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Blended Learning Initiative The Blended Learning Initiative is a University-wide effort funded by the Provost to enhance the undergraduate experience by creating both online and hybrid versions of key Penn State courses. These re-designed courses will improve instructional effectiveness and increase flexibility of course offerings for both students and faculty.

List of resources including conferences from professional organizations, training events, and scholarly articles.

The purposes of the project are set out in the Call to Action issued by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft at the Learning and Technology World Forum in London on 13 January 2009. A briefer statement is provided in the Policy Brief. The purposes of the project are to: Mobilize international educational, political and business communities to make the transformation of educational assessment and, hence, instructional practice a global priority. Specify in measurable terms high-priority understanding and skills needed by productive and creative workers and citizens of the 21st Century. Identify methodological and technological barriers to ICT-based assessment. Develop and pilot new assessment methodologies. Examine and recommend innovative ICT-enabled, classroom-based learning environments and formative assessments that support the development of 21st Century skills.

An open sim version of Second Life - you may call it Second Life 'lite'

Many HEIs and FE colleges wish to bring together their online learning systems and their information systems to create learner-centred Managed Learning Environments (MLEs). This 'joining up' of systems requires to use of cutting edge new technologies. To support and inform the HE and FE communities in this aim, JISC, through JCIEL, has funded a development programme that will prove the integration of technologies across different functions of higher education.

A film about the use of Moodle as a VLE in both further education colleges and work-based learning, highlighting the experiences of Thanet College in Kent and A+ Training in Plymouth.

Evaluating VLEs

The phenomenal rise of e-learning in the last ten years has taken place against a complex backdrop of cultural and social change, advances in technology and shifts in educational theory and practice.

Virtual learning environments (VLEs) use computers to allow remote access to learning materials. As the routine use of computers becomes all pervasive, there is an expectation that VLEs will form a significant part of the next generation's experience of learning. This survey evaluates how VLEs are developing within a selection of providers.

The Moodle 2.0 development space

The new Moodle 2.0 community Hub

Julian Ridden's Moodleman blog - find here links to the Moodle Playpen where you to can look at demos of Moodle 2.0 while its still in Alpha testing