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The past tense of open badges

E-Learning Provocateur

” …and… “I also suspect that traditional higher education providers will resist providing them because they don’t fit in with traditional academic perceptions of achievement and credentialing.” ” I wonder if these academics have consulted their own faculties of education?

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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.

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Theory-informed design tips

E-Learning Provocateur

Provide plenty of questions for practice. Provide an epitome of the domain initially, then elaborate. • Provide rich feedback. • Provide your learners with a forum to ask questions and to learn from one another. • Develop an informal VLE to centralise all the resources.

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Online courses must die!

E-Learning Provocateur

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. If we dispense with online courses in favour of PDFs, how can we incorporate interactivity into the learning experience?