Learning Content Management

A Learning Content Management system or LCMS is a multi-user environment which enables learning developers to create and store, reuse, manage, and deliver old and new digital and e-learning content. LCMS facilities allow their users to create and use digital learning content; and manage the creation, storage and delivery of learning content. The LCMS consists of:

• an authoring application or editors
• a learning object repository
• a dynamic delivery interface
• administration tools
  

A learning content management system is an application or technology that can be used to plan, as well as implement, and assess a learning process. In general, it provides the instructor(s) with a convenient way of creating and delivering content, as well as monitoring student participation, and assessing performance.

A learning content management usually provides the students the opportunity to use its many interactive features including peer group discussions, video conferencing, etc, to enable more efficient informal learning. They also have questions banks that create and enable more powerful assessments and increase learning efficiency by aggregating questions, and centralizing the assessment item management. They also enable sharing. In addition,
 

• They provide instantly usable folder-based systems
• They have easy to use drag-and-drop controls
• They deliver standardized assessments across courses
• They enable powerful search routines making it easy to find questions
• Every assessment is updated

 
Sophisticated content sharing and reuse are the biggest pluses of Learning Content Management. Creating quality learning content involves the investment of a significant amount of time and effort. Learning Content Management provides the ability to share and reuse learning objects very easily, across courses, departments, schools, campuses, and even institutions, reducing the costs of content development and eliminating the duplication of effort, while promoting quality across curricula.

Learning Content Management also 

• Provides links to reusable stored content
• Saves time
• Eliminates versioning problems
• Provides easy search and browse capabilities
• Supports the creation of new learning objectives
• Enables the editing of existing learning objectives
• Keeps content development costs at a minimum
• Allows users and learners to share questions
• Efficiently manages large courses with high enrolment