Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

So I started asking around, bugging individuals and querying social media. Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. The results fascinated me. Looks like a GUI interface.

Moodle 116

Moodle LMS Sakai VLE 116

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. If they wished to change this kind of restrictive provision and depose the ‘tyranny of the institutional VLE’, universities would need to undergo a radical shift in policy.

Wiki 54

Wiki VLE Education Social Media 54

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

This online monitoring includes tracking students' social media accounts, "listening" for menacing keywords and phrases. Social media monitoring tools that are used to surveil students are also used to surveil workers, identifying those who might be on the cusp of organizing or striking. Who's cheating the boss.

Software 142

Software ProctorU Company Data 142

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. The advent of social media, mobile communications and digital media facilitate large, unbounded personal learning networks that mimic the characteristics of rhizomes.

VLE 69

VLE Learning Personal Learning Network Social Media 69

Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2023

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). Students can use platforms such as chat, social media channels and online forums to learn, discuss, and debate in a more collaborative, interactive, and personal learning environment.

Digital Learning 52

Digital Learning VLE Learning LMS 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). Students can use platforms such as chat, social media channels and online forums to learn, discuss, and debate in a more collaborative, interactive, and personal learning environment.

Digital Learning 52

Digital Learning VLE Learning LMS 52

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

The lyrics in the latter, which some argue presage social media – okay, sure – but perhaps more aptly simply reflect someone who was active in (or at least aware of) the discussion forums and chatrooms of the 1990s: I scan my computer looking 4 a site.

Technology 73

Technology Education VLE Industry 73

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Spontaneous network connections, incorporating social media into physical spaces, the use of digital repositories such as Wikipedia, all seemed radical several years ago. He asked the question 'how do we build an architecture that allows us to aggregate content from across the web and coalesce it in a centralised hub for learners?'

MOOC 28

MOOC VLE LMS Social Media 28

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 1, 2016

We discussed the evolution of social media in higher education and also how institutional virtual learning environments (learning management systems) are being developed to cope with new demands of new learners.

Game-Based Learning 28

Game-Based Learning Social Media Technology Support System 28

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). Learning by watching YouTube or participation in social media discussions are certainly methods that are gaining traction.

MOOC 28

MOOC VLE Learning Social Media 28

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. Platforms enable and are enabled by APIs, by data collection and transference, by data analysis and data storage, by a marketplace of data (with users creating the data and users as the product). ” Platforms are not substitutes for community.

Trends 66

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 66