Basic to Futuristic Cloud Enabled LMS Architectures in

This Exploratory Paper describes the current status and futuristic Learning Management System (LMS), paying particular attention to its use in eLearning. The goal of the paper is to provide decision-makers with information to evaluate the efficacy of LMS platforms for adoption and implementation considerations. The paper further outlines the present state of standardization efforts and confronts technical standards. It is necessary to confront the reader with the enormous gap between present standardization efforts and the requirements of human learning processes because these processes need to be supported by LMSs and need to provide individual learners with the resources to ascend to higher levels of knowledge and competency. Cloud computing describes a broad movement toward the use of wide area networks (WANs), such as the Internet, to enable interaction between information technology (IT) service providers of many types and consumers. Service providers are expanding their offerings to include the entire traditional IT stack, ranging from foundational hardware and platforms to application components, soft ware services, and whole soft ware applications, thus the “Cloud based LMS” become the reality today.