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What is normal?

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

A submission to an event or award for a project or team glosses over information that the author considered too normal or basic to cover, but actually helps to condition and ground the work, and therefore makes it easier to understand the ‘where’ as well as the ‘why’ and ‘how’.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. 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).

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Online Education Revolution: Initiatives Taken by the Indian Government

Learning Routes

You can visit these websites to get educational content as published by the Ministry of Education , the Government of India: NPTEL Pedagogy Project Virtual Labs VLE A-VIEW Text Transcription Spoken Tutorial Aakash Educational Portal CEC OSS for Maths Edu. e-Yantra SOS Tools Inflibnet Material Science & Engg. (e-book)

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Viva la evolution

E-Learning Provocateur

Encouraging more of a user-generated and peer-to-peer learning environment may not be to everyone’s taste so a VLE such as Moodle will give more control. Really what would do us more good is to either assess realistic risks, or evacuate safely in the event of a fire.

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All change

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

Not really knowing or understanding what the role was I jumped in at the deep end and started learning all about pedagogy, learning technology, VLEs, assessments, assessment and marking criteria, copyright, academic personalities, missed meetings, impossible deadlines, broken links, unnecessary emails, internal politics, etc.

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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. How often do we impose pathways upon students which do not meet their needs, or fit their expectations? Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with e's

There was a serious underpinning philosophy, where students gain a personal space on the web which they can control, and which is the antithesis of the institutional VLE/LMS. It returns to the EDUPUNK ethos where instead of resisting the chaos, we engage with it, opening up a pedagogy of uncertainty, in a do-it-yourself style education.

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