Analysis of Learning Management Systems features and future development challenges in modern cloud environment

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are commonly used for management of online learning activities inside single or many courses. Usually they are rich with different tools and options in order to enable modern interactive learning environment. But from their early beginnings, before migration on web, LMS were designed as closed systems in order to serve single institution learning content. Such development hindered LMS for proper integrations with other systems and brought many challenges which are present up to this date in many LMS solutions. This research explains why some of the most used LMS in the world today are not able to properly integrate in modern cloud environment. Analysis of core functionalities of most used LMS are explained with propositions for improvement and future development.