Discuss about the Learning Management System.
I am currently undertaking an academic course in the domain of engineering management and would thus like to gain knowledge regarding the practical application of management theories in engineering works. Since I completed my bachelor’s degree in IT, I am willing to explore the use of management programs and policies in some of the leading information technology service providers of the market, the HCL Technologies being one such example. I have realized the importance of applying the concept of management and compliance it with the development in field of engineering professionalism.
The project report has been made to incorporate the analysis of the engineering management and following them for realizing the importance of the learning management for the employees of an organization. The following report would help in reviewing the project of learning management system for the employees. The report consists of a section of literature review in which the topics related to learning management system would be critically evaluated for formation of an appropriate project report.
The study has been done for analyzing the role and impact of the learning management system for the development of employees in an organization. The employees play a fine role for the development of the operations and proper functioning of systems in the organization. The learning management system would help in forming a compliance with the progress of the professional aptitude of the employees (Arends, 2014). Learning in business organization plays the most significant role for the development of the operations and formation of the better solution for their operations. The learning and development are dependent on each other and the absence of learning would result in chaotic implementation of the innovative operations. The proper and systematic development of operations has resulted in forming progress of the business organization. According to the authors like (Bednall, Sanders, & Runhaar, 2014), the role of the learning management system has not being limited to benefit the organization with process development. However, the system has helped in forming an incredible formation of system management skills and functions.
The development of technology has brought out many new and innovative ways for completing any process or operations in the business organization. The development of operations has made it evitable for the employees to understand and form better acceptance for the new system. It has been seen that due to the lack of knowledge and prior information, the employees are not able to adjust with the new technology or system in the organization (Cavus, 2013). It has resulted in making them unfit to carry on their services in the organization. The employees need to be adaptive and understanding for developing better understanding about the innovative technologies and processes. The lack of learning process in the organization would make it incompatible for supporting the operations of the organization. The competition among the organizations has resulted in development for finer means of producing higher quality products and services. The lack of learning system would result in making the operations of organizations incompatible to support innovative functions (Chung, Pasquini, & Koh, 2013). It would also result in increasing the overall expenses of the organization.
The use of learning information system would help in forming processes and procedures for the compatibility of the employees and their learning process. It would help the employees for developing a habit of self evaluation and development to adopt to the latest operation processes in the organization. The development of technology can be accommodated with the operations and the employees that are already been in the organization (Cigdem & Topcu, 2015). The use of learning management system would be helpful for the easy addressing to the challenges and problems for providing more beneficial opportunities in the organization. The learning process would help individuals for developing extra attention to the internal and external operations.
The project has been done to consider the learning management system and its benefit for the employees. The development of the project would help in realizing the importance of the implementing the learning management system in an organization. This section of the report would explain the aims of the research and point out the objectives for completing the project.
The primary aim of the research is to find out the role and importance of the learning management system for a business organization. The study would critically evaluate the formation of the research for developing the role of the learning information system. The topic has involved some terms related to the information learning process like e-learning, information, ICT and many others (Du, Fu, Zhao, Liu, & Liu, 2013). The research aims to clarify all these terms to the readers for forming an appropriate technology system for the implementation of the learning management system. The objective of this report is to highlight the issues of lack of prior knowledge and development of the technology to adjust the innovation in the operations. The other objective of the report is to use some appropriate literature to analyze the development of the learning in the project of implementing the learning management system. The objectives of the report are pointed out below:
The research project is based on the analysis of significance of learning management system in business organization. The research questions are based on the objectives of the project and formation of the research analysis. The research questions include:
The literature review for the topic of significance of the learning management system has been done for critical evaluation of its role in the business organization. The points included in the literature review are definition of the topic, history, purpose, comparison with same technology, and technical aspects of the system.
According to (Emelyanova & Voronina, 2014), learning management system can be defined as a software application that can be used for documentation, administration, reporting, tracking, and delivery of the electronic media based educational courses and training programs. The system ranges from the management of training to the educational records keeping software for online distributing in the organization. The use of hybrid courses and augmented learning knowledge can be used by the Internet platform for delivering the most suitable and comfortable system development for the Internet based learning. The business organization utilizes the learning management system for delivering online training in the training departments and to use the automatic data recording along with employee registration.
The development of learning management system has been initiated and developed from the computer based development. The computer based development has been flooded with instructions (computer based and computer aided) and learning process (computer assisted). The learning process includes sophisticated tutorials, practice programs, and individualized instructions (Emmer & Evertson, 2016). The computer based learning process started with computer managed instructions and then shifted to integrated learning system. It offers the additional functions to the instructions provided. The Integrated learning system provided the ease of management and tracking along with integrated operations and personalized instructions. Jostens had coined the term Integrated learning system and the system of computer instruction was originally based on PLATO learning system (Holman, Aguilar, & Fishman, 2013). The PLATO learning system was content free and separate computer based instruction.
The learning management system and other educational system had the difference of understanding the systematic nature of the learning management system (Horvat, Dobrota, Krsmanovic, & Cudanov, 2015). It provides the framework for the development of all the learning processes in the organization. The learning management system infrastructure handles and delivers the instructional content, manages the individual training, assesses the organizational goal, collects and presents the data for the learning process, and tracks the progress for the meeting the goals of the organization. The handling of course registration, administration, gap analysis in skills, and reporting of tracks are all done with the aid of learning management system (Horvat, Dobrota, Krsmanovic, & Cudanov, 2015). The learning management system is web based for supporting the faster access to the system and development of the online learning process. The role of the learning management system in the business organization is for developing the content based learning, enhancing the solutions, and supporting the teachings. Learning management system is useful for compliance training in regulated industries. The self service in the e-learning process is helpful for forming an self registration and similar processes and it would help in forming the affective process for business organization.
The learning management system should not be confused with the content management system. The virtual learning environments by content management system has similar functions like tracking of performance, online course materials, mixed learning processes, and communicating with students (Islam, 2014). However, the systematic nature of the learning management system does not have limited functionality as course management system. The content management system is made for creating the contents of the course and this function is not available in learning management system. The content management system is a software technology for providing the technology of multi user environment and the delivery of the digital education technology. It focuses on the development of the content for the e-learning materials. It also involves the management and publishing of the learning management system content. The users can create and reutilize it for reducing the efforts for duplication development (Krumm, Waddington, Teasley, & Lonn, 2014). The content management system provides the ease of instance connections and access to any particular course content for a number of audiences.
The learning management system are based on the web content and they are built on various platforms such as Microsoft .NET, Java/J2EE and PHP. The database that supports the learning management system is developed in MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle (Sahid, Santosa, Ferdiana, & Lukito, 2016). The software developed has the commercial license or open source license. The organizations require the learning management system in multilingual form to support the various languages of the content. It helps in providing the services around the world. The standard of SCORM or sharable content object reference model supports the learning management system for business organizations.
The study of the above points on the learning management system has helped in developing a prior knowledge about the learning management system. The software application that can be used for documentation, administration, reporting, tracking, and delivery of the electronic media based educational courses and training programs (Wright, Lopes, Montgomerie, Reju, & Schmoller, 2014). The use of hybrid courses and augmented learning knowledge utilizes the learning management system for delivering online training in the training departments and to use the automatic data recording along with employee registration. The learning management system had provided the framework for the development of all the learning processes in the organization and it handles and delivers the instructional content for developing the content based learning within the business organizations.
The research methodology has been helpful for compiling the most appropriate structure for the adoption of the learning management system in business organization. The research methodology can be helpful for providing the ways for the importance analysis of the learning management system that can be used in business organization. However, (Sailer, Kiefer, & Raubal, 2015) have stated that the more detailing of the research process would result in generating some errors and flaws for the system. The research methodology for the significance of learning management system in business operations consist of selecting appropriate philosophy, approach, strategy, choices, time horizons, and technique used. In this research study, the philosophy selected for the analysis of the topic is subjectivism as it evaluates the benefit of the learning management system for business organization. The approach used for the analysis is inductive and the research design selected is descriptive. There are not much practical data available on the use of learning management system. Hence, the inductive research approach would be helpful for forming the solution for the research project. The descriptive design is used because the topic has to be discussed broadly for finding out the overall impact of learning management system in business organization. The data collection method used for accumulating the data for analysis of the significance of the learning management system is from various online sources and journals. The time horizons for the analysis include the longitudinal approach as it forms the appropriate consideration for the limited operations of the organization.
The secondary analysis of the learning management system has been done from various online educational sources for evaluating and highlighting the webpage features of the learning management system. The research process is helpful for forming a critical analysis of the web based e-learning process that is helpful for the training programs and learning processes in education (Shin & Kang, 2015). The applications of learning management system includes the administrations of the teacher and student data, e-learning programs, online courses, built in communication, documentation, report tracking, support portability, and provided SSL security system. The learning management system can be used for managing online content and administrating the learning process in distant education program. The use of the learning management system would help in forming a number of operations and system for the employees to train and become resourceful for the development of the machine co-ordination in the operational processes of the business organization. The online user interface of the learning management system consists of a main interface that acts as the portal for accessing (Sahid, Santosa, Ferdiana, & Lukito, 2016). The portal has been deployed by the organization for supporting the learning process of their employees. The page consists of user accessed to the video libraries and study materials for the employees. The webpage is accessible with the help of logging in at the main page of the organization. The user would get into the account and would be able to watch and download the study materials from the portal (Raman, Don, Khalid, & Rizuan, 2014). The organizations would also be helpful for forming the aptitude tests and skill proficiency tests for checking and evaluating the learning process of the employees.
The final discussion has been based on the comparative analysis of the literature review results and the analysis of the secondary information analysis. The literature review has been useful for forming an analysis of the various aspects of the learning management system. The study has shown that the learning management system had been used for documentation, administration, reporting, tracking, and delivery of the electronic media based educational courses and training programs. The hybrid courses and augmented learning knowledge can be used by the Internet platform for delivering online training in the training departments and automatic data recording along with employee registration. The analysis of the past’s technologies of learning management system has shown that the technology has developed from simple computer based learning to integrated learning system and later on shifted to learning management system.
On the other hand, the analysis of the secondary data analysis has shown the webpage development and structure for the learning management system. The webpage of the learning management system consist of a portal from where the employees can access the crucial information and study materials for the learning management system. The study materials can be in forms of videos, PDFs, and DOCs. The use of portal for the business organization is useful for forming and calibrating the optional development of the business organizations. The facilities of learning management system are development of an infrastructure that handles and delivers the instructional content, manages the individual training, assesses the organizational goal, collects and presents the data for the learning process, and tracks the progress for the meeting the goals of the organization.
Conclusion
The project report had incorporated the analysis of the engineering management and realized the importance of the learning management for the employees of an organization. It can be concluded from the project report that the learning management system had a major role and impact for the development of employees in an organization. Learning in business organization had been useful for development of the operations and formation of the better solution for their operations. The role of the learning management system had not being limited to benefit the organization with process development. However, the learning management system had helped in forming an incredible formation of system management skills and functions. The final discussion of the literature review and secondary data analaysis had shown that the learning management system had been used for documentation, administration, reporting, tracking, and delivery of the electronic media based educational courses and training programs. The analysis of the secondary data analysis consists of a studying a learning development portal from where the employees can access the crucial information and study materials. The structure and the processes included in the webpage of the learning management system had been explained in the system. The overall summary of the report is that the learning management system not only helps in building career of students through distance education but it had been allowing business organizations for the training of their employees.
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