Learning

Environment

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LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Learning environment

Is a learning environment where learning takes place. In the e-learning is

used to refer to a particular software system using the institutions to

create a shared virtual space for learning.

Software systems that support teaching and learning

Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)

Content Management Systems for Learning

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

(LCMS)

Virtual Learning Environment

A virtual learning environment (VLE), or learning platform, is an e-

learning education system based on the web that models

conventional in-person education by providingequivalent virtual access to classes, class content, tests, homework,

grades, assessments, and other external resources such as

academic or museum website links. It is also a social space where

students and teacher can interact through threaded discussions or

chat. It typically uses Web 2.0 tools for 2-way interaction, and

includes a content management system.

Virtual learning environment

Virtual learning environments are the basic components ofcontemporary distance learning, but can also be integrated with aphysical learning environment[1] which may be referred toas blended learning.

Virtual learning can take place synchronously or asynchronously. Insynchronous systems, participants meet in “real time”, and teachersconduct live classes in virtual classrooms. Students cancommunicate through a microphone, chat rights, or by writing onthe board.

In asynchronous learning, which is sometimes called “self-paced”learning, students are expected to complete lessons andassignments independently through the system. Asynchronouscourses have deadlines just as synchronous courses do, but eachstudent is learning at his own pace.

Virtual learning environment

A virtual learning environment can also include students and teachers

“meeting” online through a synchronous web-based application.

The teacher is able to present lessons through video, PowerPoint, or

chatting. The students are able to talk with other students and the

teacher, as well as collaborate with each other, answer questions, or

pose questions. They can use the tools available through the

application to virtually raise their hand, send messages, or answer

questions on the screen given by the teacher or student presenter.

In other words or in short we can say that a virtual learning environment

or VLE is a set or medium of learning and teaching tools that can help

students get to gain knowledge through a computer or the internet.

Content management system

A content management system (CMS)[1][2][3] is a computer

application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content,

organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a centralinterface.[4] Such systems of content management provide

procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative

environment.[5] These procedures can be manual steps or an

automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late

1990s.

CMSs are often used to run websites containing blogs, news,

and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs.

CMSs typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, but maysupport it for specific elements or entire pages.

Content management system

The function and use of content management systems is to storeand organize files, and provide version-controlled access to theirdata. CMS features vary widely. Simple systems showcase a handfulof features, while other releases, notably enterprise systems, offermore complex and powerful functions. Most CMSs include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control (versioncontrol), indexing, search, and retrieval. The CMS increments theversion number when new updates are added to an already-existing file. Some content management systems also supportthe separation of content and presentation.

A CMS may serve as a central repository containing documents,movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data. CMSs can be usedfor storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching andpublishing documentation.

Learning management system

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for

the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery

of e-learning education courses or training programs.[1]

LMSs range from systems for managing training and educational

records to software for distributing online or blended/hybrid college

courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration.

Colleges and universities use LMSs to deliver online courses and

augment on-campus courses. Corporate training departments use

LMSs to deliver online training, as well as to automate record-

keeping and employee registration

Learning management system

The key to understanding the difference between LMS and other

computer education terms is to understand the systemic nature of

LMS. LMS is the framework that handles all aspects of the learningprocess. An LMS is the infrastructure that delivers and manages

instructional content, identifies and assesses individual and

organizational learning or training goals, tracks the progress towards

meeting those goals, and collects and presents data for supervising

the learning process of organization as a whole.[4] A Learning

Management System delivers content but also handles registering

for courses, course administration, skills gap analysis, tracking, and

reporting

Learning management system

A robust LMS should be able to do the following:[1]

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

learning content management

system (LCMS)

learning content management system (LCMS) is a related software

technology that provides a multi-user environment where

developers, authors, instructional designers, and subject matterexperts may create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital e-

learning content from a central object repository. LCMS focuses on

the development, management and publishing of the content that

will typically be delivered via an LMS. Users can both create and re-

use e-learning content and reduce duplicated development efforts.

LCMS provides

A 'repository' centralized

• The ability to import external e-learning materials

• One way to access the material

• Tools for creating content (authoring) and amendments thereto

• Tools for developing evaluation materials (student)

• Tools for version management (change control) and to display the history of changes and when used

• Support for publishing and modifying Web content

• Tools to manage the process of developing materials for e-learning

• A dynamic user interface

• A support system metadata / taxonomies.