Frederic Leblanc & Nicolas Lupien:

Have you ever experienced an online course ? If you are reading this article, I’m presuming the answer is yes. Whether you are the teacher or the student, you probably thought, at one time or another: the experience could have been better if… Maybe it wasn’t exactly those words, but I’m sure you found out that the Learning Management System (LMS) you were using – or the course material you were producing/looking at – wasn’t as hot as you expected.
This is quite common. In the beginning of this century, LMSs are only starting to be usable by the mainstream. What we’re asking teachers is to create online material without, sometimes, any knowledge of computers or the LMS itself.
How can the experience be better? LMS can be simpler if online material can be produced without requiring a degree in computer science… and in a reasonable time frame.