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.

The presented work is supported by the ‘German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space’ (BMFTR) through the granting of the funding project HASKI (FKZ: 16DHBKI035).