E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 2, 2013

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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Learning with e's

JULY 13, 2011

Online material can be saved, tagged, categorized, and repurposed without difficulty." For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or sadly, no web based use at all) is an alternative. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not. Certainly not the VLE. Unported License.

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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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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2012

If you have been around the Mood le vle or for that matter any vle for a while, then you will have I am sure over the years developed and or deployed in support of eLearning various scorm packages.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2009

Anyone with a modicum of insight will see that there are several parallels here with the battle between the institutional VLE and Edupunk style ‘do-it-yourselves’ personal web tools. The institutional VLE is led by the entire institution and is therefore slow to respond to change, whilst the personal web is led by one user.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 12, 2009

Online material can be saved, tagged, categorized, and repurposed without difficulty." 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.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 25, 2009

This symposium will propose that the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) as an institutional tool is dead, no more, defunct, expired. The first panel member, Steve Wheeler , will argue that many VLEs are not fit for purpose, and masquerade as solutions for the management of online learning. There's gonna be a fight.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

There were some interesting and captivating debates on Day 1, including of course, the epic VLE is Dead debate (see the video above) which was attended by approximately 150 people, all squeezed into a room fit for 80 so that many had to sit on the floor or stand at the back. Tags: e-learning PLE #altc2009 VLE is dead.

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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. This is different from a PLE, a VLE and a PTE. There is a shorter version of this post too.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Names are too numerous to mention right now, but I'm going to present a symposium entitled 'The VLE is Dead' later on, along with Graham Attwell, James Clay and Nick Sharratt. I will give a eulogy on the VLE - I come to bury it, not to praise it. Tags: VLE Nick Sharratt Steve Wheeler Graham Attwell #altc2009.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Social software is based heavily on participation, and this is apparent in a number of features including social tagging , voting, versioning, hyperlinking and searching, as well as discussion and commenting. blogs disruptive innovation education higher education learning social web Technology the future of education VLE wikis'

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2009

Dan's article is entitled: ' Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs): here to stay, or on the brink of demise? ' It is a provocative take on the current state of play of the VLE, and he comes to some interesting conclusions. Recent literature and personal blogs are used to understand how the VLE as a concept is understood.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

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). Tags: VLE Tim O'Reilly PLE naming pidgin concept Web 2.0 is a case in point. representation.

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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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Learning with e's

JUNE 21, 2009

There has been a lot of talk recently about PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) and everyone it seems, wants to know what they are, what they contain, or if they will replace current institutional VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) or LMS (Learning Management System) provision. No one seems to be able to agree on what a PLE is.

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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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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? Tags: Twitter social media social networking blogging cartoon humour participatory culture twibes. • Australian_eLearning. • mLearning.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I'm also speaking in the fringe event F-ALT entitled WTF Edupunk , where I will try to show how the punk rock ideology has parallels with contemporary thinking about going outside the walled garden of the institutional VLE to use free, open content, social software tools. The movement behind this idea is referred to by many as Edupunk.

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Learning with e's

MAY 10, 2009

Tags: mobile phones blog VLE IFIP Second Life Web 3.0 I also discuss issues surrounding usability, accessibility, social presence, peer networking and the future of learning technology. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. wiki Steve Wheeler Twitter Web 2.0 mashup OLPC.

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 8, 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. Many vendors state “LMS&# , even though it comes with a content authoring tool and additional features – this is a trend. I was the ghost. E-Learning 24/7.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2009

Thirdly, I will revisit the idea that mashup PLEs will rival and perhaps ultimately supplant the institutional Learning Management System (LMS) or VLE. Tags: microblogging VLE PLE Twitter mashup icl 2009. I will outline and expand upon my reasons for this belief based on some of my recent blog posts.

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Saffron Interactive

AUGUST 27, 2010

Just like Linux and the Linux community of experts, the success of Moodle is based on a set of open-source assumptions that need to be managed and modified for its successful deployment as an enterprise-wide VLE. Tags: Blog Moodle Moodle LMS.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2010

Tags: YouTube VLE user generated content pelc10 Minerva Inn. Perhaps this is an effect we should consider a little more when we come to evaluate the relevance, reliability and puspose of user generated content: 'The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacru is true.'

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2009

Tags: VLE PLE mashup JISC self-organisation. In the afternoon I'm also member of an expert panel with James Clay, Derek Law and John McKenzie. That's it for now. I'm off to hear the keynote. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It is the PLE that enables learners to transcend the often stifling nature of the institutional VLE to make their own creative choices about tool selection and formation of digital presence and identity. Tags: Tillman Swinke PLE formal learning motivation informal learning. Now that's interesting.

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eLearning Cyclops

APRIL 2, 2010

Tagged either under Development Tools or Cloud. I also like to make occasional visits to Google Labs and Adobe Labs to "keep up" with the tech tools they are working on and to test drive any beta versions available. When I do find interesting tools I will keep track of them using my Delicious account.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

I've worked for many years with Moodle and Blackboard, but have had absolutely no contact with Sakai, so what he had to show us was interesting: In the development of version 3, they have borrowed ideas from social media sites and built these ideas into the VLE, rather than "going out into the wild."

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

They were between Graham Brown-Martin and others who were discussing the use of VLEs in education. The ALT-C 'VLE is Dead' Symposium got a mention, as did my reference to the work of anarchist philosopher Ivan Illich. Always an emotive subject, the BECTA discussion on the institutional VLE descended to the level of name-calling.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

For me, the most influential blog post of the year contained the video (Movie) of the ALT-C debate on the death of the VLE. Tags: Josie Fraser James Clay Martin Weller Alec Couros Donna Hay David Hopkins. He is @mweller on Twitter. For anyone of the few left who are not following her, she is @josiefraser on Twitter. That's me done.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It's not the VLE vs the PLE. Tags: blog ALT-C 2009 F-ALT Cloudworks Twitter. There's going to be another fight. This time it's whether Twitter is killing blogging. Strewth, it's like waiting for a bus. You stand around for ages and then suddenly two big debates come along at once. Danny Brown) Is Twitter killing blogs and blogging?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Both subject areas are benefiting greatly from these ICT uses at South Dartmoor, and they have other very interesting projects involving their Moodle VLE also. Tags: Art teaching e-learning Physical Education ICT dartfish south dartmoor community college.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2009

tools in teaching (wikis, blogs, podcasting, Facebook, YouTube), papers on mobile technology, Second Life, the VLE vs the PLE debate, aggregation, transnational perspectives on e-learning, e-assessment and e-portfolios, audience response systems, collaborative content management, and even a paper on terrorism and the web! Should be fun.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2009

This in turn may hasten the death of the ailing institutional VLE. I speculated on Twitter's functionality and suggested that through its primitive filtering tools such as RT, DM, @ and #tagging, we are witnessing some of the early semantic features that enable users to work smarter and more collaboratively.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

While arguably less controversial than last year's VLE is Dead debate, the symposium still attracted over 100 delegates, and there was some cut and thrust from all those involved. Tags: e-learning Edublogger learning technology ALT-C 2010 altc2010. interventions and research. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2010

PLE will triumph over VLE. Tags: heretics Seth Godin Edupunk leadership Tribes. I strongly support user generated content as an effective means of supporting learning. Who's to say that txt language is inferior to standard English? And let's allow children to use mobile phones in schools.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 11, 2008

There has been much rhetoric over how academics are increasingly disenchanted with institutional VLE provision and are subscribing to a 'doing it yourself' approach. Tags: student learning e-learning JISC Edupunk social software UCISA. Where will it all end? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 28, 2010

Most appeared to be VLE vendors. Again, the VLE companies were speaking in another language - this one more akin to Latin or ancient Greek, so I quickly left the arena. Tags: Stephen Heppell LT10UK Lord David Puttnam jane hart Donald Taylor barry sampson. And guess what?

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