Structuring and Facilitating Online Learning through Learning / Course Management Systems

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Author(s): Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 18
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (California State University - Long Beach, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-906-0.ch016

Keywords: Adult Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Online learning—whether it is human-facilitated or automated, hybrid / blended, asynchronopus or synchronous or mixed--often relies on learning / course management systems (L/CMSes). These systems have evolved in the past decade-and-a-half of popular use to integrate powerful tools, third-party software, Web 2.0 functionalities (blogs, wikis, virtual worlds, and tag clouds), and a growing set of capabilities (eportfolios, data management, back-end data mining, information assurance, and other elements). This chapter highlights learning / course management systems, their functionalities and structures (including some integrated technologies), their applied uses in adult e-learning, and extra-curricular applications. A concluding section explores future L/CMSes based on current trends.

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