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In the 1980s many institutions started to develop online courses;
among them was Nova Southeastern University. The school began offering online
programs in 1983 and created the first electronic classroom in 1985.[1] In the
1990s, universities started to design their own Learning Management Systems
(LMS) but most of the educational institutions were using systems off the
market. Blackboard was one of the main players in this market. It was a
complete solution for the management of the courses. It helped students and
teachers to exchange learning materials, do tests, communicate with each
other, and track progress. The environment was able to facilitate learning in
quite an easy way.[2]
In 1999 Jones International University became the first fully
online university in the U.S. to be accredited by the Higher Learning
Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.[3]
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During the late 1990s and early 2000s, many LMS software
applications were being developed by companies such as epathlearning, CourseNotes, and Moodle. By 2001,
Blackboard reported that more than 1200 schools around the country are using
its learning management system. In 2011, the company reported that 18.5
million messages were sent in a single day via Blackboard.[4] This
shows the exponential growth of eLearning in the past 10 years.
Over the past decade, the
flexibility, convenience provided by these LMS software applications and the
growing recognition of online education has changed how college students earn
their degrees. Today, most public and private institutions in the United States
offer some type of online course. According to the Huffington Post, four of the country’s largest universities operate mostly online.
The report also noted that in 2011, University of Phoenix awarded nearly 6,000
degrees, more than any other online or traditional university in the U.S.[5]
Question #2 of Week 2:
Tell us about your personal experience with Learning Management
System(LMS). Either good or bad experience, please explain how it was beneficial
or how it caused you trouble.
Sources:
I took several online courses and used Blackboard for all of those classes. I thought Blackboard worked great for those courses and I like Moodle too.
ReplyDeleteThe only programs that I ever had a problem with were the math / finance programs that came with the textbooks. You would be so sure that you had the right answer and after fighting with the program you would find that they wanted you to round it to 3 decimal places instead of 2. Then you would have to do the entire problem over again. So frustrating.
I was introduce to blackboard over at CPCC. Being an old dog and technologically challenged, I was slow to adapt to the new was of doing homework. I have come around with experience and find that Blackboard, Moodle and other LMS save the teacher time and also provides the student with multiple questions on the same subject matter that will assist in greater understanding. I have myfinancelab right now. If i get an answer incorrect, I can have the lab help me work it out tep by step and when complete give me another question (the same question with different numbers) to enhance my understanding. Isn't technology great!
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