Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Let me give you an example: Many schools, colleges and universities have by now implemented a managed learning environment (MLE) sometimes referred to as a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). Is your school community ready to adopt new practices or will they resist? Leave the store.

Technology 111

Technology Social Networks VLE Pedagogy 111

Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2009

Anyone with a modicum of insight will see that there are several parallels here with the battle between the institutional VLE and Edupunk style ‘do-it-yourselves’ personal web tools. It has an awesome array of choices, and is responsive to the needs of communities of practice as well as the individual.

VLE 86

VLE Virtual Learning Environment PLE Web 86

Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The user interface on most VLE/LMS technologies is often too complex for students, who spend much more time trying to navigate and discover content than they do actually learning that content. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. If a design is expected, students will spend little time figuring out how to use the object.

Design 98

Design Cognitive Theory Maslow 98

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Event management. What is missing.

Social Networks 73

Social Networks Social Learning Social Social Media 73

E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

• Encourage continual communication among the learners and their colleagues in the wider workplace. Consider a regular “community of practice&# meeting if the conversation does not naturally emerge. • Develop an informal VLE to centralise all the resources. Connectivist design.

Theory 159

Theory Informal Tips Cognitive 159

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

Occupying a place on the continuum somewhere between a VLE and a PLE, an ILE is an informal learning environment that a facilitator manages on behalf of a group of learners. Unlike a VLE, an ILE is strictly informal. Unlike a PLE, an ILE is communal. Enter the Informal Learning Environment (ILE).

Learning Objects 252

Learning Objects Authoring Tools VLE PLE 252