Great post from Sarah Horrigan on a training she did with University staff on using virtual learning environments (VLE's).  It's what instructors do with it. I asked, 'How many of you put your lecture PowerPoints in the VLE?'. lecture notes? Apparently there were complaints prior to the session about VLEs being "boring," that Sarah decided to face head on, pointing out that it's not the VLE that's boring. Lots of hands. 'How

If you ask a true learning professional, he or she will probably articulate Moodle as a virtual learning environment (VLE) , or course management system (CMS) , or worst case a learning management system (LMS). If you are planning to use Moodle as a total online learning solution covering everything from online course registration, semester results generation, intelligent class scheduling, to alumni management, you are going struggle no matter how many Moodle plug-ins you discover and use. No, it is not an Airport! It is more like a space station

Edu Toolbox Learning Resources in Delicious Blog Form Home FAQs Popular Rankings By Subject By Year Specialty Rankings Top Online Colleges RSS The Ultimate Open Courseware Toolset: 60+ Directories, Search Engines, and Web Tools February 19, 2009 Open courseware has expanded to the extent that directories, lists, search engines, archives and Web tools are available free to anyone who chooses to learn through the Internet. You can find books, video lectures, teaching tools and more, all labeled with the open courseware

In this e-Learning 2.0 workshop facilitated by Stephen (who actually entitled it ' Web 2.0 in Learning'), participants explored a full range of web 2.0 tools, and discussed (including group activities) how these tools could facilitate more effective communication, collaboration and learning. The thing about Link to Stephen Downes Homepage All His Papers All His Presentation Slides + KL Workshop Slides Blogs - OLDaily & Half an Hour Web 1.0 = Read Web 2.0 = Read -Write Web 3.0 = Read -Write - Research Web 4.0 = Read -Write - Research - Rambo! At last I got to meet Stephen Downes in person and attend one of his workshops.

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The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: fMRI of Learning Styles: Confirmation of Visual and Verbal Learners - Eide Neurolearning Blog , March 30, 2009 Lecturing – stupidest profession? - Donald Clark Plan B , April 3, 2009 Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009 50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0

Alright, the actual title for the 2-day workshop was: E-Learning Implementation and Web 2.0 Technologies in the Higher Education Sector The main objective of this hands-on practical workshop was to develop an understanding of the implementation and application of e-learning technologies within an institution of higher education. technologies that participants could use to develop a collaborative online learning space. "Students who ask better questions, are independent learners, deep thinkers and ethical leaders of the future" - NTU's Greatest Achievement WHY GO?

Despite the pervasiveness of large lecture courses found in colleges, the core of learning at the graduate level and beyond formal education is one-to-one dialogue between a mentor and a learner. The Internet and trends in e-learning have finally made mentoring practical and cost effective. Problems With the Old System Traditional face-to-face mentoring brought with it several problems. Online Mentoring Programs By Gary A. Berg, California State University Channel Islands September 22, 2009 One-to-one relationships, facilitated through the Internet, is changing

A Thought Leader in Evolving Education, Business Analysis, and Media through Simulations, Serious Games, and other Virtual Learning Environments As a designer, Clark Aldrich has created some of the most effective, celebrated, and innovative "soft skills" simulations of the past decade, including SimuLearn's Virtual Leader global product line (for which he was awarded a patent, is the most popular leadership simulation in the world, and was the winner of the "best online training product of the year"). SimuLearn's Virtual Leader (and the updated vLeader) is currently