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  For many years now, researchers in educational fields have been trying to understand the influence of technology in the classroom. After all, technology is not in the classroom today, technology is the classroom . Discussions with online educators and trainers yield that despite their best efforts in trying to make the session innovative and experiential, it was evident that they were struggling to keep their participants engaged. “ It’s so much harder [especially] with the younger members to engage online ,” is a common statement. E-learning is especially challenging when the subject we are trying to teach is Social and Emotional Learning . After all, the reason we focus so hard to build social and emotional skills is often because of the negative effects of technology . How E-Learning Might be Helping All challenges considered; it just would not be true to assume that because online education has underperformed in the past, it necessarily means that it will do so again in the fu

A learning management system goes beyond content delivery to offer course administration, registration, tracking, reporting and skills gap analysis. Learning management systems have become increasingly important in knowledge-based organisations.  The Role of LMS: The role of an LMS varies depending on the organization’s objectives, online training strategy, and desired outcomes. However, the most common use for LMS software is to deploy and track online training initiatives, which is also functional for remote learners. In some cases, the LMS may even have built-in eLearning authoring tools that allow you to develop online training materials without additional third-party software. LMS users fall into two categories: 1)       Online learners who use the LMS to participate in online training courses. 2)       An eLearning team that relies on the LMS platform to disburse information and update the online training content.