Our task for this week was to find information and write a critical essay based on the topic Course / Learning Management System (CMS / LMS). The critical essay must contain the definition, advantages and lists of open source software for course or learning management system. For this particular task, we were asked to work in pairs and every pair has to come up with their respective critical essay. After that, we were also asked to share our critical essay with our course mates, course lecturer and also our course-coordinator by using the google document so that everybody can take a look at it and give their own insights or comments about it.
I learned a lot of things in the process of completing this task. Honestly, I have never heard of the term course or learning management system before, but after I have done some research which discussed more on this topic in detail then only I managed to get a good grasp of it. From my understanding about this topic, CMS/LMS is a method that will allow those people who wish to have a distant learning compared to few years ago where most of our students were unable to fulfill their desire of having chance to study abroad because during that time our technology’s progress was still not that advance enough. Through the application of this method, it would not only provide a better opportunity for the students in pursuing their studies but also contributes to the positive development of our education system. Among the advantages of CMS/LMS are providing of immediate access to training, save our time, money and energy, it is also always up-to-date and enable us to enhance our learning experience.
Based on the research that I have conducted I found that CMS/LMS has several types of open open-source software such as Docebo , eFront, Dokeos, Claroline, Atutor¸ILIAS, OLAT, Sakai, LRN, Openelms and Ganesha. These are the software which play important roles in the CMS/LMS and to ensure the effectiveness of using this system. All of this software has already been applied by all over the world and Malaysia is one of them.
As a teacher to be it is very important for me to learn and explore more about this thing as this skill is very crucial when it comes to teaching and learning processes. For instance, every affair that I make will be more organized especially matters concerning to education process. The most important key point here is self-awareness which I myself need to decide whether to take this opportunity to improve myself and start building up my knowledge on ICT skills or not. Besides that, patience is also crucial in mastering this skill as I always encounter situations which often cause me to give up and feeling despair. This situation happened whenever I could not recall the knowledge that I have just acquired and also I did not manage to apply and internalize the input that has been given by our lecturer during lectures. From that situation, I tried to be more patient even though the problem that I am facing is quite challenging.
In a nutshell, CMS/LMS is a very good kind of system which needs to be developed in every country in this world so that education system will be easier and stronger in terms of producing great human capitals in the future.
B.ED TESL (SM) UKM-IPGKS
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