Learning Management Systems (LMS) manages learners rather than just the courses the learner will take. Learners would be in different positions, age groups, and structural levels. The LMS will be able to provide learning to each user because the LMS will assess and use the skill level of each user to build and deliver the course content that the student/user needs rather than have broad courses and curriculum that is not specific to the user.
Course Management Systems (CMS) manage courses or classes used for education such as at Full Sail University. The school is already established and the student is added to a database and the student’s courses are delivered to the student through online access. CMS is able to integrate grading, registration, library resources, plagiarism checker, etc for each student after a student has been registered. CMS are not individualized for learners.
Learning Course Management Systems (LCMS) is a combination of LMS and CMS that was designed to be used by the military because of the size of its organization, and was created to bring individualized learning functionality to content/course management. Large educational institutions also benefit from LCMS by bringing courses to their registered students with individualized information to facilitate on a user level. FSO is a perfect example in that all students in EDMT receive the same course content on the dashboard, however, each is able to work at his or her pace in whatever order and the dashboard updates according to that student’s use.
Personal Learning Environments (PLE) are systems established to facilitate the learner’s control of his or her own learning space and goals. This system could be large or small, a place or a course, provided by both the learner and the institution of learning. The user would be in charge of creating an environment conducive to meeting his or her learning such as in a quiet study environment with the appropriate materials, such as notebooks, computer, etc. The educational institution would be responsible for creating an environment that facilitates the user’s learning such as learning course management systems (LCMS) that provide resource materials, textbooks, assessments, and grading.
PLE and LCMS are the type of educational tools we presently use at Full Sail University.
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