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NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES
EASY WAY TO EVALUATE LMSs
(EW-LMS)
ALA'A M. MOMANI
MASTER'S THESIS
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
NICOSIA-2008
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Assist. Prof. Dr. NadireÇavuş, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of the writing of my thesis.Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form. Second, I would like to express my respect and appreciation to the Chairman of the Department, Assist. Prof. Dr. Yalçın Akçalı. Besides, thanks for Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilham Hüseyinov, the Master Program Coordinator. I also extend my sincere gratitude to all my friends at the University and I promise not to forget them. My very special thanks and gratefulness to my loyal friend Mohammad Qudah for his valuable support and help. Lastly, my unlimited thanks and heartfelt love would be dedicated to my dearest family for their loyalty and their great confidence in me. I am greatly indebted to my dad who is indeed my inspiration and the man who led me to the treasures of knowledge. To my mum who gave me all her love and her continued faithful supplication. To my beloved sister who granted me all her pure and true love. iv
ABSTRACT
Easy Way to Evaluate LMSs (EW-LMS)
MOMANI, Ala'a
Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Information Systems
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. NadireÇavuş
July 2008, 201 pages
E-learning systems have become an issue in recent years. However the instructor is a very important factor in the learning process, but the advantages of e-learning systems change the role which the instructor plays in this process. This thesis is about developing a computer program in order to evaluate the learning management systems (LMS). The developed system is web-based and can easily be used over the internet any where over the world at any time. This will provide with a web-based decision support system (DSS ) that may hel p the us ers to choose the convenient system depending on their needs and their type of usage. This evaluation system was designed by using the MS-Visual Studio .NET and its database was designed by using MS-SQL Server. In order to evaluate the LMSs, we must consider the most important features of any LMS and put them as the criteria that may enable us to evaluate the systems. In this study, fifty two comprehensive features of any e-learning system are presented. The user can select his group of features from the list of 52 commonly used features. The system can then find the best LMS to match the selection criteria. The system's database contains a full description on the most famous LMSs over the web and the widely-used over the world. These systems are: Moodle, ATutor, Blackboard, WebCT, and Claroline. Each one is analyzed as stated in the list of features. This thesis is oriented to any one interested in the e-learning field and its evaluation. The individuals who are usually concerned with this project are v teachers, students, and any educational organizations such as: universities, schools, institutes, and anyone who seeks to have a LMS. Keywords: E-Learning, Learning Management System (LMS ), Course Management System (CMS ), Dec ision M aking Proc ess, Eval uati on for LMSs,
Comparing LMSs.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
iii ABSTRACT ........................................................................iv TABLE OF CONTENTS .........................................................vi LIST OF TABLES ................................................................xi LIST OF FIGURES ...............................................................xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................xiii
CHAPTER
1. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................1
1.1 Problem Statement and Motivation ................................2
1.2 Proposed Solution and Methodology ..............................3
1.3 The Goal of This Thesis .............................................4
1.4 Thesis Objectives ....................................................4
1.5 Limitations of this Thesis ...........................................5
1.6 Our Research Questions .............................................5
1.7 Definition of Terms ................................................6
1.8 Overview of This Thesis ...........................................7
2. LITERATURE REVIEW ......................................................9
2.1 Introduction ...........................................................9
2.2 Related Research .....................................................9
2.3 Summary ..............................................................18
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3. THE EVALUATION METHOD .............................................20
3.1 Introduction ...........................................................20
3.2 Logical View .........................................................20
3.3 Mathematical View ..................................................22
3.3.1 Multi-attribute Decision Making Method ..............22
3.3.2 Linear Weighted Attribute Model .......................23
3.4 Applicable View (System View) ...................................24
3.5 Programmatic View ..................................................26
3.6 User View .............................................................28
3.7 Case Study: A Real Example on a Complete Evaluation
Operation ..............................................................30
3.8 Summary ..............................................................34
4. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS' FEATURES ANALYSIS35
4.1 Introduction ...........................................................35
4.2 Analyzing the Features ..............................................35
4.3 Features" Definitions .................................................38
4.4 Summary ..............................................................50
5. THE EVALUATED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS .......51
5.1 Introduction ...........................................................51
5.2 Moodle ................................................................52
5.3 ATutor .................................................................53
5.4 Claroline ...............................................................54
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5.5 WebCT .................................................................54
5.6 Blackboard ............................................................54
5.7 Summary ...............................................................55
6. SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION ..............................................56
6.1 Introduction ...........................................................56
6.2 Technical Documentation ...........................................57
6.2.1 Life Cycle ..................................................57
6.2.2 Feasibility Study ..........................................57
6.2.2.1 Economic Feasibility ..........................58
6.2.2.2 Technical Feasibility ..........................58
6.2.2.3 Operational Feasibility ........................58
6.2.3 Definitions and Specifications (Analysis Phase) .....58
6.2.3.1 User Requirement Definition .................59
6.2.3.2 System Requirements Specification .........59
6.2.3.3 Determining Requirements ...................59
6.2.4 The Design Phase .........................................61
6.2.4.1 Preliminary design of the user interface ....61
6.2.4.2 Preliminary design of the software
structure ......................................... 62
6.2.4.3 Process Modeling ..............................62
6.2.5 Database Design ..........................................68
6.2.6 Privileges and Responsibilities ..........................71
6.2.6.1 Administrator ..................................72
6.2.6.2 Visitors ..........................................73
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6.2.7 Application Programs and programming Languages75
6.2.7.1 Programming Languages .....................75
6.2.7.2 Application Programs .........................75
6.2.7.3 Database Applications ........................75
6.3 User Documentation (User Guide) .................................75
6.3.1 Introduction ................................................75
6.3.2 The System"s Home Page ................................76
6.3.3 Administrator Pages ......................................77
6.3.3.1 Administrator Main Menu ....................78
6.3.3.2 Manage administrator"s accounts ............78
6.3.3.3 Managing the list of all products ............79
6.3.3.4 Opinions and Discussions ....................80
6.3.3.5 Edit LMS"s Features ...........................81
6.3.4 The LMS's Evaluation Sub-System .....................81
6.3.5 The Comparing Products Sub-System .................83
6.3.6 Opinion and Discussion Sub-System ..................85
6.3.6.1 Give your opinion about a product ..........85
6.3.6.2 Discuss a feature of a specific product ......85
6.4 Summary ..............................................................86
7. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..........................87
7.1 Conclusion ............................................................87
7.2 Recommendations ...................................................90
7.2.1 Future Research ...........................................90
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APPENDICES
A. The Screen Shots Captured From The Evaluation System Offered By This Thesis .....................................................................105 B. Learning Management Systems" Features Description ....................126 xi
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1:Different comparison methods used in revised papers .........17 Table 3.1:The decision making table..........................................22 Table 3.2: The representation of the relations between weightsand ranks in the decision making table ................................25 Table 3.3: A draft design of the list of whole 52 features ..................31 Table 3.4:Ranks given by the user............................................32 Table 3.5: The complete sets of weights and ranks ..........................32 Table 3.6: The multiplication operation results ..............................33 Table 5.1: The list of LMSs included in our evaluation.....................51 Table 6.1:List of database tables..............................................68 Table 6.2: List of fields for all database tables...............................69 Table 6.3: Administrator main menu options .................................78 xii
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1.1:The evaluation process-flow graph..............................3 Figure 3.1:The evaluation operation flow-chart.............................30 Figure 3.2:The multiplication operations for each weight with its corresponding ranks ................................................33 Figure 6.1:The Context DFD diagram for our system......................64 Figure 6.2:Level-0 DFD........................................................64 Figure 6.3:Level-1 DFD for process 1; administrating sub-system......65 Figure 6.4:Level-1 DFD for process 2; managing LMS's sub-system...65 Figure 6.5:Level-1 DFD for process 3; managing features sub-system ..66 Figure 6.6: Level-1 DFD for process 4; opinions and discussions sub Figure 6.7: Level-1 DFD for process 5; LMS's evaluation sub-system...67 Figure 6.8: Level-1 DFD for process 6; comparing between LMS's sub- Figure 6.9: The ER-Diagram...................................................71quotesdbs_dbs2.pdfusesText_2
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