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Impact of IT in E-Learning from any location with internet access.
Introduction to use of IT in teaching and There have been many studies showing that
learning eLearning students retain the material to a
E-Learning is learning by utilizing significantly greater degree than face-to-face
electronic technologies to access instructor led classes. The content delivery is
educational curriculum outside of a traditional consistent and can be easily repeated if
classroom. It refers to a course, program or needed to gain a better understanding.
degree delivered completely online.
Learning Management System
There are many terms used to describe A learning management system
learning that is delivered online, via the (LMS) is a software application for the
internet, ranging from Distance Education, to administration, documentation, tracking,
computerized electronic learning, online reporting, and delivery of educational
learning, internet learning and many others. courses, training programs, or learning and
development programs.
We define eLearning as courses that are
specifically delivered via the internet to The learning management system
somewhere other than the classroom where concept emerged directly from e-Learning.
the professor is teaching. It is not a course Although the first LMS appeared in the higher
delivered via a DVD or CD-ROM, video tape or education sector, the majority of the LMSs
over a television channel. today focus on the corporate market. Learning
Management Systems make up the largest
It is interactive in that you can also segment of the learning system market. The
communicate with your teachers, professors or first introduction of the LMS was in the late
other students in your class. Sometimes it is 1990s.
delivered live, where you can “electronically”
raise your hand and interact in real time and Learning management systems were designed
sometimes it is a lecture that has been to identify training and learning gaps, utilizing
prerecorded. analytical data and reporting. LMSs are
focused on online learning delivery but
There is always a teacher or professor support a range of uses, acting as a platform
interacting or communicating with you and for online content, including courses, both
grading your participation, your assignments asynchronous based and synchronous based.
and your tests.
An LMS may offer classroom management for
Benefits instructor-led training or a flipped classroom,
Your schedule, your pace, your place. If you used in higher education, but not in the
can maintain the necessary self-discipline, the corporate space.
benefits of eLearning are almost too numerous
to count. You can cover the material when you The top three LMSs by number of institutions
have time, go over it as often as you need, all were
without traveling to the classroom.
Blackboard
There are no parking problems or expenses, Canvas
transportation fees, athletic fees, housing and Moodle
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Apple Classroom
The same three systems led in terms of Classroom is an iOS app designed for the iPad
number of students enrolled, but Canvas by Apple Inc. which allows teachers to view,
slightly surpassed Blackboard. Worldwide, the remote control, and transfer files to students
picture is different, with Moodle having over in their classes. The app is designed as a
50% of market share in Europe, Latin America, companion for Schoolwork, which allows
and Oceania. teachers to assign activities to students.
Moodle Apple Schoolwork
Moodle (acronym for Modular Object- Schoolwork is an iOS app designed for the
Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is iPad first announced by Apple Inc. during their
a free and open-source learning management edtech event in March 2018 and released in
system (LMS) written in PHP and distributed June 2018. The free app allows teachers to
under the GNU General Public License. distribute documents, iBook files, web links,
Developed on academic principles, Moodle is and assignments through ClassKit with due
used for dates.
blended learning
distance education Students can hand-in those assignments via
flipped classroom the app for teachers to view and provide
other e-learning projects in schools, feedback via the app. The app is designed as a
universities, workplaces and other companion for Classroom, which allows
sectors. teachers to view what students are doing on
their screen. ClassKit allows developers of
With customizable management features, it is educational apps to create links for specific
used to create private websites with online function in their application, which teachers
courses for educators and trainers to achieve can subsequently assign to students. It also
learning goals. relays the results of the student's actions back
to the Schoolwork app to be shared with the
Edmodo teacher.
Edmodo is an educational technology
company offering a communication, Blackboard Learn
collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 Blackboard Learn (previously the
schools and teachers. The Edmodo network Blackboard Learning Management System)
enables teachers to share content, distribute is a virtual learning environment and learning
quizzes, assignments, and manage management system developed by
communication with students, colleagues, and Blackboard Inc.
parents.
It is Web-based server software which features
Edmodo is very teacher-centric in their design course management, customizable open
and philosophy: students and parents can only architecture, and scalable design that allows
join Edmodo if invited to do so by a teacher. integration with student information systems
Teachers and students spend large amounts of and authentication protocols. It may be
time on the platform, both in and out of the installed on local servers or hosted by
classroom. Blackboard ASP Solutions. Its main purposes
are to add online elements to courses
traditionally delivered face-to-face and to
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develop completely online courses with few or style system teaches developmental skills
no face-to-face meetings. through real-time feedback. The application,
which has been translated into 35 languages,
Canvas has been used in 180 countries and by 90% of
Instructure Inc. was created in order to support the school districts in the United States.
the continued development of a new learning
management system (LMS) originally named ClassDojo was launched in August 2011 and
Instructure. Once incorporated, the founders was initially funded in the ImagineK12
changed the name of the software to Canvas. education seed accelerator.
The Utah-based company tested the LMS at D2L
several local schools including Utah State D2L, formerly Desire2Learn, is a global cloud
University and Brigham Young University software company with offices in the United
before officially launching Canvas. Canvas is States, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Europe,
now used by more than 3,000 universities, and Brazil. It is the developer of the
school districts, and institutions around the Brightspace learning management system,
world. which is a cloud-based software used by
schools, higher education, and businesses for
Canvas was built using Ruby on Rails as the online and blended classroom learning. D2L is
web application framework backed by a also the developer of Open Courses a Massive
PostgreSQL database. It incorporates JQuery, Open Online Course platform.
HTML5, and CSS3 to provide a modern user
interface. OAuth is used to provide limited Google Classroom
access to a user's information on certain social Google Classroom is a free web service,
media sites like Facebook and Twitter to allow developed by Google for schools, that aims to
for collaboration between sites. Canvas simplify creating, distributing, and grading
operates as a software as a service using assignments in a paperless way. The primary
Amazon Web Services in the "Cloud". purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline
the process of sharing files between teachers
In 2011, Canvas launched their iOS app, and in and students.
2013, their Android app, enabling mobile
access to the Canvas learning platform. The Google Classroom combines Google Drive for
apps were eventually split into Canvas Student assignment creation and distribution, Google
and Canvas Teacher, separating features for Docs, Sheets and Slides for writing, Gmail for
students and instructors. communication, and Google Calendar for
scheduling.
In 2016, Canvas launched Canvas Parent, their
mobile app for parents, for both iOS and Students can be invited to join a class through
Android, allowing parents of K–12 students a private code, or automatically imported from
stay informed on their children's assignments, a school domain. Each class creates a separate
grades and overall schooling. folder in the respective user's Drive, where the
student can submit work to be graded by a
ClassDojo teacher.
ClassDojo is a classroom communication app
used to share reports between parents and Mobile apps, available for iOS and Android
teachers. Teachers track student behavior and devices, let users take photos and attach to
upload photos or videos. The gamification assignments, share files from other apps, and
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access information offline. Teachers can management system (CMS), the cloud-based
monitor the progress for each student, and platform provides tools needed to manage an
after being graded, teachers can return work online classroom.
along with comments.
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Microsoft Classroom The term academic service may refer to a
Microsoft Classroom was an online blended wide variety of instructional methods,
learning platform for schools that aimed to educational services, or academic resources
simplify grading assignments and student provided to students in the effort to help
communication in a paperless way. It was them to accelerate their learning progress,
introduced for Office 365 Education catch up with their peers, meet learning
subscribers in April 2016. standards, or generally succeed in educational
On May 18, 2017 Microsoft announced the Institutions.
retirement of Microsoft Classroom, which was
completed on January 31, 2018. Some features When the term is used in educational contexts
of Microsoft Classroom became part of without qualification, specific examples, or
Microsoft Teams in Office 365 Education. additional explanation, it may be difficult to
determine precisely what “academic service” is
Otus referring to.
Otus is an educational technology company Academic Services provided by top Indian
providing a learning management system, Organizations are:
data warehouse and many classroom
management tools for K-12 students, teachers, INFLIBNET Centre (Information and Library
parents, and administrators. Network Centre) is an autonomous Inter-
University Centre of the University Grants
Otus was nominated as a finalist of two 2016 Commission (UGC) of India under Ministry of
Codie awards in the "Best Classroom HRD (MHRD) located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Management System" and "Best K-12 Course
or Learning Management Solution" categories, The centre was initially started as a national
one 2018 Codie award for "Best Student project under IUCAA in March, 1991. It
Assessment Solution", and two 2019 Codie became an independent Inter-University
awards for "Best Data Solution" and "Best Centre in June 1996.
Administrative Solution". Otus was a finalist in
EdTech Digest's 2016 "District Data Solution" INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing
and "Learning Management System" university libraries in India and connecting
categories. Otus co-founder Chris Hull was them as well as information centres in the
also recently announced as one of the National country through a nationwide high speed data
School Boards Association's "20 to Watch network using the state-of-art technologies
Educators for 2016". for the optimum utilization of information.
INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in
Schoology promoting scholarly communication among
Schoology is a social networking service and academicians and researchers in India.
virtual learning environment for K-12 school
and higher education institutions that allows NPTEL
users to create, manage, and share academic National Programme on Technology
content. Also known as a learning Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is an initiative
management system (LMS) or course funded by Ministry of Human Resource and
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Development, Government of India and Research & Development
coordinated by IIT Madras and Other IITs. Capacity Building
The central idea is to put recorded lectures
taught by IIT professors for a particular course
on its youtube channel where students across
the globe can freely access it. It is already the
most viewed educational youtube channel and
largest online repository in the world of
courses in engineering, basic sciences and
selected humanities and social sciences
subjects.
NICNET
National Informatics Centre (NIC) was
established in 1976, and has since emerged as
a “prime builder” of e-Government / e-
Governance applications up to the grassroots
level as well as a promoter of digital
opportunities for sustainable development.
NIC, through its ICT Network, “NICNET”, has
institutional linkages with all the Ministries
/Departments of the Central Government, 36
State Governments/ Union Territories, and
about 708 District Administrations of India.
NIC has been instrumental in steering e-
Government/e-Governance applications in
government ministries/departments at the
Centre, States, Districts and Blocks, facilitating
improvement in government services, wider
transparency, promoting decentralized
planning and management, resulting in better
efficiency and accountability to the people of
India.
“Informatics-led-development” programme of
the government has been spearheaded by NIC
to derive competitive advantage by
implementing ICT applications in social &
public administration. The following major
activities are being undertaken:
Setting up of ICT Infrastructure
Implementation of National and State
Level e-Governance Projects/Products
Consultancy to the Government
departments
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