. In this design under the same environment the authors also allow integration of different pedagogical approaches to both learning and teaching.

OLMS: Online learning management system for e-learning

In this paper we introduce a learning management system that provides a management system for centralized control of course content. A secure system to record lectures is implemented as a key feature of this application. This feature would be accessed through web camera and mobile recording. These features are mainly designed for e-learning environment. In addition, we integrate a learning management system with a platform for social activities and student assessment analysis is developed. Users Including students, professors, and administrators are able to manage schedules, lectures, assignments, jobs, events, discussions, and research.