Abstract
E-learning is one of the fastest growing areas of the high technology development, especially in the academic environments. However, the instructor is a very important factor in the learning process, but the advantages of e-learning change the role which the instructor plays in this process. E-learning gives an opportunity to anyone to learn in a rapid and customised way. Nowadays, many learning management systems (LMSs) available in the marketplace offer electronic teaching and learning tools. Choosing the most appropriate LMS that fits the needs and requirements of instructor and the learner is one of the most confusing and difficult decisions to any educational institution. Accordingly, the need to a computer-based tool for getting help in taking such a decision is rising on. This paper offers a solution to this problem. It provides a description about a web-based decision support system named Easy Way to Evaluate LMS (EW-LMS). It has been developed by adopting multi-attribute decision-making algorithm in order to select the best LMS depending on the user needs.
Highlights
No one denies the important role of technologies in growing up any working environment; the learning environment is not an exception
In EW-learning management systems (LMSs), the weight rating is for each feature in the evaluation operation, while the rank rating is for each feature in each LMS included in the operation, whereas, both of them take fuzzy values as per their frequency
This paper presented a web-based decision support system for aiding in evaluating LMSs depending on the principles of artificial intelligence and multi-attribute decision-making algorithms
Summary
No one denies the important role of technologies in growing up any working environment; the learning environment is not an exception. Because of the huge amount of LMSs offered and because of this rapid and massive development in e-learning technologies over the world (Momani 2010a), in addition to the lack in serious solutions that offers professional tools to select the suitable LMS for educational institutions, there is an insisting need to define or develop some computer-based tools to evaluate the quality, efficiency, performance, and the suitability of this development and these LMSs. Obviously, the operation to assess any information management system is one of the decision-making processes. The developed system entitled Easy Way to Evaluate LMSs (EW-LMS) is a web-based DSS that can be used over the Internet anywhere and at any time It focuses on the LMSs evaluating and assessing them for users as: which one is better than the others, which one is more usable, and which one is more efficient depending on the users’ needs. This system contains some other supporting services for its users; (1) the customised comparison operations between LMSs, (2) discussion groups, and (3) the expert DSS that provides the users additional supporting results of LMS evaluation operation which have been done previously by employing the expert systems technology concepts
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