Your institution needs a learning management system (LMS) that does more than just deliver online learning. It should be an integral part of the partnership between you and your provider, helping to address the unique needs of your higher education institution (HEI). Your LMS should go beyond just providing education and instead start driving outcomes.
To help assess the quality of your system, here are five ways your LMS should be driving outcomes for your HEI.
Education is constantly evolving. This includes the newer emphasis on lifelong learning and micro-credentials aligned with specific, measurable learning outcomes as outlined by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Challenges with manual curriculum mapping and limited data on learning outcomes need to be resolved, something the right LMS should deliver.
A robust platform should offer integrated, curriculum-based mapping. This will help learners better understand where they have knowledge gaps and focus on the courses or programs they need to achieve their intended result.
Your LMS should also regularly provide the data needed to ensure your HEI is reaching the outcomes desired by your education. You should be getting timely reports to measure instructional effectiveness, such as:
Your institution should be using an LMS that can both support your students through lifelong learning and provide the data to show that your efforts are effective.
Even with an LMS in place, many HEIs still rely on multiple tools that aren’t integrated with the system to complete tasks. This can lead to data loss, a lag in digital innovation, increased workload and ultimately limited adoption.
It’s essential that your LMS offers a single, integrated platform with AI-powered automation to reduce faculty workload and simplify adoption. As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent, it’s important to have an LMS that seamlessly integrates with AI as well. These tools will further help to increase automation and faculty efficiencies so they can focus on their students.
When your LMS starts streamlining and automating manual processes, your faculty will start to see and feel its value and ultimately increase its adoption.
Your LMS needs to be more than just a system, its provider needs to partner with your HEI to understand your needs and help achieve them.
Without a robust LMS, HEIs can fall behind international standards—and their competitors, when it comes to attracting new students or being able to effectively retain existing ones.
Your LMS should be listening to your needs, including those of your students, and making innovative updates and changes to meet them. From making sure the platform is accessible to incorporating updates based on trends, your LMS should be able to keep up with the times.
Look for an LMS that enables blended and online learning, offers adaptive learning pathways and can offer micro-credentials to learners.
Not all students learn and study the same way. A powerful LMS provides HEIs with the opportunity to build personalized and flexible learning paths for students that cater to their needs.
Your LMS should include features like:
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By choosing an LMS that addresses individual learning preferences, students will be more engaged with their studies, leading to an increase in their success.
Creating personalized, engaging digital course content can present numerous challenges. Faculty strive to produce high-quality content, but it can be hard to find a cloud LMS that supports the user-friendly creation of interactive and multimedia-rich content. Consequently, users must rely on various external tools to develop engaging course materials, making the process cumbersome and time-consuming.
It doesn’t need to be this way. The right LMS will offer a variety of course creation tools that enable instructors to deliver quality, engaging content across multiple programs at scale. The platform should feature high-quality integrations with creation tools that use interactive content types to provide a fast and efficient way for instructors to create and scale their course content with ease.
You should also consider an LMS with built-in AI capabilities. Look for a provider with user-friendly content creation and AI tools designed to enhance workflow efficiencies for course creators and educators. These tools should be able to assist in generating practice and quiz questions aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, supporting the development of assessments that target various cognitive levels, from knowledge recall to critical thinking and application., significantly improving the content creation process.
Your LMS should do more than just deliver online learning. It should be an integral part of your learning initiatives, encouraging both student, faculty and administrative success. It should be the drive of outcome-based learning, assist faculty efficiencies, make your institution more competitive, craft personalized learning for students and easily produce engaging content.
If your LMS isn’t going beyond the basics, it could be time to make a change. Not sure where to go from here? Check out our complete LMS evaluation guide to help you get started.
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