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What’s the Difference Between a VLE and an LMS?

KnowledgeAnywhere

Because it’s growing in size, you can’t be surprised to learn an onslaught of relevant acronyms daily - VLE… LMS… or what about SCORM and XAPI ? In this article, we’ll discuss the features of both VLE and LMS, the similarities and advantages of each type of virtual learning, and how to decide on the correct type of virtual learning for you.

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Change the title, change the work?

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

I’ve been looking at opportunities on job boards (more on this another time) and have been looking at the requirements and roles for Instructional Designers. Based on the role profile and job description, it got me thinking; “Well, that’s what I’ve been doing isn’t it? .”

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Learning Technologists as Project Managers too

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

As I work my way through job boards and role profiles in my effort to avoid my recent redundancy and the impending doom of an empty bank account (yes, really) I have found a lot of roles being advertised with headline grabbing titles and/or impressive requirements. Working on implementing a new VLE or LMS for your department or institution?

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New eProjects

Moodle Journal

First they will require a platform where they can store images, resources, post messages, and communicate, so that looks like a Moodle job. So it looks like I will have some OpenSim training to deliver, hopefully in-world, excellent. Then, and real good news for me, they have requested access to a virtual world!

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The New-School Virtual Leader

CLO Magazine

In the 2013 workplace, work happens anywhere: the office, a client’s office, a friend’s office, a coffee shop, the airport, a hotel room, on a train or in a garden. Today, a business can train its entire workforce on the same day. It’s not all about technology.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

These were mostly mature and part-time students who held substantive posts in training agencies, colleges and universities, and in community adult education centres, the military, National Health Service , the police force and the prison service. Some were itinerant because of the nature of their jobs. Continues tomorrow. Yeomans, P.

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Totara: re-shaping Moodle for corporate use

Clive on Learning

Last week I asked Can the ‘big LMS’ break clear of formal training? - A typical VLE is designed to support formal academic courses, whether face-to-face, online or blended. So it has been more than a little surprising to me over the past few years to see Moodle, an open-source VLE, used so enthusiastically by corporates.

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