Learning Management System Opens the Door of Opportunity
Taking a walk down memory lane show cases the advancements that have been made within the education system to improve the quality of learning, who would have ever thought that something like a learning management system could be invented to facilitate distant learning creating an easier way for students to further their education? The developments from past to present is incredible and with recent feats it shows no sign of halting new development Technology is in a constant quest to develop innovative initiatives that ultimately strive to make every day routines efficient, and we see this constant drive even within the learning management system as new types of modules and courses are developed.
Back in the 1700’s classrooms were very minimalistic with a one room school house containing multiple age groups. Schools began to develop quickly and as a result the doors of opportunity were opened for students not discriminating against, age, social class, ethnicity, or gender. Students were put into age groups and created a class for each age group with their own age appropriate material. Skipping ahead a few centuries, computers were brought into schools for the first time. It wasn’t long before computers were integrated into the curriculum as a regular subject matter making it mandatory for students to participate in computer classes.
As no surprise technology went above and beyond when it introduced wireless internet. Wireless internet is popping up everywhere, college campuses, the workplace, even our favorite local caf?s are becoming more populated by students and business workers as they have startied to offer free wifi. High Schools are turning to the web as they provide a secured system where Students must complete and submit their assignments online and can access their new assignments for their class schedules. This new enhancement has made the Parents lives easier as they are now able to keep track of their child’s progression and performance in their classes as online report cards have been integrated as a valuable resource to ensure students are being kept accountable. Universities are cashing in with the new online learning trend as they create distant learning programs that enable students to receive their degree online via learning management system.
Technology is moving forward continuously as it tries to seek new ways to create an even more efficient and useful means for higher education. An example of this is newly integrated interactive courses that provide virtual instructor led seminars live on the web as well as assessment tools that measure the effectiveness of the course by measuring student’s reactions and scores. With the different learning methods, content developers have implemented each style; visual, auditory, and kinetic, to their curriculum material to ensure the greatest amount of comprehension for their learners. The door of opportunity to further education has been made available to us via the learning management system and valuable learning tools that have been proven to be extremely valuable. It has been an amazing journey from where we started to where we sit now in the education system and knowing that this isn’t the end of new and exciting developments.