LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – SIGNIFICANCE AND APPLICATION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Abstract

In teaching and learning process especially where it’s engineering, due to complex numerical,
equations, abstract nature and mathematics involved, it’s challenging to present the content to students with great
interest. With diminishing resources (e.g., continuous funding cut, frequent professional/academic staff career
movement, lack of competent professional staff, inadequate laboratory infrastructures), teaching and learning of
engineering courses become harder and it is progressively becoming difficult to teach basic engineering courses
effectively. As a result, students cannot achieve effective learning outcomes. To overcome these challenges, foreseen
solution is teaching learning process with learning material application. This approach is cost effective, user-friendly
and attractive. The method comprises a real laboratory demonstration video clip, conduction of a real laboratory
experiment and a computer simulation/modeling, presentations, real case studies etc. Educational management
system is looking forward to improve the teaching and learning experience in higher education system also. Most of
the universities in US, UK, Canada and Australia including 28 universities of Saudi Arabia are using different LMS
systems and same can be thought of for India. In this paper various possibilities of application of LMS is given for
Engineering to make teaching learning more effective.