EdTech4Beginners
APRIL 2, 2017
MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). VLE – Virtual Learning Environment. The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. In fact, this list will be up to date for a few hours and then more acronyms and terms will come along!
Bryan Alexander
MAY 18, 2022
Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there.
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Learning with 'e's
MARCH 20, 2013
You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place. MOOCs take learning even farther away from the classroom. Technology spaces education classroom MOOCs collaborative learning school flipped classroom
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). The C-MOOC or Connectivist Massive Open Online Course was a free at the point of delivery online learning experience with no limits to the numbers who participated, and where 'students' could choose how, where and when they learnt.
ViewSonic Education
DECEMBER 27, 2018
Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. These materials can be easily distributed via a School’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or through more open sources like YouTube and Vimeo channels. A more significant function of the flipped classroom approach was recently seen in Ashford School (UK) in which teachers offered lessons to students via the Firefly VLE.
Learning with 'e's
JUNE 11, 2015
He has set up a number of alternative learning experiences, but most notably, his MOOC on digital storytelling, more commonly known as ds106, has had tremendous impact on what we now consider to be possible with global, networked learning. Tracing the history of online open learning, Groom talked about MOOCs emerging in 2008, which were about syndication, open networks, and about self organising communities building new practice for the web.
Hack Education
APRIL 30, 2020
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.
Hack Education
APRIL 3, 2017
This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). ” I made that selection in part because several ed-tech companies indicated that year that this was what they hoped to become – the MOOC startups, for example, as well as Edmodo, a social network marketed to K–12 schools. In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps.
Learning with 'e's
APRIL 16, 2015
Don''t get me wrong, it wasn''t like MOOCs or anything, but it was a pretty strong response from a simple blog post. None of this happens in an LMS (or VLE), in fact, that systematic design of that system is anathema to all of these crucial elements of educating in the digital era. What is the secret behind the success of MOOCs? Not sure MOOCs are a success, do we have any real sense of that?
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