Factor Wisely when Opting for Learning Management System Training

One advantage of choosing to deliver training online via a learning management system or LCMS is the cost benefit.

Savings from online learning will come from many sources, including the relatively low cost of materials, travel, seat time, and administrative costs. For example, it generally takes at least three times as long to build e-learning material than it goes to create face-to-face training. However, depending on your needs, online training is typically quite cost-effective compared with face-to-face training.

The time spent by the learner in the learning environment (aka "seat time"), is one important source of savings when going the online route. Depending on the learning material, online learning usually has a pronounced advantage over classroom training in this regard. Research suggests a roughly 50% reduction in seat time when a course is performed online. This depends on the content, of course, but for most types of learning material it applies.

Your ability to change the format of learning material into many kinds of media (video, audio, text, etc.) is inherently time-saving. For instance, content is read about twice as fast as compared to its spoken form (for example, written text versus a lecture). Learning management system training, rather than allowing someone to do all the talking, allows learners to just read about it. Here one might argue for the interactive component of a classroom learning environment. Not to worry---we'll get to that in a minute.

Second, think about your audience when opting for or against online learning. Do your students already have experience with online learning? How can you make the training experience an enjoyable and effective one for your students? In what ways do you expect them to benefit from online training? And finally, how will a learning management system help you realize these objectives?

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New College Course Material Delivered by Learning Management System

Colleges nationwide have begun to implement a revolutionary system for delivery curriculum to their students with the Learning Management System. Specialty universities have already established successful distant learning programs that enable students to earn their degree by attending courses online. Interactive and state of the art videos and modules have been created to deliver the material in numerous different ways.


A current Internet Marketing Major, Jim Miller, tells us about his experience at Full Sail University, based out of Orlando, while he resides on the West Coast working full time and going to school. “It’s great because class is wherever you are. The convenience and flexibility of when you attend your class enables you to work your education around your career, which helps facilitate both endeavors”.


The Learning Management system provides a self service platform in which students can receive help in courses or on material they may have difficulties with. A 24/7 mentorship has been provided for students to receive that needed support to aid their comprehension on their assignments. However, with every upside there is usually a downside. Depending on the course or the Professor, requirements such as group projects, may cause difficulties as students struggle trying to set up a collaborative times factoring in different time zones, working schedules and less motivated students who opt to pull any of the weight for the projects. With that said, evaluations are constantly performed to ensure that the set up of the curriculum is effective and successful.


When asked to compare the differences between the quality of the Learning Management System in regards to curriculum and teaching of “in classroom” courses in comparison to online courses, Jim Miller states, “The only difference that I have experienced is that you are not physically in the classroom. I feel the quality of the curriculum and the concepts I am being taught are held at the same standard and uphold the same quality at any other University attending an in-person course.”Although other Colleges may not have implemented the all inclusive Learning Management System, signs of online learning components implemented into new curriculum are starting to become increasingly normative.