E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 15, 2010

I advocated the development of Informal Learning Environments (ILEs). The FLE might be called a VLE, MLE, LMS, or some other acronym. In my previous article Online courses must die! Since then, Steve Wheeler’s thought-provoking article Anatomy of a PLE has prompted me to extend my argument a little further.

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Matrix

AUGUST 25, 2020

E-learning today is limitless when it comes to designing creative virtual learning environments (VLE). In order to meet them, Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) need to have good gamification capacities. There is no appetite for lengthy lectures or searching stuffy documents in the search for one piece of information.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 9, 2014

Not quit a predication but the title of a really informative, thought provoking and even controversial short series of broadcasts from BBC4 Radio by Sarah Montague called My teacher is an App that investigate ‘The classroom of the Future’, ‘The University of the Future’ and ending with ‘An Education Revolution?’

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

APRIL 16, 2018

.” “The LT is expected to work proactively to identify potential resources for the [name here] and to plan and manage the development of varied e-learning material, including video, webinars, self-paced interactive resources, and [VLE here] activities.” rather than a department or programme or academic group, etc.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

and then spend time showing the ropes in the VLE, LMS, online HR system, file server, phones, etc. Again, it’s not just about the click-this and click-that instructions, but the information around why we are asking students to do something that needs checking. What do you do then? over the lifespan of their studies.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 8, 2016

Fig 1 To begin I came across a very readable little report “ The Power of Curiosity ” written by the Center for Digital Education custom media division, with information and input from Canon U.S.A., Inc that presents the case for Inquiry-based instruction as a means of improving the learning experience in K-12 education.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

The arrival of shared media in Second Life, has meant among other things, that I can now give access to our vle and all its facilities to students from inside the virtual world. I am also pleased to inform everyone that the fan for a downed server is on order and will hopefully arrive soon, and so restore our full range of blog features.

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Learning with e's

JULY 11, 2010

Originally a counterpoint to the institutional Managed Learning Environment (iMLE or 'VLE'), PLEs are becoming a much talked about concept, and were the prime focus of the recently held PLE Conference in Cornella, Barcelona. Now it's time to change direction a little and challenge the unhelpful binary of PLE versus VLE.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

To me it’s a total waste of time reposting the information that already exists somewhere on the intranet in a pdf. It seems that if we just point people in the right direction for the information we can’t be sure they’ve read it. It’s no longer about what we know but more about where to find the information and apply it to tasks.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Apart from all the very predictable events and chores of a post enrolment week, I have managed to get a good amount of time both in college and out for the production of new phase 3 vle training notes. And yet, we do have repeat bookings, even though in the vast majority of cases the information that is required is clearly in the handout.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The initial trial took the form of a paper based exercise that allowed us to evaluate and apply changes to what would become the final electronic form delivered through our Moodle vle. All in all though, this has proved to be a preferred means of acquiring the information as opposed to a web database which had been my original intention.

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e-Learning Academy

MARCH 28, 2011

My interest was to hear how their approach to online instruction and design may inform my own research. Workshop day of Global Learn conference, I was privileged to attend Design & Develop and Innovative Online Learning Environment, instructed by Abtar Kaur and Zoraini Abas, Open University Malaysia.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MAY 3, 2018

Sometimes the LT is at the heart of this making sure the work is done and everyone involved has the necessary information to hand in a timely manner. Whether the work is consider small or ‘incidental’ or a full-on VLE review with institutional impact, the LT is fully aware of the impact to themselves and those involved.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 27, 2011

In one particular year, I certainly managed to get pretty much wholesale agreement with using the social network for both easy contact and handing out achievement comments’ and graphical badges and general course information. In the following year, a similar attempt led to me being almost completely unfriended, strange?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2010

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. Each learner may use a different set of tools to support/enhance their informal learning.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Well back into the swing with the vle for the new academic year and time to try out some new I thought. Are there any specialist skills that need to be learned?

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MARCH 3, 2018

There may be some info on the VLE, but is it really enough to showcase the breadth of knowledge behind the course and it’s creation? For online courses of any nature or audience it is imperative this information is front and centre. Authenticity and credibility in online learning Click To Tweet.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Keen as I always am to make use of our vle for course delivery, I am also very keen to find evidence on its effectiveness with regard to student outcomes. One of the courses that see particularly heavy use of the vle here at Bromley is my BTEC National Software Development. Anyway here is my response.

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The Be-all and End-all Guide to Creating a Supreme LearnDash LMS

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s like standing on the shore, watching wave after wave of information crash in, wondering how to even begin making sense of it. Yet, with such a wealth of information, the challenge often lies in distillation: How do we extract meaningful insights from this expansive data pool? Institutions want insights, not just numbers.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 8, 2021

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). Easy Access to Information: A digital learning platform allows access to a complete library of online resources. The software is structured to organize information in a way that makes it easily accessible to all users.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 12, 2009

For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or perhaps no web based use at all) is an option. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not. There should also be plenty of opportunity during the Fringe (F-ALT) sessions - see the F-ALT website for more details on these informal discussions.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Attached discussion groups supported more in depth and informal discussion about the activity. If they wished to change this kind of restrictive provision and depose the ‘tyranny of the institutional VLE’, universities would need to undergo a radical shift in policy. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

3) Your Managed Learning Environment (or VLE) - in whatever flavour your organisation has chosen - is a walled garden that allows conversations to be protected from outside eyes. However, bear in mind that most VLEs have online discussion threads that all of the group can see and read. 7) Finally, if all else fails, resort to e-mail.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 3, 2012

Making the Leap’ the choice of title I was informed influenced in some part by the 29th February, I didn’t see that connection I must admit. In common with a lot of colleges, universities and institutes running Moodle 1.x, x will cease this coming summer.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 17, 2011

I wanted to know whether Saba, one of the most successful of the big LMSs, could reinvent itself to accommodate informal learning. A typical VLE is designed to support formal academic courses, whether face-to-face, online or blended. Last week I asked Can the ‘big LMS’ break clear of formal training? -

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

contention is that every (yes, every) benefit of the institutional VLE for the learner can be obtained elsewhere with a little thought, using combinations of other information and communication technology tools which are freely and publicly available and already transparent to the target learner.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2014

Food service and facilities management company Sodexo created a virtual learning environment, or VLE, for employee development. Its VLE brings together decentralized groups of employees with regular technical updates, career development information and shared learning related to specific topics for 4,000 individuals.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

How it can be applied in education As Norman suggests, when information to perform a task is present within the design of an object, the need to learn it is reduced. Ill-defined problems offer less parameters/information and have less information in their design.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. But it's far from perfect.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2012

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. These events are always great for networking, and this time was no exception in during the two unscheduled fire alarms.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 15, 2008

In the main the audience was made up from by library / information professionals, administrators and publishers. I was invited to present at an ‘e-Book and Content’ event the other day, which unlike so many of the venues I had been invited to before, was attended predominantly by non-academic staff.

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ReadyTech

AUGUST 10, 2022

Unlike a virtual learning environment (VLE), which relies on a website’s CMS to facilitate communication and collaboration, an LMS provides easy-to-use tools for teams to communicate inside the system. Webinars are often used for marketing and sales training, customer engagement, and information dissemination.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

One of our Atlantis University team, Tillman Swinke, recently published a blog post called 'This time it's personal' where he deals with the subject of motivation in relation to informal learning. He argues that informal learning has both intrinsic (self motivated) and extrinsic (externally imposed demands) motivation.

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eFront

APRIL 26, 2013

Benefits were identified through the communicative potential, student participation in study groups and through informal learning, i.e. learning that takes place outside the formal structures of the learning environment. From the limited literature on the instructional uses of Facebook, one can draw conflicting conclusions. Mazer, Richard E.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 15, 2006

The web-cast also worked and our network manager informs me that we had 10 IP addresses connected, though one of those was him, so I guess that leaves 9. Well the JISC bid event with our partner colleges went really well, and now I am looking forward to seeing the whole project hopefully come to life in the New Year.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 18, 2009

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? To which I replied… Ah, from an edu perspective: Twitter is a real-time peer-to-peer knowledge sharing forum…?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. There is also evidence that learning communities informally decide their own priorities, often observed in the emerging folksonomies that result when digital content is organised, shared and curated.

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