Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, author, children's rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of almost 3 decades reside with their 8 children in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. because "our current system of education has broken its promise..." Learning By Grace, Inc. delivers Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children in the United States and throughout the world.
Rothschild has authored a number of books about education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Home Education News Blog contains feature stories on alternatives in education.
A Learning Management System (LMS) is a package of software that allows online schools like The MorningStar Academy to deliver online content to students around the globe. Through a learning management system, students are free to learn at their own pace, in a time and place that fits their schedule.
A learning management system typically includes a database of information that allows teachers to keep track of each student's progress throughout the year. This database consists of homeschooler profiles, gradebook information, virtual classrooms, online eBooks, and much more.
There are many different types of LMSs. The characteristics that define an LMS include a back-end management system that organizes users, roles, course structures, teacher access, and report-generation. Many systems feature learning modules that allow the student to easily progress through the course material in an orderly and sequential fashion. A good LMS should allow teachers and administrators to send mass communications to the student base. Many LMSs also include grading software that automatically generates grade reports within seconds of the completion of an assignment.
One of the primary advantages of a Learning Management System is its ability to be updated on the fly. Some time ago, Pluto was demoted from planetary status and was no longer considered a member of the planetary solar system. While traditional textbooks will not see this change for several years, often up to a decade, our LMS allowed us to immediately account for the change. Our homeschooling LMS is updated constantly which removes the need for printing costs and prevents students from having to purchase new textbooks.
As technology improves, we will most likely see greater innovation. Like every good LMS, ours evolves over time to offer the most relevant and current learning presentation for online homeschooling families.
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