LCMS = CMS + LMS

A Learning Content Management System (LCMS) is a system (mostly web-based) used to create, manage, index, publish and deliver didactical contents (named specifically “Learning Objects”, LO) to a degree of granularity and reusability much higher than the one reached by other LMSs and lessons.

A LCMS’ main features can be summarized as follows:

• it combines the administrative and management dimensions of a traditional LMS with the dimension of the content creation and its personalized structuring proper of a CMS,
• allows to separate content from its final rendering.

Within a LCMS, there will be many archives of didactical contents that can be used independently or as part of a broader formative process.
Moreover, according to the didactical perspective:

• instructional designers can create new didactical contents that address specific formative needs or can assemble new courses from pre-existing didactical contents;
• new contents and new courses validation before delivery;
• tutors can define personalization rules that allow defining didactical contents or the most appropriate courses for a certain user profile;
• and educational/training service managers can store or delete didactical contents that are no longer necessary.