Dear Zameer,
I believe that the major concern with LMS is the lack of flexibility through what is know as the One-Size-Fits-All course production. Trying to add flexibility and adaptability is a major concern. Moreover the use and availability of social media is making a challenge for the presence and use of LMS .
Hi - It depends on the LMS (sorry - not trying to be cute!). If you are using an on-premise LMS then you will need to look at how the end users want to see frequency of reporting and set up the reporting server to meet those needs (or reset expectations). You also need do do an assessment of how the content would be delivered - flash, SCORM or other new technologies each have some considerations. One example from my experience is that my end users "thought" they could use "duration time" to assess how long a learner was taking a course. The problem was that once the course launched the LMS released the contact information and did not track the time on the content server. The LMS to my knowledge is usually content agnostic BUT if you are looking at an LMS/LCMS package - you will run into other issues.
Sir (Dr.Nasim Mattar ) , Are you trying to say flexibility as far as Courses are concerned and adaptability in terms of Students or Faculty.
Hello, Zameer. I was a Blackboard administrator for almost 10 years at a mid-size college here in Costa Rica. I am now using Moodle for a different institution. One thing I can say is that you have to pay attention to course creation, student enrolment, and instructor assignments to courses. When you go out in search of an LMS, it is important to take this into consideration. Whether you can integate the LMS with the institutional information systems in order to create courses automatically from the academic offering; create faculty usernames and assign them to their respective courses; and to automatically enrol students in their course sections.
If your institution is relatively small (let's say under 300 students or so) you can enrol students with data base files using a "batch" matriculation process. But if your institution manages hundreds or thousands of courses and students, you will need to find out the possibility of integrating the LMS with automated processes.
Good luck,
Edgar Salgado
Sir , Edgar Salgado thanks a lot for this informative post , it really opened my eyes. Sir can you put some light on LO problems as far as LMS is concerned
You can see my paper in this issue, may this help you
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268416704_Current_Trends_and_Challenges_of_Developing_and_Evaluating_Learning_Management_Systems
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Hi Zameer,
I encourage you to read the work of Peggy Ertmer who identified first and second order technology issues; both of which apply to LMS. First order barriers mainly relate to hardware / software issues and are reasonably easily solved (financial considerations aside). Second order barriers relate to warmware - i.e. the people who use or do not use the systems. These are more difficult to resolve as people are much harder to change than hardware and software. Hope this helps, Kevin.
Ertmer, P. A. (1999). Addressing first- and second-order barriers to change: Strategies for technology integration. Educational Technology, Research and Development, 47(4), 47-61.
http://www.springerlink.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/content/c208142h3447u613/fulltext.pdf
Dear Kevin
Really informative , even i got some hints form your post also.
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