In order to move forward in education, it is important to understand current circumstances, recognize problems, and assess the instructional needs of students and teachers.
In 2004, Colleen Carmean, Ali Jafari, and Patrica McGee worked with experts to identify and develop end-user needs of a course management system (CMS). They completed this multiple case study on teaching and learning environments by assessing what was working in CMS and focusing on ways to improve current practices and...
Sometimes, I wonder if the creators of Course Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) understand that to devise a system that will truly reach proper functionality, there is a need to work backwards from the user's point of reference. Only then will the system provide the desired effect and learning. It is only the user that can decide if the type of learning works for him or her as he or she is the one that will succeed or fail at learning what the system is trying to teach him or her. That is what makes these systems difficult to create because the needs and ideas of the user must come first yet the system must be broad enough to reach many types of learners.
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