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The open source old favourite, Moodle’s been around for just over 10 years. In fact, it seems to be diversifying (or fragmenting, depending on how you see it) after a period when it looked like Blackboard was about the completely sow up the entire market. But these companies wouldn’t be springing up if no-one was buying their products, so the LMS market seems to be in good health. Reeled in by the pitch, you’re then shown what is…. The pitch is always something along the lines of ” You know how LMSs are over-complex, expensive and clunky? Well, we’ve come up with the solution!”.
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At the BETT show earlier this year, one of the most striking things was the vast number of new LMS companies that are springing up. However, there’s been a growing tide of opinion that they are the clunky and over-complex dinosaurs of the EdTech world, as new lighter, quicker to change, cheaper and more flexible options spring up seemingly every week. The main justification for their existence is that they allow for centralised administration of online and blended learning. LMSs have been used for years in universities around the world and have, over the last few years, been working their way into all areas of education as schools look to provide online learning. Even platforms that claim to be the alternative to the LMS (and that usually means they offer more ‘web 2.0’ features – social, user generated content) such as English360 do a lot of the same things as an LMS. And it’s LMSs that most publishers use to deliver online courses in ELT. ‘VLE’ is the term more commonly used in the UK higher education system, but it ELT we usually talk about LMSs.
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So if that’s an LMS, what’s a VLE (virtual learning environment)? It’s exactly the same thing, unless anyone out there can give me a definition of the difference. You all know what an LMS is, right? If not, this snippet from Wikipedia is enough of a definition: an LMS is an online platform which handles the “administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning education courses or training programs”. Learning management systems LMS & VLE 101
#Buillda scorm package that will work with d2l series
This is the fifth and final post in a series covering 5 key trends in EdTech, as identified by Edudemic a few weeks ago, but looked at from an ELT point of view:ĥ. In future posts, we’ll have a look at what we might expect in the future as mobile/tablet based learning continues to grow in importance and we see what I think is an inevitable blurring of the boundary between the LMS and the MOOC. Let’s have a look at the LMS market in general and see what the main ELT publishers are up to. In fact, in ELT, it feels like they’re only just getting going. Learning management systems were supposed to have died out by now, weren’t they? Swept away by a wave of 21st century platforms, mobile apps and MOOCs.