How ECM can be used for distance learning content management ECM to LCM

In the recent years, after the evolution of Web services and technologies, a huge development of learning environments has emerged. From E-learning to P-learning via M-learning, the learning environments are evolving increasingly in terms of access devices, platforms and learning contents. On the one hand, Web 2.0 technologies have offered new opportunities for internet users to contribute to the creation of Internet contents and make it richer and more diverse. Furthermore, access devices require multichannel distribution. Consequently, these contents have been in multi-formats, multi-sources, multi-channels, multi-versions and multi-media. The new challenge in the distance learning environment, using new technologies, is to create a real educational heritage, manage learning content, maintain it and make it accessible to different actors whoever the producer and whatever the location, the format and the time in order to ensure a better learning quality. The objective is to allow learner to be able to exploit the educational heritage on the web. To target this, the learning platforms must comply with the new content management needs in this area. We are interested, in the scope of this article, in the problem of managing the learning contents in the M-learning case. In the first section, we are recalling the technological and the educational context of mobile learning so as to be able to shed light on the new requirements in terms of contents in the second section. The third section will be devoted to the introduction of some learning platforms, which despite of their diversity, lack the functionality and the ability to meet the new needs. The fourth section will be dedicated to Enterprise Content Management Systems ECM that could be an alternative to the existing platforms. We will endeavor to highlight its ECM components so as to benefit from them in the distance learning field.