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LMS is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic educational technology (also called e-learning) education courses or training programs (See the Wikipedia article on The History of Virtual Learning Environments: pre 1940s – 2012)

Coates, James & Baldwin (2005) discuss some of the drivers behind LMS adoption:

• increases efficiency of teachers: reduces course management overheads, reduces physical space, expedites info delivery
• promise of enriching student learning; accessibility (24).
• student expectations of using advanced technologies
• competitive pressure/perceived advantage
• proposed as key to addressing massive/increasing demands for greater access to higher ed./ vehicle for reform
• “culture shift” (25), control/regulation of teaching

Coates, James & Baldwin argue for a need for “focused discussion and debate” (32). Don’t limit decisions to “checklist evaluations” (33); and recognise the need for diversity of academic stakeholders. “It is important that institutions adopt and deploy LMS in ways which are open, inclusive and educationally informed” (33). Source: Andrea Beaudin’s annotation.

Porto (2015) points out the influence of social media on learning, which leads to the development of new types of LMSs, which blur the line between personal and academic worlds.