AN OVERVIEW OF LAMS (LEARNING ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)

This paper provides a thorough introduction to LAMS (Learning Activity Management System). An overview of what LAMS is, and who creat ed it, is followed by a description of its Learner, Monitor and Author environments. Th e numerous and supportive createrdesigned online animated tutorial links ‘built into ’ he paper cover in detail all the facets of these environments. It is held that the reader w ill benefit greatly and will acquire a sound knowledge base of how to use LAMS if these pr esentations, which total several hours, are viewed. To this extent, this article is also teacher-training in scope. The final part of the paper comprises a brief literature revi ew on LAMS. LAMS pilot use in ESOL is highly recommended and a call is made for the su bsequent dissemination of research