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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. OSS – Open Source Software (programs online that are free to use). VLE – Virtual Learning Environment. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). Based on our Forum and blog conversations, I hope to raise questions about how Moodle software and its supporting community will evolve in response to increasing use of mobile devices, to gamification, to big data, data analytics, personalized learning, and more?

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). Based on our Forum and blog conversations, I hope to raise questions about how Moodle software and its supporting community will evolve in response to increasing use of mobile devices, to gamification, to big data, data analytics, personalized learning, and more?

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

Increasingly academics have no control over their machines, and cannot install or trial new software. There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. Even basic tasks are often highly frustrating and time consuming. What should happen is that staff should be given a choice.

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

Nik Peachey

mobile learning. (5). software. (3). The definitions that people give are more like short narratives, but this is still a useful resource and you can get your students to create their own online dictionary using 12seconds.tv, like this definition of headache Read more about Wordia here: Video Dictionary 2.0 interactive. (7).

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