Learner-Centred Learning Management Systems (LMS): A Theoretical Framework

The strategic ‘learner-centred’ model to the management of learning is now budding in many institutions and novel breed of ‘Learning Management System’ (LMS) is being used to manage the teaching and learning process. It has become a common phenomenon that government, private, corporate and non-government institutions are profoundly implementing LMS in their teaching and learning process. The plausible added value of e-learning or technology enabled learning or web-enabled learning is very high as compared to the conventional face-to-face learning. In the web-enabled learning environment, learner would become more active, self-reflective and collaborative. It is very important that the designer should consider the learners, their preferences and requirements, at the very inception of the development of the system. The present article attempts to disentangle some of the theoretical framework for LMS from literature and also attempts to propose a feasible theoretical model for the design and development of LMS.