A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, a...
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
"A robust LMS should be able to do the following:
- Centralize and automate administration
- Use self-service and self-guided services
- Assemble and deliver learning content rapidly
- Consolidate training initiatives on a scalable web-based platform
- Support portability and standards
- Personalize content and enable knowledge reuse
One should be able to use LMS for hosting
- Pre-recorded content in text, picture, and multimedia.
- Interactive contents like flash, SCORM
- Live classroom or pre-recorded classroom
LMS should help the educators with
- Assessing the student/end users
- Taking feed backs
- Letting them submit and share their work
- Collaborate with the peers
- Track student progress
- Generate reports
LMS should have following to help the students/learners
- Institutive design and easy navigation
- Preferably built on web 2.0 (e-learning 2.0)
- Supports application integration with other content management applications
- Access from different mobile devices"
I would also add that it should be safe, keeping students' work private.
An effective LMS is really central to a good ICT in education strategy. Given the many constraints in my part of the world - and Funding is by no means least - it would be interesting to know if any particular LMS would be a good solution for our context.