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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. OS – Operation system (e.g. DOK – Depth Of Knowledge.

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

While the role of the instructor remains undiminished, students today have several resources at their fingertips, allowing them to take control and self-direct their learning. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).

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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). That is Martin Dougiamas , only the creator and global cat-herder of Moodle , the leading open source LMS and one of the world’s two leading such systems. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century. What would you like to ask?

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3 things you should know about Edupunk

Learning with 'e's

There is also a belief that, just as the music industry of the late 1970s was stagnating, so the education system of the early 21st Century is in need of a reboot. Punk rock revitalised the 70s music scene and, say its adherents, Edupunk can do the same today with our tired education system. Unported License.

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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). That is Martin Dougiamas , only the creator and global cat-herder of Moodle , the leading open source LMS and one of the world’s two leading such systems. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century. What would you like to ask?

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

While the role of the instructor remains undiminished, students today have several resources at their fingertips, allowing them to take control and self-direct their learning. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).

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Learning pathways

Learning with 'e's

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. How can we reach a place in education where students find their own level and make their own pathways through learning?

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