Title:	LMS EVOLUTION TO IMPROVE USE RESULTS
Author(s):	Paloma Moreno-clari , Darío Roig-garcía , Salvador Roca-marquina
ISBN:	978-972-8924-83-6
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2009
Edition:	V II, 2
Keywords:	Learning Management Systems; Technology Enhanced Learning; Usage Statistics; Open Source Software Evolution; Hardware Evolution
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	126
Last Page:	130
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Technological and pedagogical recent developments have caused an exponential increase on the demand for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) based education, and a revolution in the form we understand the teaching and learning process. This has, in turn, led to the development of learning platforms to enhance learning. Nowadays most universities provide their academic community with some form of learning management system (LMS). To achieve the optimal use of such type of systems, they must integrate all their academic community and preexisting applications at its institutions. Although a lot of effort has been put into deploying these platforms, the usage statistics that they generally provide are not generally processed to optimize their use within a specific context or institution (or confronted with quality or innovation indexes to produce useful feedback information). This paper, centered in the Universitat de València (UV) particular case, exposes how the evaluation results of the LMS use can help to decide and introduce hardware and software changes to continue improving technology enhanced learning process. It briefly exposes the Universitat de València’s integrated LMS and the study of use carried out at this institution. But it is mainly centered on the consequent distributed computing hardware and open source software evolution based on evaluation results, to be adequate to community requirements and to improve future usage statistics.
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