INTEGRATION OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN BASIC STEAM EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Basic Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education is a relatively new construct in the field of education and is yet to be adequately integrated into the basic education curriculum in Nigeria. The precursor construct, STEM too has not been effectively and efficiently taught with technology and reflective thinking. Thus, this paper reviewed literature on basic STEAM education, the integration of Learning Management System (LMS) to enhance, enable, enrich and empower both the learners and the instructional facilitators in active engagement and interactivity. LMS premised on the contructivists' and behaviourists' learning theories which spur the learners of basic STEAM education. into activities embedded in appropriate Instructional System Design (ISD) which succinctly package STEAM education contents into modules intersperse with videos, games, assignment, quizzes, forum discussion, collaboration, analytics, online synchronous tele-conferencing and Immediate Knowledge of Results, (IKOR). Empirical evidences available signal that integrating LMS into basic STEAM education would enhance, enrich, enable and empower the learners' affective, cognitive and psychomotor domains of learning outcomes. Therefore, the paper suggests that all educational stakeholders hands should be on deck to fashion a new STEAM education curriculum integrated with LMS.