eLearning Hosting Providers
Comparative analysis of BigGyan, Remote
E-Learn Design Ltd.
Valeria Filipova
Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
valeria.filipova@gmail.com
10 February 2010
-Learn.net and
Presentation will cover
What is eLearning?
Learning Management System (LMS)
Open Source LMS
Commercial LMS
Moodle Vs Blackboard
Features of Moodle
Main Objective of the Study
Study - BigGyan, Remote
Findings
Suggestions
-Learn.net and E-Learn Design Ltd.
What is eLearning?
eLearning (or electronic learning or eLearning) is
that encompasses
all
forms of Technology-Enhanced
Learning (TEL) or very specific types of TEL such as
or Web-based learning. Nevertheless, the term does
have a universally accepted definition.
The term eLearning is ambiguous to those outside
eLearning industry, and even within its diverse disciplines
has different meanings to different people. For instance
companies, it often refers to the strategies that use
company network to deliver training courses to employees
and lately in most Universities, eLearning is used to
a specific mode to attend a course or program of
where the students rarely or never meet face-to-face,
access on-campus educational facilities, because they
online.
a term
online
not
the
it
in
the
define
study
nor
study
Learning Management System (LMS)
A learning management system (LMS) is a software
application
for
the
administration, documentation,
tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom
and online events, eLearning programs, and training
content.
LMSs
cater
to
educational,
administrative,
deployment requirements. While an LMS for corporate
learning, for example, may share many characteristics
with a VLE, or virtual learning environment, used
educational institutions, they each meet unique needs
The virtual learning environment used by universities
colleges allow instructors to manage their courses
exchange information with students for a course that
most cases will last several weeks and will meet several
times during those weeks.
In the corporate set