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Twitter VLE Conversation - Best of eLearning Last Week

Tony Karrer

Kapp Notes , April 20, 2009 Fantastic File Converter - eLearning Acupuncture , April 24, 2009 Throw away your powerponits, simply use Prezi - Ignatia Webs , April 21, 2009 Learning Tools: for the Educator/Teacher - Don't Waste Your Time , April 20, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Learning with 'e's: The VLE sucks

Learning with e's

The ALT-C 'VLE is dead' symposium attracted a huge audience. Each of our panel of four presented our cases, some arguing for and some against the demise of the VLE. Some people actually went as far as to say that the VLE is dead symposium was the centre-piece of ALT-C 2009. The institutional VLE sucks. Undead hmm?

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Dead personal

Learning with e's

Since I posted the ' Two fingered salute ' earlier this week several people have asked me what I meant by 'personal web'. The report goes on to define personal webs as self created and consisting of online tools that suit each individual's unique preferences, styles and needs. The two are not to be confused. Sound like a PLE?

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Wisdom of clouds

Learning with e's

To be honest, at some point in the run up to the ALT-C 2009 conference, I got this idea. There were many people at a session titled " the VLE is Dead " hosted by James Clay, Josie Fraser, Graham Attwell, Nick Sharratt and Steve Wheeler aka Timbuckteeth :). Martin Weller blogged about the death of VLE/LMS too in Nov 2007.

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The boy done good

Learning with e's

Dan's article is entitled: ' Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs): here to stay, or on the brink of demise? ' It is a provocative take on the current state of play of the VLE, and he comes to some interesting conclusions. Recent literature and personal blogs are used to understand how the VLE as a concept is understood.

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Learning Space Mash-up: Toward a Collaborative Personal Learning Environment

Learning with e's

Thirdly, I will revisit the idea that mashup PLEs will rival and perhaps ultimately supplant the institutional Learning Management System (LMS) or VLE. These include Monkey Business , Changing the Architecture (about the future of Web 2.0 If you're there in Villach for ICL 2009, say hello!

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and my nominations are.

Learning with e's

Here are my nominations for the 2009 Edublogger Awards : For best individual blog I would like to nominate Martin Weller, who on his blog The Ed Techie , has been consistent in his posting and always manages to provide some food for thought. In the best New Blog category I nominate Donna Hay over at The Web 2.0

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