The LMS (Learning Management System) deals mainly with the learner. This system is designed to take charge of the learner’s journey through the instructional gantlet. Behind the scenes the administration of training programs and the context of the learning program to track course delivery and scheduling, learner skills and skill gaps, test creation and administration, and even the collection learning data and profile data of the learner. This means that the system must also be in charge of the administration of scheduling, instructor-led training and learning collaboration.
Mark West's reading from Week 2
MARK'S CAPSTONE of LEARNING
(Really it's the capstone on top of the very tall William Wallace Monument in Scotland.)
Where, after 5 visits to the Monument, my knees finally made it to the top level.
They say if that center part wasn't in, the entire structure could come apart.
Sometimes our lives can feel the same way, One important thing holds us together!
Hmmm Sounds like a good lesson to learn, doesn't it?
In reading Mark's blog this week, I was able to read more about the very things that I can still easily confuse. It is a very good thing to read and instill this in me. It would probably make more since to watch each of these in a small example. When something is confusing to me, I work better as a visual, aural and tactile learner. When one doesn't make me just "get it", I do better to put either a seond or all three ways in to learn better. I seem to be at that point. While I'm actually reading, I understand, yet, when I walk away from it for any length of time, doing something not related to this class, I begin to be confused. I do NOT like being a confused person. It is not my nature to walk around being confused about most things.
When I was learning music theory in college, as I never had any in HS, I was doing fine when learning binary, ternary and rondo forms. They were easy to understand with no problem. When we got to sonata form, I had a little more to study.
Learning the difference in Exposition, Development and Recopituation was not so difficult, until I had to know the difference in A and A', etc. When reading about it, I was confused, but when our teacher was in front of us, with a sonata playing, the score blown up so we could all see the examples, we not only heard about it, we could see the notes and the change in them, and for people who still had a problem in understanding, you could hear and see the difference. If that wasn't enough, just take out my clarinet and play it, and when it reached the recopitulation, it was easy to understand.
I think it is the same when dealing with learning content. Seeing examples, hearing of examples would make it much easier to understand. Of course, I understand what Mark is saying. He says it well, with clear understanding. It's just that earlier today, I was trying to explain what I was learning, and after my initial beginning of the alphabet soup beginning, I began getting less and less clear and more and more muddy. So, I am hoping for a few examples that will bring all of these management systems.
It's like good spaghetti sauce. I make the kind that I simmer it for hours, to mix all the seasonings together and it's so good. When I go somewhere and someone made sauce in 20 minutes and say, this is my really good, always works in a pinch sauce, I think, "You have no idea!" Well, learning about these, although I still need more to make me be very understanding of each one, I know they are they way to go. I know each makes a big difference in it's own area. And I feel like if I were to say, well, they are just management systems, so what? That is when someone would be saying (like with the spaghetti sauce), "You have no idea!"
Mark, thanks for writing about them. I appreciate it.
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