Learning Elements in Learning Management Systems (LMSs)

Results of a survey in the higher education area. Participants are professors, lecturers, and tutors.

The final definitions for the elements are:

Brief Overview (BO): Short summary or recap without details of the actual learning material
Quiz (QU): Quiz questions related to the content taught
Learning Goal (LG): Description of the competences, skills or abilities that the learners should acquire in relation to a specific learning content
Manuscript (MS): Complete or brief elaboration of a speech, a lecture, a course, or similar
Exercise (EX): Opportunity to apply and deepen the learned. Varied tasks are possible beside the classic exercise sheet
Summary (SU): Elementalization (reduction to the essentials) of the actual content with details
Auditory additional material (AAM): Material with the aim of applying and deepening the learned with audio files
Textual additional material (TAM): Material with the aim of applying and deepening the learned with textual further information (also named additional literature)
Visual additional material (VAM): Material with the aim of applying and deepening the learned with videos or similar
Collaboration Tool (CT): Cooperative and interactive communication medium with the aim of knowledge sharing between learners and learners and/or lecturers, and is used for collaborative work
The corresponding scientific paper can be found via ORCID as of December 2023.