Abstract
Over the past 25 years, Learning Management Systems have evolved tremendously. Use of eLearning systems in education is becoming more eminent every day. These tools may base on content management (CMS), learning management (LMS) or even a composition of the above (LCMS). However, none of these systems offer the possibility to users to assembly different contents under a single representation. Spiral Connect, the LMS created by University Lyon 1, fills this need providing a content management tool (CMS), called “Website”, inside its learning management context. This paper examines the importance of having a CMS inside a LMS, using the example of Spiral Connect. Data from all Websites created on Spiral Connect platform has been gathered and analyzed in order to show the role and the impact of such a tool in an eLearning system. These data were also used to analyze user preferences.
Highlights
Use of technology as a mean to enrich and evolve education process is not new
This paper examines the importance of having a Content Management Systems (CMS) inside a Learning Management Systems (LMS), using the example of Spiral Connect
What started as a computerbased training (CBT) and computer-based instruction (CBI) gave its place to distance education, after the introduction of World Wide Web in the '90s, to become what today is described with terms such as web-based training (WBT), online education, virtual learning, m-learning, digital education etc
Summary
Use of technology as a mean to enrich and evolve education process is not new. In the early 1920s, the first teaching machine was created by Sydney Pressey, a psychology professor at Ohio State University. Spiral Connect cannot be considered as a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) since its primary target users are training managers and instructors and because a great part of the platform focuses on classroom management and instructor-led training [1;8]. Whether it comes to LMS, CMS or even LCMS, despite their impressive growth, all three of them have yet to implement a tool for the common presentation of a collection of different learning objects. The second section of this paper describes the different functionalities of the website tool while in the third section we use the “Websites” created in Spiral Connect platform as a data set to measure the significance of such a tool in an eLearning environment
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