Saturday, October 13, 2012

Growth in E-leaning Environments


In the current business environment, online learning has gained a major recognition within the higher education context and it is a vital need in the current society to find such improvements to increase the level of knowledge in people. The growth of Internet computing has enabled people to change the way of gathering knowledge and it has introduced a new drive way for distance education. In the modern society e-learning is recognized massively where it connects the students with learning resources limitlessly.

During the past ten years educational institutions have integrated Information Technology with advancements in the communication fields for their educational programs to improve the level of teaching and the learning capacities of the students. Advancements in the Internet technologies have introduced various learning mechanisms for the students to gather more knowledge collaboratively and collectively, which has changed the way of gaining knowledge and teaching.

Different advancements of the Internet and the telecommunication fields have allowed the people to utilize large amount of knowledge effectively, distributed around the world which is diverse. Sharing and manipulation of knowledge with distance interactivity in real time, where the teachers and the students are not seeing each other face to face. This is an enormous achievement that the society has gained by the use of IT technologies. People have introduced various Learning Management Systems (LMS) in order to overcome this problem of managing large information sources which currently play a remarkable role in an e-learning environment.

Virtual LMSs enable the teachers and tutors to manage diverse educational material in a much easier manner. The LMSs provide many different grading mechanisms on the course learning resources that can be used by teachers to view the outline performance of each student and see the final marks that the student has gained in the given activity on the course. Due to the differences in accessibility levels for the learning resources and study materials; it has become an unsolved problem to view the overall performance of each student in accordance with the behavior of the student which is indicated by the actual image of student learning capacity on the course module.