Building an Online Course Management System for Iraqi Education Colleges

Background/Objectives: E-Learning is an interactive learning system that provides learners with information and communication technologies. It relies on an integrated digital electronic environment that presents courses across electronic networks. Methods: The LCMS is an authoring tool which permits teachers to produce and manage their resources. Due to the absence of an active tool to perform e-learning at Iraqi education colleges, this research proposed an important system to do it based on the Internet. The developing of the system is based on the Macromedia Dreamweaver, WAMP applications and tested using the virtual network. Findings: With e-learning the learner could acquire his or her own knowledge, thus achieving interactive learning process (learner interaction with teacher, content, colleagues, or educational institution) at any time and from anywhere. The proposed system comprised of three different users: Administrator is responsible for registering other users. A teacher whose role is to create a course, appending its syllabus and timetable to determine its duration, and selecting its members. A student could view course contents and comments on it. Application: The proposed system was tested by using the virtual network and results show that adopting it is helpful for promoting traditional (faceto- face) learning but does not consider as an alternative.