Week 1 Project: LMO Overview

This week was filled with so much new learning. The new found knowledge I've acquired about LMS this week, was learned this week. Besides defining all of the terms in detail just one more time, I want to start by saying how I learned more about the relationship of the systems metaphorically and analogously. The systems of LCMS, LMS, CMS, PLE have been figuratively referred as a four-legged table, a crate filled with packages all connected one to another, a wedding ceremony where the MC (master of ceremony) pronounces them all "married" to one another, and even Joe's reference to them as alphabet soup just helps me to understand the relationship in easier terms. I realize there is a lot more that I need to know after the vast amount of information provided just on our first week of assignments alone.

I would like to say that I am now fully knowledgeable of each of the systems' functions and can call out examples of each at the crack of a whip, but I'm not there yet. This week I aim to know them all and be able to provide automation examples of each as I've come in contact with this week: There are numerous LMS's out there. "IRIS Education" defined it as - Learning Management System - eLearning infrastructure and tracking system. LMS's range from simple course-by-course registration systems to humongous, real-time databases that deal with personalization, learning prescriptions, job competencies, and parsing learning objects. CMI - Computer Managed Instruction - CMI is another name for LMS. LCMS - Learning content management system. An LCMS is a multi-user environment where learning developers can create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital learning content from a central object repository.

The only detailed experience I believe I have with LMS' is through this FSO program. Most LMS systems are web-based to facilitate "anytime, anywhere" access to learning content and administration (Google, 2010). PLE (personal learning environment) is similar to social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Without this course, I would still be out there clueless and estranged from the digital movement and modernization of technology.

Resources:

IRIS Education. (2010) Jargon buster. Retrieved from http://www.iriseducation.org/