A Modular Open Architecture to Increase Collaboration in Learning Management Systems
Menendez, Victor, Prieto, Manuel E. · 2008
One of the goals of Learning Management Systems (LMS) is motivate the collaboration among students, mainly to enrich theirs learning experience. In this article we sense beforehand the results of a study on the mechanics of collaboration in a LMS for discover usability problems within workspaces shared by distance learners. Nevertheless that the used methodology serves preferably to be applied in groupware systems, it is used also for the evaluation of LMS. Main results of the evaluation indicates that an important factor for the strengthening of the collaboration mechanisms in LMS s, is to be able to rely on a modular and opened architecture that allows extensibility.