Familiar with the word “LMS”? It’s a trending term these days due to the fast-moving developments in the world of technology. LMS can help you keep up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the modern world.
What is LMS?
Asper Wikipedia, LMS or Learning Management System is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.
In short, it’s a framework which makes learning process simpler, convenient and more efficient. As an individual, it helps you learn wherever you go and keep track of your learning. As an organisation, it helps to challenge its members to keep refining their skills and to keep track of it.
Growing popularity of LMS
LMS is becoming popular and widely used with the advancement in the field of technology. It started with e-learning in the early 20thcentury when communication systems were being widely accepted. Again, with the boom of internet, massive developments took place in the field of education which triggered the need and acceptance of LMS. The first fully-featured LMS is EKKO, by Norway’s NKI Distance Education Network, released in 1991. And now, Google says, 83 percent of organizations around the world use an LMS.
Technical aspects
An organization, requiring an LMS, basically has two options. One is to buy the LMS software and have it installed on its servers and second is to have a SaaS (Software as a Service) LMS. The maintenance of a locally hosted LMS might require more labour and expertise. And with the ever-increasing popularity of cloud computing, usually organizations prefer a SaaS LMS these days.
A SaaS LMS is an LMS on the cloud. Anyone anywhere around the world can use it. Instead of buying a software and installing it on your local server, the vendor installs and maintains it on the cloud for you. So, it’s less hassle to have a SaaS LMS running in the organization.
Benefits of having an LMS
For any organisation, it’s important to give training to its members. Trainings can help in pushing everyone to refine their skills with the changing needs and trends in the market. And LMS can replace this training.
With an LMS, anyone with a computer/tablet/phone can learn from anywhere in the world. LMS does not just offer online training. It allows to manage and track the training which can be a motivational trigger to keep on learning. And it allows all types of content like videos, images and documents. There are also many integration strategies for embedding content in the LMS like SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) and LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability).
Having an LMS will make learning, more efficient and cost-effective. It’s beneficial as a trainer too. It’s not needed to repeatedly teach a content, else, trainers can focus on adding on new and latest content. Also, the learners will have immense options to choose to learn on a versatile LMS.
Our choice for LMS
Our choice for LMS is TheLearningLab from Penceo. Penceo is a marketing and communication agency and TheLearningLab is their e-learning platform. We like the platform as it is,
· User-friendly
· Easily customisable
· Multilingual
· Easy to track the progress in learning
· Supports SCORM
· Built-in page builders to build custom pages
· Fast and reliable customer support
Concluding note
LMS has become an inevitable part of any organisation or individual. LMS is the future of education. All the schools and universities that we see today might once function just as an LMS in future with the developments in the field of ground-breaking technologies like Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality.