Advantages and Disadvantages of LMS

Advantages

1. When built properly, an LMS can promote greater opportunities for collaboration among students and faculty.
2. Can enhance existing pedagogical/institutional structures/practices. When designed properly, an LMS can involve the learner in the six stages of Bloom’s taxonomy.
3. An LMS is reusable and extendable, thus reducing costs and redundancy.
4. Can increase enrollment by promoting niche degrees or by engaging non-traditional students.
5. Ability to track and record learner performance data.
6. When used properly, an LMS can streamline instruction time, allowing teachers to focus on individual students.

Disadvantages

1. Staff, Faculty, & Student learning curve.
2. The need for more training.
3. Can stifle creativity and innovation by limiting assessment and content delivery methods to a few types of activities, etc.
4. Customer support can be challenging, especially for smaller institutions.
5. System failures can wreak havoc.
6. Challenging for an LMS to replicate the on-campus environment.
7. Can potentially create a problem of course ownership and responsibilities Infrastructure costs may outweigh return.