LRNT523 Unit 3 Assignment 2
Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been part of mainstream adoption for the past decade by many higher education institutions and organizations with professional industry training. A decade may not seem that long, however the build up to what we know LMSs to be today goes way back in time.
Looking back in history, 1906 University of Wisconsin established the first distance learning institution in the world education scenario. Fast forwarding a half century later to 1960 University of Illinois developed PLATO – Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations.
LMSs have evolved spanning the divide in the space of Proprietary LMS to Open Source LMS to Cloud Based LMS. Consumers continue to push the limits for more added functionality, users now see content creation, communication, assessment and administration as table stakes. The future of making it learning more convenient and easier, alongside personalized learning, social media, and portability continues to edge us forward in the upcoming decade and LMS 2.0.
As part one of assignment 2, I’ve been tasked to review several papers on the topic of LMS evolution, select 5 articles and provide a quick overview on the following areas: concept, main thesis, evidence, key points and critique.
Below you will find my annotations on the LMS evolution. Stay tuned for part two of my annotated bibliography assignment which will have a full synthesis of these 5 readings.
Dorothy Sidhu LRNT523 Assignment 2 – Annotated Bibliography Part ONE
As a continuation to assignment 2 below is part 2 of my assignment. Please see my attached assignment synthesizing my findings.
Hi Dorothy,
Great topic, I look forward to reading your synthesis on the evolution of LMS as I am intrigued about the progression of Learning Management Systems. For assignment one, I chose Martin Dougiamas as a person of interest because of his contribution to distance learning and the creation of Moodle. Can’t wait to read your synthesis.
Cheers
Phyz
Thanks Phyz. I’ve been intrigued myself with LMSs as I’ve been part of project teams when we had no LMS in our organization, to completing RFPs and implementing … and have seen that evolution first hand in my past organizations. It was interesting as one of the articles eluded to that the LMS can be so robust and capable of doing so much, yet the frustrations of faculty was they were not trained on how to use it beyond the basics. I would agree that most systems like LMS have such massive capabilities (if you purchase the high end robust ones) yet the organization typically isn’t ready to switch everything on as it is so foreign and unfamiliar.