Open Source and Proprietary Learning Management System: Challenges and Opportunities for Nigerian Tertiary Institutions. Novel Practices in Education. Facom Publishers Minna, Nigeria

Abstract

Digital learning tools supported by the internet can be difficult to itemize let alone characterize their ability to support electronic teaching and learning. This situation made a number of pedagogical innovators to identify which of the technological tools is devoted to student learning, give teachers the opportunities to develop pedagogical situations with added-value learning that covers; (a) lecturers, (b) students and (c) the institutions' administration. Few of these tools; Edmodo, Claroline, goggle, classroom and blackboard are available for use with features similar to generic classrooms accommodating both lecturers, students and institutional administrators' needs. However, the application of these tools are not widely found in most Nigerian higher institutions.