Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Many teachers welcome the idea of bringing new technology into the classroom. Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. Are your staff on board with this idea? Let me elaborate. Unported License.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I met with my new first year level 3 students and during the session introduced them to the vle. The video has really caused me to stop and think around the whole idea of collaborative eLearning and the problem we are possibly inflicting upon ourselves it seems with issues of plagarism.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 2, 2010

Just into a new round of vle training in Moodle. The problem appeared to be that if staff were slow to take up use of the vle fairly soon following the training, they seemed to loose confidence and I found them returning to the course again the next term or later. We have now completed the rollout and trials.

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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. At the Barcelona PLE Conference we unveiled our ideas in a position paper, which we also share here on this blog.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 18, 2009

So I started by not using college email, but first went to the vle, Moodle, to see what their preferred emails are, surprise surprise, just about all of them were of the form Jbloggs@anyserver.com!

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Moodle Journal

MAY 8, 2012

Having selected your flipped video and material, it is then published to a unique url so that it can be shared either through your vle, e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter, brilliant. Furthermore you can even add additional questions and content to each lesson you choose. So how do you get to track your student activity?

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MAY 3, 2018

Yes, there are differences, but there are also similarities which can be greatly enhanced by crossing disciplines, and this cross over can benefit both individual and employer with fresh ideas, fresh perspective and fresh enthusiasm. Working on implementing a new VLE or LMS for your department or institution?

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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. My first impression is that this really is a better method when it comes to giving complex explanations; ideas can be developed in real time, and lends themselves a more personalised response.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2010

He has some interesting ideas, and I am happy to host these on my own blog. To be honest, at some point in the run up to the ALT-C 2009 conference, I got this idea. 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 :).

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 6, 2010

The idea, is that now teaching staff are beginning to make more use of the vle, which after all is really little more than an e-Learning delivery platform, they should now start to think in terms using it deploy and track learning activities rather than just as a means of distributing course notes, which so often is how these systems end up.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. 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.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

It's great to catch up with all the news, talk over projects, ideas and debates around e-learning with people who are passionate about the topic - you learn a lot like this. 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

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). Let's take this idea a little farther. Tags: VLE Tim O'Reilly PLE naming pidgin concept Web 2.0

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Many have some great ideas to share, and we encourage student blogging very strongly in Plymouth. Check out this little gem from Dan Kennedy on the VLE/PLE debate. I''m a big advocate of student publications. It''s also very motivating for them. Some of my previous students have published in journals in the past few years.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You should be able to do something similar on your own web server, intranet, LMS or VLE. Hopefully you are brimming with ideas about your own learning objects that you will make. All four need to travel together, so I uploaded them to a folder in Dropbox, then linked to the html file. In fact, I have my fingers crossed!

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Learning with e's

MARCH 20, 2013

However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. Collaborative learning does not undermine or contradict personalised learning.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2014

Also, because of more fluid ideas about work and enabling advances in technology, today people expect to be able to strike a greater work-life balance. Food service and facilities management company Sodexo created a virtual learning environment, or VLE, for employee development.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

In this post, I explore Donald Norman''s ideas around the design of every day objects. Norman took this idea and argued that knowledge not only resides in our heads, but also in the world around us. Previous posts in this series are all linked below. That is, not all knowledge for skilled actions needs to be inside your head.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 10, 2006

I have been working on plans to encourage students to adopt the idea of virtual learning communities for the coming academic year. But to be realistic there has to be some sense of virtual value! I naturally intend being part of all this as you can see here.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Instead of imposing his own ideas onto the community, the architect had crowd sourced his design. 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?

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You should be able to do something similar on your own web server, intranet, LMS or VLE. Hopefully you are brimming with ideas about your own learning objects that you will make. All four need to travel together, so I uploaded them to a folder in Dropbox, then linked to the html file. In fact, I have my fingers crossed!

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Learning with e's

JUNE 16, 2009

There are many ideas I will be trying to convey in my paper. Secondly, I will want to reinforce the idea that PLEs, which are developed by individuals rather than through institutes, can be optimised through mashups - combinations and aggregations of tools and services that suit the individuals approach to learning.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2011

These included 'will we see a decline or a rise in the number of edubusinesses' and 'is the institutional VLE compatible with the PLE.' We discussed the idea of bricollage, do-it-yourself education using new tools or repurposing of old ones. The 70 plus audience was great, participating and contributing throughout.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2005

I had an email the other day asking what I thought of the Moodle Object module, no idea, but I quickly got to the posting, click here to see, basically its provides an easy means of incorporating nln type materials into the vle, great. live version of Moodle, though it runs fine with our 1.5.2

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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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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

Our ILT support Danny dream't up the idea of creating a Moodle area for staff as a means of getting more people invloved, featuring: college and Moodle newsletter, photos, Social events like theatre trips and items for sale, it seems to be growing, could be good.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2010

Rob and I talked about Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, which seems to frame this idea, and the notion that people tend to over-analyse content too - with the interesting result that much content tends to mean more to the viewer than to its original creator. Tags: YouTube VLE user generated content pelc10 Minerva Inn.

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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. Optimist for her honest, insightful and thoughtful ideas and comments on Web 2.0 He is @mweller on Twitter. You can find him as @jamesclay on Twitter. tools and their many applications in school settings.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

There are some very innovative ideas in this article. Courses on Facebook By Travis Kaya => If you want to read the article follow the link [link] @cpappas December 2, 2010 1:53 AM wclaire said. December 15, 2010 5:03 AM Christoforos Online said. Hi wclaire, thank you for your comment!

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I talked privately to the music teacher, a liberal American guy who was very cool with the idea of me sitting in the back during his lessons. 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.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Education is about the exchange of ideas, and is not about technology, it is about people, he declared. 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. However, all of this wasn't just fun for fun sake.

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gomo learning

JULY 2, 2015

Course management systems, virtual learning environments (VLE) and learning management systems (LMS) all offer things that are similar in premise, but very different in reality. If you like the idea of staff having constant access to learning. The good news is that this sort of solution can save you money, too.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 28, 2010

After my presentation, I had several approaches from people who wanted to quiz me more about my talk, most blown away by the idea that handheld devices could be used in the ways I had described in my slideshow. Most appeared to be VLE vendors.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2009

This in turn may hasten the death of the ailing institutional VLE. See David Beers blog for more on these ideas. Additionally, with new cloud computing and increased reliability of data storage and retrieval, the mashup is a viable replacement for the portal which will lead to less reliance on centralised provision.

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Academy of Mine

JUNE 9, 2014

Previous articles in this series have covered the ideas of Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and the simple concept of using practical activities as both teaching aids and assessment tools when delivering the content of your course to your students.

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