Kalthum Husin
Objective
To
design and develop learning activities based on pedagogy elements. To integrate learning activities into Learning Management System that are to be used by teachers as a guideline in teaching and learning process.
Management System is an electronic learning platform that are used to deliver, monitor and manage learning (Dawley, 2007; Aziz, Yunus, Lan, & Bakar, 2009).
In
21st century, education is growing rapidly in line with the development of technology. Coates (2005) in his study found that the Learning Management System (LMS) has been widely used in the world of education and can be found in every corner of the world.
Learning Activities
Learning
Pedagogy
Is
a combination of knowledge and skills required for effective teaching. LMS encourages the teachers to deliver collaborative teaching.
Pedagogy-based
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is a method of learning in which students work together in a small group and help each other in the learning and teaching process (Paul & Byrd, 2010). This method allows the students to go beyond and to encourage students to think critically and help improve their self-confidence (Macpherson, 2007; Syahza, 2008; Silberman, 2010; Chatti, 2010; Borich, 2011).
The Problem
Most
of today's LMS is focused on the delivery of learning material rather than learning process(Glynn (2012; Mohamed Azmi, Zeehan, Fahad, Maryam, & Hisham, 2012; Coates, 2005; Dowling, 2007; Rling, et al., 2008).
Although
LMS is widely used at various levels of schools, higher education institutions as well as companies to train their employees, but its effectiveness in education world is still being debated globally.
Why?
Previous
studies prove that no matter how sophisticated the technology used in the LMS, if not based on the principles of pedagogy, the LMS will not have a high value and even its effectiveness in learning can be doubted.
The
use of LMS has received strong encouragement from learning institutions so that the ongoing learning process becomes more effective with the pedagogy elements (Dowling, 2007).
How to Tackle?
Effective
use of LMS in learning requires application of appropriate pedagogy (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2005). The opportunity to integrate LMS and pedagogy is there and should not be left wasted (Christie & Garrote Jurado, 2007)
of the study are expected to be able to provide guidance to teachers who use the LMS with the implementation of learning activities based on pedagogical elements.
Pedagogy
Effective teaching
To be continued in Semester 2