Comparative Study of Online Learning Management Systems: A Survey in Pakistan

Authors

Waqas Ahmed Memon, Department of Information Technology, QUEST Nawab Shah, Sindh, PakistanFollow
Azeem Ayaz Miran, Information Technology SBBU-SBA, Sindh, PakistanFollow
Muhammad Suleman Memon, Information Technology university of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh, PakistanFollow
Irum Naz Sodhar, Information Technology SBBU-SBA, Sindh, PakistanFollow

Abstract

Teacher and students are main stockholder in educational institutes. However E- management of class activities are one of important and very simple method to communicate with students. Online course management tools are widely adapted in educational institutes for teacher and student effective communication. Online learning Management Systems (LMS) is one of efficient tool for class activities management. This study surveys effective tool and measure their performance parameters according to memory, integrity, user experience and other features. It is found from comprehensive survey that Moodle is popular and adopted by many institutes. Google classroom is second effective tool and also popular due to freely available features with G - suite. Blackboard is good enough in security perspective because of its good and effective security management system and well content provider system. On the basis of this survey, the more than 80% participants were not aware from online LMS tools. However rest of 20% who were familiar only from one or two popular LMS tools and they were concerned people of IT field including students and as well as teachers.

Recommended Citation

Ahmed Memon, Waqas; Ayaz Miran, Azeem; Suleman Memon, Muhammad; and Naz Sodhar, Irum (2019) "Comparative Study of Online Learning Management Systems: A Survey in Pakistan," Information Sciences Letters: Vol. 8 : Iss. 3 , PP -.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/isl/vol8/iss3/4