Throughout, university students’ opinions regarding LMS use at their schools was very positive, especially in terms of its potential. Students were eager to adopt the usage of an LMS, even speaking out about wishing it was used more widely. Students
In winter 2006, students at the University of Denver also using Blackboard as their LMS expressed general satisfaction with it. They were very pleased because of the LMS’s ease of use, the flexible access to learning materials, enhanced communication with
A survey conducted at an Australian university in Oct. 2006 looked to get student feedback on present and future IT services and the e-learning available. In particular, the university desired students’ opinions on how teachers were using the LMS (at
One pedagogical approach in designing courses using an LMS is Laurillard’s Conversational Model. Laurillard’s model outlines the five different media forms in an LMS-based course: narrative, interactive, communicative, adaptive, and productive. Narrative media show the learner something; technological examples include
Gilly Salmon is another e-learning pioneer who developed a model applicable to your LMS. The first 2 stages in Salmon’s model emphasize the acclimatization of learners to the online environment, and the creation of a supportive social environment. Salmon suggests
The Social-Constructivist approach to designing an LMS-based course is unlike the Instructional approach in that rather than having a teacher as the expert and stressing a relationship between the students and the teacher, this approach depends largely on the collaboration
