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

Learning with 'e's

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. blogs disruptive innovation education higher education learning social web Technology the future of education VLE wikis' Unported License.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

The last thing they want is their lecturer hanging around like Dad at a disco when they want to talk frankly and openly about their courses, assessment results or what they got up to in the small hours of the night. However, bear in mind that most VLEs have online discussion threads that all of the group can see and read.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

These materials can be easily distributed via a School’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or through more open sources like YouTube and Vimeo channels. Applications such as EdPuzzle or Nearpod have become a valuable addition of self-paced learning with interaction and tracking student’s assessment within video based material.

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Rubicon Atlas, Schoolbox integrate curriculum with learning management

eSchool News

The collaboration will enable a bilateral approach to developing an integration between Atlas and the LMS/virtual learning environment (VLE) provided by Schoolbox. Further, the integration will see that both Alaress and Rubicon International provide a single sign on (SSO) approach to seamlessly move users between the two software products.

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

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). I would argue that these are 'punk' educators, whether they realise it or not.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. The base curriculum is aligned with the Common Core, and each course includes meaningful projects, playlists of content and assessments, all of which can be customized. They’re silos, where all your actions can be tracked and monetized.

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