Learning management system

In 2000, the University of Zurich revolutionized the concept of digitized learning by introducing the first open-source LMS called OLAT.

It is a web application – a so-called Learning Management System that supports any kind of online learning, teaching, and tutoring with few educational restrictions.

There are a variety of integration strategies for embedding content into LMSs, including AICC, xAPI (also called 'Tin Can'), SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) and LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability).

Its primary purpose is to connect learning systems such as a learning management system (LMS) with external service tools in a standard way across learning systems.

In the U.S. higher education market as of fall 2018, the top three LMSs by number of institutions were Blackboard (31%), Canvas (30%), and Moodle (18%).

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

In the U.S. higher education market as of fall 2018, the top three LMSs by number of institutions were Blackboard (31%), Canvas (30%), and Moodle (18%).

It is the developer of the Canvas learning management system, which is a comprehensive cloud-native software package that competes with such systems as Blackboard Learning System, Moodle, D2L and Sakai Project.

Many LMSs are now offered as SaaS (software as a service), with hosting provided by the vendors.

SaaS has become a common delivery model for many business applications, including office software, messaging software, payroll processing software, DBMS software, management software, CAD software, development software, gamification, virtualization, accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), Management Information Systems (MIS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), invoicing, human resource management (HRM), talent acquisition, learning management systems, content management (CM), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and service desk management.

Vendors focused on mid-sized companies (200+ employees) include Litmos, Halogen Software, LatitudeLearning, ADP, Docebo, and Workday.

Based in Saline, Michigan, Latitude Learning developed, hosts and provides access to a learning management system (LMS), which delivers and manages Web-based e-learning courses and tracks student progress.

In 2017, MarketResearch released a report, “Global Learning Management Market Trends, Applications, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast: 2017 to 2026,” which identified "key players" in the global learning management market, including Blackboard Inc., Cornerstone OnDemand, D2L Corporation, IBM, McGraw-Hill Education, Netdimensions Ltd., Pearson plc, SABA Software, Inc., SAP SE, and Xerox.

It is known for Blackboard Learn, a learning management system.

Vendors focused on mid-sized companies (200+ employees) include Litmos, Halogen Software, LatitudeLearning, ADP, Docebo, and Workday.

Docebo is a software as a service artificial intelligence platform for e-learning, also known as a learning management system.

A year later, the LMS development industry welcomed Microsoft and its first SCORM-certified learning suite SharePoint. There are several standards for creating and integrating complex content into an LMS, including AICC, SCORM, xAPI and Learning Tools Interoperability.

It defines communications between client side content and a host system (called "the run-time environment"), which is commonly supported by a learning management system.

In the corporate market in 2015, the six largest LMS providers constitute approximately 50% of the market, with SuccessFactors Learning, Saba Software, Voniz Inc and SumTotal Systems being the four largest providers.

Plateau – SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Plateau on April 26, 2011, enabling the company to enter the learning management systems market. Plateau Systems developed one of the industry’s first Learning Management Systems (LMS), systems usually used by Human Resources departments for the management and delivery of learning and training across organizations.

Competency management system

Competency (or competence) management systems (CMS or CompMS – because CMS is a more common homonym) are usually associated with, and may include, a learning management system (LMS).

The history of the application of computers to education is filled with broadly descriptive terms such as computer-managed instruction (CMI), and integrated learning systems (ILS), computer-based instruction (CBI), computer-assisted instruction (CAI), and computer-assisted learning (CAL).

Educational technology for learning management systems (LMS), such as tools for student and curriculum management, and education management information systems (EMIS).

List of learning management systems

The following is a list of learning management systems (LMS).

There are several standards for creating and integrating complex content into an LMS, including AICC, SCORM, xAPI and Learning Tools Interoperability.

In 1993, the AICC produced what is widely regarded as the first runtime interoperability specification for Learning Management Systems (LMS) a.k.a. CMI Systems.

There are several standards for creating and integrating complex content into an LMS, including AICC, SCORM, xAPI and Learning Tools Interoperability.

LRSs can exist within traditional learning management systems (LMSs) or on their own.

Competency-based management

CBM helps talent acquisition, performance management and learning management systems to be more effective by assessing employees' skills and competencies.

In 2017, MarketResearch released a report, “Global Learning Management Market Trends, Applications, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast: 2017 to 2026,” which identified "key players" in the global learning management market, including Blackboard Inc., Cornerstone OnDemand, D2L Corporation, IBM, McGraw-Hill Education, Netdimensions Ltd., Pearson plc, SABA Software, Inc., SAP SE, and Xerox.

LAMS – Learning Activity Management System

The LAMS Tool Contract is an architecture to allow Tool Interoperability across Learning Management Systems (LMS).

Virtual learning environment

Computerized learning systems have been referred to as electronic educational technology, e-learning, learning platform or learning management system.

Learning objects

Before any institution invests a great deal of time and energy into building high-quality e-learning content (which can cost over $10,000 per classroom hour), it needs to consider how this content can be easily loaded into a Learning Management System.

Many users of LMSs use an authoring tool to create content, which is then hosted on an LMS.

Learning management system

Learning Record Store (LRS)

An LRS can exist inside a traditional learning management system (LMS), or on its own.

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.

The learning management system concept emerged directly from e-Learning.

The first known document of correspondence teaching dates back to 1723, through the advertisement in the Boston Gazette of Caleb Phillips, professor of shorthand, offering teaching materials and tutorials.