The Role of Learning Management Systems in Educational Environments

Using Learning Management Systems (LMSs) in educational environments has facilitated the communication between students and teachers, and raised new challenges as well. In this research the authors investigated the role of LMS in the learning and teaching processes from students and teachers perspectives. They adopted a social constructivist worldview. They used an inductive qualitative approach, a single case study design and hermeneutical approach for analyzing collected data. The research took place at the School of Computer Science, Physics and mathematics department at Linnaeus University, Växjö campus, Sweden. The participants of this research were students and teachers from two master levels within the program of Information Systems. The study results were packed with information about how teacher and students evaluate their experience in using LMS.