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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). OSS – Open Source Software (programs online that are free to use). SIS – Student Information System (the software used in a school to manage data such as scores, attendance, medical issues etc.). VLE – Virtual Learning Environment.

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

Kitaboo on EdTech

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). The software is structured to organize information in a way that makes it easily accessible to all users. 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). 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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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). The software is structured to organize information in a way that makes it easily accessible to all users. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).

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

Learning with 'e's

Social software is based heavily on participation, and this is apparent in a number of features including social tagging , voting, versioning, hyperlinking and searching, as well as discussion and commenting. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W. Wheeler (Ed.)

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