Learning Management System and its Relationship with Knowledge Management

The great evolution of the online world effects many domains, mainly education and knowledge management era. The new trend in educational institutes moves towards online learning, e-learning instead of traditional approach of face-to-face teaching. The main aspect of knowledge management is to offer various kind of information in different formats such as: reports, meeting to exchange opinions and experiences from the gathering database repository and related expert systems. e-learning is basically concern of delivering learning materials to its target users via elearning platforms or in other words via the learning management systems (LMS). In this paper we discuss the similarities and differences between knowledge management and e-learning. In more specific, the relationship between our learning management system used at Arab Open University and knowledge management systems is presented. We explore the main factors of LMS by displaying how these aspects can be extracted from such LMS.