System development and practice of e-learning in graduate school

An efficient e-learning system should provide learners with learning environment that has high degree of freedom. In order to realize this, e-learning systems must be equipped with such functions as letting learners themselves choose appropriate learning contents and understand correctly their level of progress and achievement for each learning contents. We have been developing an integrated e-learning environment which integrates learning history and learning content information to control each learner´s learning. It is designed based on learning ecological model (LEM) and is now going to be integrated with the database run by educational affairs section. It will enable teachers to analyze e-learning log data with learners´ academic achievements. This paper describes functions of the LMS and then reports a preliminary practice in a graduate school course.