Abstract: For millennia, the paradigm of learning ? classroom teaching prevailed! The formal learning was scarce; resources were concentrated around and centered on the availability of the educator, rather than the learner. The first applications of eLearning were therefore paralleled with the old classroom model and its associated characteristics. While understandable, this does not achieve the true potential of the new paradigm: the Internet as a learning medium. The first wave of e-learning was focused on solutions associated with administering classroom training, i.e. the Learning Management System (LMS). However, the discipline has developed and evolved into a second wave of a more sophisticated e-learning solution. This new wave requires an e-Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to fulfill the needs of personalized and adaptive e-learning. Web based LCMS are increasingly utilized across the medical universities internationally. LCMS can facilitate the delivery of medical education and broadens the capacity for tracking and reporting of teaching & learning across an institution, simplify and automate administrative and supervisory tasks, and facilitate institutional accreditation. These systems are equipped with business intelligence tools to analyze data and create reports to foster curriculum governance and education delivery. The most sophisticated systems incorporate version control, multiple authors, and project management as well. LCMS is a multi-user environment where developers may create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital learning content from a central object repository. LCMS solutions are ideally suited to create content-centric learning strategies, supporting multiple methods for gathering and organizing content, leveraging content for multiple purposes, and achieving educational goals and objectives. The LCMS in medical education, with its focus on the learner, may be the real breakthrough in eLearning. Thus, it is greatly anticipated that this new wave of eLearning in medicine will change the landscape of learning forever in favor of the learner and their dynamically changing needs.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Professor Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FAASM is a Professor and Head of Respirology for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He also works within the Critical Care Section and Sleep Disorders Centre, served as program director of post graduate education in respirology at the University of Manitoba, and is the site director of respiratory medicine at St. Boniface General Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Sharma’s research interests include epidemiology of respiratory diseases, perioperative respiratory care, exercise induced hypoxemia, medical education, and medical informatics. Dr. Sharma is presently Director of Medical Informatics at Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. In this position he was instrumental in creating a Learning Content Management System for the medical faculty. He is a longstanding board member of the Canadian Thoracic Society, chair of the Specialty Committee of Respirology for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, governor of the Manitoba chapter of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a member of the Health and Science Policy Committee for the ACCP. Dr. Sharma maintains an active agenda of philanthropic undertakings and supports UNICEF, the Red Cross, and numerous other voluntary organizations. In his spare time, he enjoys competitive running, bicycling, travel, fiction writing, and community work.