Comments on: Moving to a more agile VLE http://erambler.co.uk/2009/08/19/moving-to-a-more-agile-vle/ Jez Cope's e-learning blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Looking back on a year of blogging « e-Rambler http://erambler.co.uk/2009/08/19/moving-to-a-more-agile-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Looking back on a year of blogging « e-Rambler Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:26:00 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-158 <p>[...] Then, of course, there are posts which fall into both categories, such as my contribution to the debate on the death or otherwise of the VLE. [...]</p> [...] Then, of course, there are posts which fall into both categories, such as my contribution to the debate on the death or otherwise of the VLE. [...]

]]> By: Jez http://erambler.co.uk/2009/08/19/moving-to-a-more-agile-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Jez Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:10:53 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-85 <p>Hi Chris, thanks for your detailed and thoughtful comment. Will you be attending the ALT-C workshop in Manchester? It sounds like I wish I could, but I couldn't make the conference this year.</p> <p>That's a very suggestive result about middle class kids making progress in the holidays. It sounds like we're going to need to work harder to bring the internet into working-class households or find another route to informal learning; probably both. I'd quite like to read the report if you could give me a link to it please?</p> Hi Chris, thanks for your detailed and thoughtful comment. Will you be attending the ALT-C workshop in Manchester? It sounds like I wish I could, but I couldn’t make the conference this year.

That’s a very suggestive result about middle class kids making progress in the holidays. It sounds like we’re going to need to work harder to bring the internet into working-class households or find another route to informal learning; probably both. I’d quite like to read the report if you could give me a link to it please?

]]> By: chris bradley http://erambler.co.uk/2009/08/19/moving-to-a-more-agile-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-79 chris bradley Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:04:26 +0000 http://allacademic.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-79 <p>The notion that the VLE is dead is totally mistaken. In the last two years VLE use has exploded in secondary schools. True it is a result of government pressure but some schools are experimenting with greater levels of integration. I know of several schools that have their own VLE (usually Moodle) developers employed on site. Resources created by my school have been shared with about 200 schools and are used by about 20 000 students. The subjects of interest and discussion are - what works, what doesn't, how can integration be moved forward. It is possible to see ways forward that will make VLEs (or whatever is a usefule acronym) really move into a higher gear. At the moment all students are offered the same resources althought their preferences are different. Rather like soviet era shops. VLEs cry out for the integration of AI to detect the pattern of feedback and alter the type of resources. There is a need for fine granularity of resources and appropriate tagging and that needs agreement on tagging.</p> <p>Research shows that the difference in performance between middle class and working class children takes place during the holidays, where working class kids move back and the middle class kids continue to make progress albeit slower. At my school 20% of access to the VLE takes place away from school. Students were online all the way through the summer break.</p> <p>What we all need to know is what is best practice. Content authors and providers repeat methods for creating content without verifying its effectiveness. To a significant extent the content form is technology lead - captivate works this way so that is how resources are authored. VLEs are the beginning of a step change in teaching, it will need to be associated with all students having permanent access to computers. To date development has been centered on the technology, what is now needed is for that technology to become tranparent and organisation to be centered on the user, the student.</p> <p>The VLE is not dead it has only just begun and has a substantial future that careers can be built on.</p> <p>.-= chris bradley´s last blog ..<a href="http://moodlexchange.com/blog-moodle-installation/:" rel="nofollow">Blog Moodle Installation</a> =-.</p> The notion that the VLE is dead is totally mistaken. In the last two years VLE use has exploded in secondary schools. True it is a result of government pressure but some schools are experimenting with greater levels of integration. I know of several schools that have their own VLE (usually Moodle) developers employed on site. Resources created by my school have been shared with about 200 schools and are used by about 20 000 students. The subjects of interest and discussion are – what works, what doesn’t, how can integration be moved forward. It is possible to see ways forward that will make VLEs (or whatever is a usefule acronym) really move into a higher gear. At the moment all students are offered the same resources althought their preferences are different. Rather like soviet era shops. VLEs cry out for the integration of AI to detect the pattern of feedback and alter the type of resources. There is a need for fine granularity of resources and appropriate tagging and that needs agreement on tagging.

Research shows that the difference in performance between middle class and working class children takes place during the holidays, where working class kids move back and the middle class kids continue to make progress albeit slower. At my school 20% of access to the VLE takes place away from school. Students were online all the way through the summer break.

What we all need to know is what is best practice. Content authors and providers repeat methods for creating content without verifying its effectiveness. To a significant extent the content form is technology lead – captivate works this way so that is how resources are authored. VLEs are the beginning of a step change in teaching, it will need to be associated with all students having permanent access to computers. To date development has been centered on the technology, what is now needed is for that technology to become tranparent and organisation to be centered on the user, the student.

The VLE is not dead it has only just begun and has a substantial future that careers can be built on.

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