What are a LMS and LCMS?
Learning Management System (LMS) is software tools designed to manage learner interventions, it manages the delivery of self-paced, e-learning courses.
Learning Content Management System (LCMS) allow electronic content to be available in segments that multiple users to manage course content and track performance.
Learners log into the LMS using browser, select courses from the catalog and launch them; tracks the learners’ activities with the courses. Learning objects have a wide variety of definitions, but they are digital content that can created, manipulated, stored and retrieved using common storage and search routines.
In reflecting to question asked by Professor Tim that “Are one of these a subset of the other? Or, are they two separate "things" that simply overlap”?
The combination of LMS and LCMS can be use for effective training, and are subset of each other. LCMS solves is to create enough content in time to meet the needs of individual learners or groups of learners. A good LMS provides an infrastructure that enables organization to plan, deliver, and manage learning programs in any format; and it supports multiple authoring systems and integrates easily with LCMS systems. In its role as a catalyst for overall learning environment, an LMS can integrate LCMS learning objects via technical specifications and standards and assume responsibility for all content management, including delivery and tracking, storage in a content repository, incorporation of content objects into blended curriculums, and tracking learner progress through courses.
The needs for LMS and LCMS in education and training environment, which have had an increasingly profound impact upon the speed, content of ownership, cost, flexibility, and business benefits of e-learning solutions. Many organizations with extensive, well-established classroom training functions use LMS to enroll learners in classroom-based events, manage face-to-face training, and report on progress.
The similarities and differences is that the LCMS are the corporate version of traditional course management systems that were initially developed for higher education. LCMS application change the value economics of e-learning content delivery by organizations a scalable platform to deliver proprietary knowledge to the individual learners without bearing a prohibitive cost burden. The LCMS can provide different types of materials, learning methods, and schedules. LCMS is an enterprise platform that moves beyond simple content authoring, storage, and delivery administrative applications.
Pen interface with LMS or other ERP systems LMS is an important tool for strategic deployment of learning and the long-term benefits are very important. LMS takes a centralized, organizational approach to learning while in contrast LCMS provides functionality as content reuse and adaptive individualized learning paths based on learning objects. Also provides asynchronous collaborative learning including discussion groups. In using classmate William’s example, Blackboard has both LMS and LCMS functions, the LMS incorporates and integrated set of programs and tutorials programs with data storages, and tracking functions.
Personal perception of both LMS and LCMS in an educational environment; this advanced application enables organizations to deliver customized courses, videos, live seminars and tests via the Internet. The LMS is scalable systems that provides total complete foundation for all aspects of e-learning, and manage learning objective content with support from learner collaboration. The significant of LCMS is that it stores learning objects in a central repository for instructional designers to retrieve and assemble into personalized courses. Traditional courses tend to contain more content than any single learner can absorb or needs to absorb about a topic which benefit learners and developer to deliver just-in-time and just-enough learning.
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