Distance Learning and Learning Management Systems

Çavuş, Nadire

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.611

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“…Mallinson and Krull [8] call attention to how increased access to the internet at increased speed and reduced costs is facilitating increased access to higher education. In a 2015 article, Cavus [9] notes that "currently, internet has been preferred in education because of the technological possibilities it is providing, and its potential to reach much larger masses of people" (p. 876). More specifically, Owusu-Mensah et al [10] have called attention to the fact that the internet has opened new possibilities for the delivery of higher education services to larger numbers of people who might previously not have been able to access a university education because of factors such as employment, marital status, family responsibilities, and distance.…”

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Piloting the Concurrent Teaching of a Graduate Programme at Multiple Sites and its Value to The University of the West Indies

Griffith¹

2019

IJTIE

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This article reports on the benefits of a pilot at the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Education which entailed the teaching of a Graduate Diploma in Education through The UWI's Single Virtual University Space (SVUS) that used the Zoom platform to host online classes. It facilitated concurrent delivery of courses to students at a number of sites and countries. The SVUS was an initiative of The UWI to serve, better, the needs of communities where students may not be able to access a programme delivered at a University campus. The lessons learned from the pilot informed several subsequent UWI initiatives, including the work of the Office for Online Learning which is responsible, inter alia, for expanding the concurrent delivery of the University's programmes and courses to multiple sites. The lessons learned may also be of value to other institutions seeking to deliver programmes to multiple sites through video streaming.

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Piloting the Concurrent Teaching of a Graduate Programme at Multiple Sites and its Value to The University of the West Indies

Griffith¹

2019

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“…Learners are increasing and becoming more varied, demanding more flexible and easy to reach learning contents, not want to be dependent on only one learning method want to learn a lot of thing at the time and place where they can reach. Internet is offering many tools and application packages to educators that can be used at all stages of teaching, and such tools increase the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching [3].…”

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“…They are also successful at the exams. For success of distance education, learning contents should be prepare by the help of new technologies with considering students opinion [3,8,11].…”

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Lms Selection Process For Effective Distance Education System In Organizations

Karagöz¹,

Oral²,

Kaya³

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Towards the end of the 20 ℎ century, especially development of science and technology brought some innovation to some conceptual area such as education. In society, to build a quality and civilized life, education emerges as a one of the most important actors. Unfortunately, the rights in education of the every person in society may be delayed due to financial problems, physical disabilities, time pressure, geographical distances or any other reasons. Distance learning is a one of the method that provides education for people by eliminating these disadvantages. Since end of the 19th century, distance education has been provided with some methods such as TV, radio, mail and etc. Especially, in the beginning of 21 ℎ century; internet is widely used by everybody.New technological environment has brought a new opportunity for distance education. Learning Management System (LMS) is the most important actor of the internet based distance learning that brings together educators and students for training. LMS allows to deliver materials, having assignment and quizzes and other educational activities.Whether educational institutions or organizations that are emphasis on the training of employees can use LMS platform. Every organization has to decide which LMS is suitable for them. Decision makers face to solve this kind of problems because every LMS has different characteristics and different learning process. This study is focused on choosing suitable LMS for organizations by using AHP methods. Two groups of LMS, open source software's (Moodle and Sakai) and commercial software's (BlackBoard and Sharepoint LMS), are compared by using selecting criteria's. These criteria's are license costs, flexibility, security, user interface and prevalence of use. In the decision process, different weight ratios are used depending on their priority. The findings of this AHP Process are discussed.

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“…There are many options widely open to choose which technology is takenbased on the need and aims. The used of these advanced technologies has reached many sectors, including education-schools and higher institutions (Hamiti and Reka 2012;Cavus 2015). Teaching media and tool have developed integratedly with those technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%