1 THE LEARNING PORTAL FOR IMPROVING THE E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract. The learning management system (LMS) is the most popular e-learning system, which normally provides course centered managements and is rather weak at learner centered managements. The LMS normally does not manage school register and imported automatically or even manually from the school information system. Several excellent open-source LMSs are now available as the Sakai and the Moodle, and therefore, it becomes necessary to support not only one LMS. In changing situations, it is very important to improve the e-learning environment by connecting related systems and adding supplemental functions. We tried to solve these problems by constructing the learning portal with the single sign-on environment. This paper shows the implantation of the learning portal by cooperating with several e-learning systems and by adding learner centered functions