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Top 10 virtual classroom platforms

Ed App

This platform gives learners a lot of agency in their education, as they can construct their own personal learning environment (PLE). This platform offers teachers a way to create lessons that are fun for younger learners. Creating lessons is easy with a drag-and-drop interface that lets educators set down paths for their learners.

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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with e's

Standardised tests are administered by schools who ignore the fact that all students are different, and bells continually punctuate the timetable, dividing the school day up into an unconnected parade of subjects, each delivered in content heavy lessons. ELI_2015 connectivism education learning MOOC PLE Stephen Downes Technology'

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Top 113 eLearning Posts and 28 Hottest Topics for 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Anatomy of a PLE - Learning with e’s , July 11, 2010. HOLD THE FRONT PAGE - PLE’s need Teachers - Learnadoodledastic , September 23, 2010. Lesson I: Making your own Custom Articulate Player | LearnNuggets - LearnNuggets , May 20, 2010. Taxonomy of Learning Theories - E-Learning Provocateur , January 12, 2010.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

Some teachers here use Orkut to teach English or to get in touch with other professionals to share ideas, lesson plans and so on. Conversation included LinkedIn, Ning, MySpace, Orkut, PLE, Plurk, Utterli, Twitter, Elgg, Xing, Edmoto, wow, there are a lot of these things to consider. I don't know about ning or even facebook.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World

Learning Visions

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.) There are plenty of opportunities for learning: usually its at least one lesson a day in patience and deep-breathing.

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Off the rails?

Learning with e's

There is a timetable that all school lessons and schemes of work run to. There is no deviation from the track (unless there is a disaster and there is a derailment - trains run on the rails), and generally there is a prescribed timetable that dictates the schedule of arrivals and departures of all trains in the network.

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

Community Portals , April 3, 2009 Looking back at lessons learned from community portals (2005) I would say that the transactional portal is the only one that still makes any sense to me: Transactional: sites which are accessible, complete, thoughtful, and coherent; and with more than one type of on-line interaction (e.g.