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The past tense of open badges

E-Learning Provocateur

That would give the student a sense of accomplishment while in the midst of a multi-year program, and I imagine showcasing one’s backpack on the university’s VLE would become rather competitive. For example, Mozilla issues its Div Master Badge upon successfully using the div tag at least 2 times in its Webmaker Project.

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Wisdom of clouds

Learning with e's

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. Martin's prediction about a move towards loosely coupled teaching tools has examples in practice today.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines. The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). Unported License.

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e-Factor Conference

Moodle Journal

I must say that I felt particularly encouraged with regard to the emphasis on the vle and eLearning especially with relevance to the new Common Inspection Framework. Other forms of learning activity that are not teaching or assessment sessions may be graded, for example progress reviews.

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Lost in translation

Learning with e's

There has been a bit of discussion on Twitter, and at our recent ALT-C VLE symposium, on the importance of naming things. At the VLE is Dead symposium , there was an issue over the term PLE (Personal Learning Environment). There are examples of over-description in Pidgin because no shared name exists for the object being discussed.

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Twibal Drums

E-Learning Provocateur

But then David me asked a probing follow-up question… yes, it can be used as personal message board, but is that good for education when we have a VLE for that kind of activity? Tags: Twitter social media social networking blogging cartoon humour participatory culture twibes. This is where I think twibes can prove useful.

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LMS & LCMS Directory

eLearning 24-7

Example: Lotus LMS by IBM is no longer offered and support will cease to exist on September 30, 2010. Some vendors use the words “VLE&# – but in a deeper dive, it is a LMS for them. Tags: LCMS LMS Uncategorized e-learning e-learning vendors elearning. When available, I have provided comments and insight.

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