LAMS (Learning Activity Management System)

 

 

Easy, Fun, and Effective!

LAMS (Learning Activity Management Systems) is an online tool for designing, managing and delivering a sequence of learning activities. The composition of these learning activities:

1. includes both on- and offline activities
2. supports both individual and collaborative work.

1. Log in ALEX (http://alex.med.nyu.edu) using your Kerberos ID
2. Choose Online Learning Module Development site
3. In the tool menu (on the left), choose LAMS
4. Click New Lesson under LAMS v2
5. Click Open Author
6. Within LAMS, Click New (or Open to edit existing files)

DEI, you and LAMS - Expectations

You are responsible for learning objectives, keywords, learning contents, learning time and creation of LAMS module.

DEI provides support in:
• Training
• Advice/assistance on educational design, based on multimedia-based learning theories to transfer knowledge in an more effective way
• Production of audiovisual materials, e.g., audio and video recording and graphics
• Overall planning, supervising, and coordinating activity

Pre-test:
• To motivate learning (to anchor students to the module)
• To allow students to recognize what they know or don’t know
• Limit the number of questions so as not to have pretest be a burden
• LAMS pre-test tools: Multiple choice, Q&A, Data collection

Lectures:
• Predominantly to deliver complex and/or difficult knowledge (factual & procedural)
• With more audiovisual support (according to cognitive learning theory, audio+visual stimulation is more effective than visual only learning)
• Reorganize PPT slides (less content with more interactivity)
• LAMS activity tools: Noticeboard

Assessment & feedback:
• Multiple choice questions to test factual knowledge
• Open-ended to test procedural knowledge and problem solving knowledge
• Feedback (correct answers AND explanation) to optimize learning effectiveness
• LAMS activity tools: Multiple choice, Q&A, Survey

Group-based Learning
• To link factual knowledge to problem solving skills
• To motivate students to act as active learners
• LAMS activity tools: Branching (e.g., Q&A+Noticeboard), Chat, Forum, Forum & Scribe

Branching
• To assign learning content to targeted learners
• LAMS activity tools: Branching (group-based; teacher-allocated; tool-output based)

Post-test
• To evaluate learning effectiveness
• LAMS activity tools: Multiple choice, Q&A, Survey

Survey (students’ feedback, course evaluation):
• To evaluate module and get feedback from students
• LAMS activity tools: Multiple choice, Q&A, Survey, Voting, Data collection

Monitor

• The Monitoring provides instructors with real-time student monitoring and tracking facilities.

So-Young Oh
Instructional Media Specialist
Division of Educational Informatics
Tel: (212) 263-2057
Email: so-young.oh@nyumc.org

Sabrina Lee
Project Manager
Division of Educational Informatics
Tel: (212) 263-6742
Email: sabrina.lee@nyumc.org