Virtual Learning Environments have been the center of attention in the last few decades and help educatorstremendously with providing students with educational resources. Since artificial intelligence was used for educational proposes, learning management system developers showed much interest in making their products smarter and more intelligent. Nevertheless, the questions of what an intelligent learning management system (ILSM) is and which tools and features are needed to make such system intelligent, are not clearly answered, therefore educational institutes do not have a proper tool to decide upon the degree of intelligence they need for their LMSs. This paper proposes a prevalent, thorough definition of "Intelligent Learning Management Systems", and the design of a fuzzy model to measure the intelligence of these systems. In order to devise a comprehensive definition of an Intelligent Learning Management System, experts from around the world were consulted. Following that, different proposed Intelligent Learning Management Systems were studied, and forty-one features and tools were found and analyzed. After the analysis, experts' opinions were taken into account to rank these features. The paper proposes thirteen most significant features and tools as criteria to be used in fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a fuzzy model to measure the intelligence of Learning Management System.
Developing online training for health and medical researchers across multiple sites and institutions requires careful consideration to meet the needs of all learners. The Research Education and Training Program (RETP) has attempted to provide a suite of learning modules which are freely accessible to the 21 partner institutions of the Western Australian Health Translation Network (WAHTN). Many lessons have been learnt along the way of this multi-stage process. This paper aims to provide 12 tips in three key areas of online development: writing, online development and maintenance of learning modules. The tips provide a brief summary of these key areas to enable others who may be considering developing and delivering a broad scope of learning modules. This paper is written in the context of modules being delivered for the purpose of continuing professional development and not for high-stakes university courses or similar course requirements.Keywords: Training, education, online, curriculum, elearning Writing the course, Tip 1: Select a Learning Management System (LMS)/Web HostFor an online course to be accessible to potential participants at both home and work sites requires a simple and efficient technology to enable this to happen. A useful task is to complete a scoping exercise into the various Learning Management Systems/Web hosting services to specifically meet the needs of your course requirements as there are many LMSs and each offer varying degrees of abilities and costs. Ideally, the decision should not be limited by cost, available qualified staff or the current system's requirements and instead on need. However, in reality the choice may be limited by any number of these considerations (Anderson 2008).The RETP was part of a larger university system which already provided a Learning Management System. However, the LMS did not suit the needs of the online training we were providing as the RETP modules are not formal, education units of study and hence the requirements were less demanding. A quick scoping exercise to some well-known LMS providers and discussions with colleagues who were using similar providers were beneficial. It is important to see what online development they have already completed for other clients and the level of support they are willing to provide. The big tip here is get everything in writing from the LMS provider as to what exactly is provided and what the cost will be and any additional charges for additional tools known as 'plugins'. Do not get caught out by not doing your homework first. Our team went with a well-known LMS, and we have received excellent support throughout our journey. However, you have to implement strong pedagogical foundations to facilitate the most desirable use of the provided tools by the LMS (Govindasamy 2001). Tip 2: Project manage course developmentThe process of online course development does not happen overnight and requires careful planning and project management skills to ensure smooth delivery. If your unit budget allows you to employ a pro...
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