Web – based distributed learning management system Prof., Dr. hab. Yuriy Rashkevych, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013,

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Prof., Dr. hab. Yuriy Rashkevych, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine, Phone: +380322 744143, Fax: +380322 744143, [email protected]

Dr. Dmytro Peleshko, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine, Phone: +38032 2582228, [email protected]

Web – based distributed learning management system

Dr. hab. Yuriy Rashkevych, Dr. Dmytro Peleshko Lviv Polytechnic National University

ICT in teaching process

Information distribution, publication included;

Communication between teachers and students and among students themselves;

Organizing the work of students in groups - co-discussions, co-projects etc;

Organizing the information and resources search – search engines, multimedia databases etc;

Learning process specific needs - interactive consulting, tasks for self-dependent work, tests, video-conferences within the lectures; and

Integrated system of organizing and carrying out the teaching process – management system created with the use of web-technologies.

flexibility in place of receiving education – possibility to learn partially outside the main university campus;

flexibility of educational programmes - the possibility of choosing certain subject due to previous educational and job experiences;

flexibility of cooperation ways during studies – not all students should work in groups, not all of them should stay together while performing a task;

flexibility in communication forms within the educational subject – students and teachers apart from the conventional and traditional face to face way of communication should have other ways; and

flexibility in choosing the art of studies and methodological materials – extension of the access to information means.

The main spheres of ICT Flexibility of educational programmes



The main components of LMS

LMS components

Department management: Educational General informative(marketing):

Receiving the information on subjects

Receiving the information about teachers

Receiving the information about students

Distribution of the information to the workers

Preparation and submission of the theoretical material

Submission of the practical material

Cooperation organizing

Management of the educational process:

Roster Automated assessment

Submission of the general information about the

department

Submission of the general information on subjects

Submission of the general information on majors

Layer of provision



Scheme of LMS logical structure

History

Teachers

Information about speciality

KN

Publishing printing industry

LP

Informational management

system

News

Discussions

Educational plans

Subject1 .Subject N Start page

Discussions

sions

News E-mail

Timetable

Subject interface

Goal and task

Listeners/attendees

Connection with other Subject

Lection content

List of laboratory works

List of practical works

Teaching – methodological

materials

Info on subject



The main tasks of the system

learning process and sub-department management simplifying (computer automation );

widening the learning process possibilities through embedding multimedia and simulation options for presenting information;

simplifying the teacher work from the point of the learning process management through automated results summed up by month/semester/ academic year and from the point of giving the lessons, providing all the students with teaching left outs conducting the teaching process on the basis of made and known in advance curriculum etc; and

providing the sub-department advertisement and marketing.



The software products have been used while creating LMS

Operational system Microsoft Server 2000; Database server: Microsoft SQL Server 2000; Web server: MS Internet Information Server 5.0; and Technologies, programming languages and protocols: HTML, ASP, Active X, e

directory, VBscript, Javascript, sQL, SSL, HTTPS.



Screen-shorts of LMS

Screen-short of registration Screen-short of Learning plan



Screen-shorts of LMS

Screen-short of student workplace

Screen-short of roster



To the problems of the system implementation

Existing stereotype concerning lections and practical works; Complexity of starting using the system. Here the necessity of carrying out

special trainings for the teachers computer illiterate and costs of bringing the courses into the electronic form should be referred;

Complexity of carrying out all the kinds of control except control based on current text; and

Providing the students with the technical conditions for self-dependent work.



To the main advantages

Possibility of bringing various volumes of information to the user; Production and development of self-dependent skills; Bringing the learning process forum static to dynamic, it means the possibility of

quick input of new material and new methodological papers at once for all for all students and the possibility to apply the new approaches to presenting the information;

Principle securing: studying anywhere and any time; and Possibility of extending the system.

Documents

Web – based distributed learning management system Prof., Dr. hab. Yuriy Rashkevych, Lviv Polytechnic National University, S.Bandera str.12, Lviv, 79013,