WK1 Project - LMO Overview

Distance learning is a concept educators have grasped ever since the printing press. A CMS is a course management system, an online platform managing student classes and grades. Full Sail Online is a good example of a CMS. An LMS is a learning management system and is used more commercially than CMS's. This kind of system has more fleibility than a CMS and is set up to be used in the commercial field as far as training. An LCMS is a way to incorporate more training modules and manage more online educational systems. There are many acronyms, but they all take advantage of the current forms of technology that allow an expedient transfer of information to and evaluation from a student.

In recent years, before Full Sail, I was introduced to the online Cisco Academy when I was pegged to teach Intro. to Computer Maintenance and Repair for high school students so that they can receive a professional A+ certification. I had spent a couple years already being a tech, so it was no problem to get myself certified to teach the subject, but in the event I could not, Cisco's CMS would get me up to speed. When I started teaching the course, each student has his/her own log-in and individual sections and chapters would be delivered and tested. The student's grades would be kept online as well. The students' log-ins and records would be kept within their system indefinitely building towards the students' careers in the field.

I also spent 8 years in the Army before Full Sail. There were many LMS's that our company would have to complete. These were less built around specific courses and tracks and more around specific skill areas. With my experiences with CMS's and LMS's and Full Sail in general, I think ideally the military should come up with some game training proposed in the following video:



I believe the next step further than just asking multiple choice questions, keeping grades, and providing a platform to turn stuff in is creating a virtual interactive world in which to train employees, students, and the military. This will take students a step beyond the typical, convention classroom and education and give them a purgatory-type training session into the new world.