Learning management system lms

The History of LMS

By Meredith Connor

  • First Teaching Machine

    First Teaching Machine
    The first teaching machine was developed by Sidney Pressey which was used to administer multiple choice questions.

  • PLATO

    PLATO
    Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    U.S. Department of Defense commissioned the creation of ARPANET a precursor to today's world wide web.

  • LMS - Moodle

    LMS - Moodle
    Open Source Internal network LMS Moodle was released.

  • SCORM

    SCORM
    SCORM 2004 was released and remains the current version that many LMS use today.

  • Eucalyptus - First Open source

    Eucalyptus - First Open source
    Eucalyptus was released as the first open-source. AWS API - Compatible platform for deploying private clouds. This sparked the explosion of cloud computing that eventually enabled to LMS to exist entirely online without needing to be installed on an internal network.

  • Cloud LMS

    Cloud LMS
    Today most modern LMS are hosted are hosted in the cloud, freeing organizations of the burden of installing and maintaining in-house systems.