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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Create Collaborative Virtual Learning Spaces from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Check out your VLE and see what tools and features already support collaboration and creativity. Does your VLE have forums, offer badges, or allow you to embed? If you are deciding on a VLE, consider the following. What are your students’ ages?

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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Given the state of many of these courses, it’s no wonder that drop out rates for online learning are so high.

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

Learning with 'e's

One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. Unported License.

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS). It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has given a major boost to online education.

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS). It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has given a major boost to online education.

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

learning. (2). mobile learning. (5). online learning. (2). knowledge sharing. (5). language exchange. (1). lesson plan. (1). listening skills. (14). machinima. (6). microblogging. (2). multimedia. (1). narrative. (4). personal homepage. (1). project work. (7). pronunciation. (4). questions forms. (1). reading skills. (5).

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Casey sees it not as a tool for learning, nor much of an administrative tool, but a content dissemination platform, “like a supermarket scanner” (cites Cat Finnegan’s research in the Virginia community college system).

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