Persuasive Learning Management System (PLMS) To Enhance User Learning Experience

Abstract

The traditional learning experience for students is bored and brings poor study behaviour. With the help of information and communication technology (ICT), there are plenty of learning platforms either web-based or application widely available nowadays. One of them is the learning management system (LMS) that is commonly provided by institutions. However, it does not really boost up the students’ interest to learn something new on their own. The students learning experience can be interesting with the help of emotional design elements together with appropriate persuasive strategies. Therefore, this project proposes to develop a LMS with persuasive strategies and emotional design elements to enhance the students’ learning experience in course IT32103, Human-Computer Interaction for University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) students. By doing this, three objectives are focused: the persuasive design strategies and emotional design elements for LMS, to develop a persuasive LMS and the evaluation of the persuasive LMS. There are four phases in methodology. First is the pilot study to investigate the students' emotions based on the LMS interfaces and their learning experience by using LMS. Second, to identify the suitable persuasive LMS features. Third, to develop the system by using programming language, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) and the last, system evaluation. At the end of the project, a persuasive LMS is implemented which can enhance the students’ learning experience.