"Evolution of Learning Management Systems "

1. Evolution of Learning Management Systems (LMS) What is Learning Management System (LMS)? One of the most talked about acronyms in recent years, LMS expands as LearningManagement System. Think about a company that wants to give a hands-on training to its employees on a product which is about to be launched. One way would be to make them all assemble for a town- hall session, and educate them. Alternatively, they could make use of a specially deployed LMS where chunks of information could be dispersed to employees in the form of bite-sized documentations and interactive infographic, with games and quizzes to assess their performance and track the extent to which employees have understood the product. Employees can thus train themselves based on their own time suitability, and also motivate themselves to learn it better because there’ll be certifications based on the ‘quizzes’ that arrive! Clearing the certification means you are qualified enough to sell the product to external clients. Each employee can start eLearning by logging into the LMS with their own personalized credentials, and go for the certification tests when they feel ready to take the quiz. The LMS can thus track or monitor the progress of all employees, and managers (with admin rights) can see how far the employees have mastered the learning material, and that who all have qualified for or failed the certification test.

2. So, LMS is essentially a software program for continuous learning and development (mark the word ‘continuous’ in the increasingly agile landscape). Just like Powerpoint helps you create content in the form of slides and Yahoomail lets you manage your emails, an LMS is a platform to create, manage and deliver eLearning training courses, either to your internal business stakeholders or to the external internet audience. So who all are using LMS and what are they using it for? If you think it’s only the traditional educational institutions that are using LMS, you are mistaken. Practically anyone who is dealing with eLearning is using such a platform. That includes schools and universities; the large MNCs who want to train their employees with self-paced, microlearning courses tracking their grades and milestones; the small and mid-cap businesses who want to go digital with their employee training; or, for that matter, even the non-profit NGOs who are using e-Course materials for the targeted skill development of non-privileged sections of society. The government agencies use it; the United Nations use it. Source : https://www.disprz.com/blog/learning-management-systems/