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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Selfie was the word of the year for 2013 (Brumfield, 2013). 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. Selfie named word of the year for 2013.

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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Many of the other commercially available LMS (learning management systems) and VLE (virtual learning environment) platforms aren’t doing any better. Moodle has been around now since 2002 and research carried out in 2013 showed that more than 7.3 And of course Moodle isn’t the only culprit.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC," with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity.

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'Education Technology's Completely Over'

Hack Education

Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE). ” Prince was, no doubt, notorious for demanding that bootleg versions of his songs and his performances be removed from the Web.