E-learning courses hosted on a learning management system need to overcome the danger of students copying, giving unoriginal responses to questions, or simply reiterating the responses of other students.
From online training and learning content to the use of discussion boards and other Web 2.0 tools for educational purposes, there is a real possibility in many contexts that students are simply looking up the answers, copying and pasting responses, and learning nothing. Depending on the content, it may have a profound impact on the course's effectiveness.
Education in its online form must undergo some critical growing pains. One of the most common complaints I hear from e-learning students is that courses are simply too easy. Peer originality becomes dubious. And for educators, student effort becomes harder to monitor. Or does it?
What we really need is smarter e-learning design and deployment. It's not enough to create good content, get it out there, and expect students to be engaged. The effective use of Web 2.0 programs, learning management systems, and online courseware in an online learning context requires strategy.
This strategy can be built into the course, developed and maintained by a course administrator or educator, and/or enforced in a face-to-face learning environment if one exists. Tools like Coggno's Activities feature allows LMS administrators to track student activity. Another strategy is to build exams that effectively test student knowledge, rather than asking them to solve problems and post them on a board.
If you're choosing a learning management system for e-learning training or a virtual classroom, choose one based on its built-in solutions to an evolving world.
Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
LMS Activities Feature Helps You Train and Protect Employees
It's something many LMS students often lament; depending on their position, they may need to undergo compliance training. However, greater complaints down the line can be prevented if compliance training is completed in a serious and effective way.
Compliance training may cover issues ranging from sexual harassment prevention, workplace safety, cultural sensitivity, or respect in the workplace. Oftentimes, to someone taking mandatory compliance training, a topic may feel like common sense, or not worth his or her time. This common attitude towards required training can lead to learning content skimming, skipping of entire sections, and ultimately, guessing on exams and retaking quizzes until the correct answers are guessed.
Students' lack of interest in a training topic is often due to a bland training course, as well as the sheer fact that the course is mandatory. This lack of interest can lead to students' failure to process the learning content, and to spend the time required to truly learn the material. But gaps in employee understanding on key issues (such as those listed above) which compliance training covers can end with trouble down the road. For this reason, supervisors are smart to ensure that trainees are completing course material correctly, and spending the appropriate amount of time on each section.
Coggno has responded to this problem with its addition of the Activities feature, which allows LMS administrators to track in real-time student activity on the LMS online course.
The Activities feature also helps educators integrate LMS courses and Web 2.0 into the classroom.
Unfortunately, online education tools for children and teenagers are sometimes avoided because of supervision issues. In some cases, mishandling and/or lack of supervision of online programs can even become a source of litigation against educators and schools. Because of the hazards involved with including Web 2.0 technologies in many LMS and classroom learning systems, educators who use them must take extra precautions, supervising the use of these technologies to ensure that students stay on track.
Coggno's Activities feature is one solution for the problems of supervision in LMS e-learning programs at school.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
Compliance training may cover issues ranging from sexual harassment prevention, workplace safety, cultural sensitivity, or respect in the workplace. Oftentimes, to someone taking mandatory compliance training, a topic may feel like common sense, or not worth his or her time. This common attitude towards required training can lead to learning content skimming, skipping of entire sections, and ultimately, guessing on exams and retaking quizzes until the correct answers are guessed.
Students' lack of interest in a training topic is often due to a bland training course, as well as the sheer fact that the course is mandatory. This lack of interest can lead to students' failure to process the learning content, and to spend the time required to truly learn the material. But gaps in employee understanding on key issues (such as those listed above) which compliance training covers can end with trouble down the road. For this reason, supervisors are smart to ensure that trainees are completing course material correctly, and spending the appropriate amount of time on each section.
Coggno has responded to this problem with its addition of the Activities feature, which allows LMS administrators to track in real-time student activity on the LMS online course.
The Activities feature also helps educators integrate LMS courses and Web 2.0 into the classroom.
Unfortunately, online education tools for children and teenagers are sometimes avoided because of supervision issues. In some cases, mishandling and/or lack of supervision of online programs can even become a source of litigation against educators and schools. Because of the hazards involved with including Web 2.0 technologies in many LMS and classroom learning systems, educators who use them must take extra precautions, supervising the use of these technologies to ensure that students stay on track.
Coggno's Activities feature is one solution for the problems of supervision in LMS e-learning programs at school.
Design and deliver robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, potent and affordable.
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