Integrated Learning System
Integrated Learning System
Typically an ILS comprises a delivery management system (DMS) and a range of curriculum software units (courseware). Acorn ILS systems comply with the UK national OILS (Open Integrated Learning Systems) standard to ensure that DMS and learning software can be developed widely to suit the UK curriculum. Currently available systems focus mainly on numeracy and literacy, with a much wider range of subjects and styles of OILS compliant software currently under development for launch in 1995.
Integrated learning systems have been in use in the USA and other countries for some time but have only recently been introduced to the UK. Trials conducted by the National Council for Educational Technology (NCET) have demonstrated both substantial learning gains and behavioural improvements. Trial schools are widening ILS usage in order to avoid giving pupils who were not part of the original trials a disadvantage and to spread the benefits to other areas of the curriculum.
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