Abstract

Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become the principal resource for the distribution of educational material and collaboration among lecturers and students in Higher Education. The potential of these platforms does not limit to a simple manager of contents, but they also offer a wide range of tools that support the development of different methodologies according to the learning modality, namely on-campus, blended or online. This work analyzes the use of LMS and the interactions with their different tools from the lecturers' point of view, in order to detect possible incidents, check the tools' utility and evaluate their complexity. All these metrics represent valuable information to the Degree Coordinators, if they are presented in a suitable manner, to detect and resolve deficiencies in the methodology. For the analysis of the teaching activity two methods are employed: (1) surveys, to measure the subjective perception of lecturers when using LMS tools; and (2) visual analysis of the real lecturer's activity through OnlineData, a graphical analytic tool developed as part of our work to monitor LMS tools metrics. The results of both methods show differences among the perceived self-usage and actual usage, especially for the e-learning methodologies

Citation

Cantabella, M., López, B., Caballero, A. & Muñoz, A. (2018). Analysis and Evaluation of Lecturers' Activity in Learning Management Systems: Subjective and Objective Perceptions. Interactive Learning Environments, 26(7), 911-923. Retrieved August 7, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/192077/.

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Keywords

• College Faculty
• College Students
• Comparative Analysis
• Computer Attitudes
• electronic learning
• EVALUATION METHODS
• Integrated Learning Systems
• Learning Modalities
• online courses
• teacher attitudes
• teaching methods