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Grainne Conole on PLE vs VLE. Not sure I agree with her on the PLE/VLE dimension. I can have a PLE and still have part of that located in a VLE.

Does HE require minimum standards for LMS / VLE use? Post suggests students at least expect so.

Long post and comments on the vle vs the ple by John Fontaine, head of 'Platform Evangelism' at BB. Interesting that he appears to view the vle as a transmitter and instructor driven and I wonder if this then justifies the rest of his thinking on the role of technology.

Article on student use of a VLE /  LMS using data from 2 years of surveys.

" links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website, course blog or VLE/MLE."

Short article on an LMS (VLE) survey among eLearning Guild members.

Moodle training and support site. Has examples of some 3rd party modules.

Key is vlem1 - not sure how public that is!

"From January 2011 Childnet along with the SWGfL and the IWF will be the UK Safer Internet Centre. One of our jobs as the UK Safer Internet Centre is to get as many people involved in Safer Internet Day as possible! We challenge you to think about the Safer Internet Day theme for 2011: Virtual Lives : It's more than a game, it's your life! It's important for all users of the internet to be aware of the consequences of their online actions - both good and bad! Taking care, being safe and responsible online and offline is an important part of child development. Childnet International is producing a Safer Internet Day resource pack to help educators participate in Safer Internet Day. Below is an outline of the target areas related to this year's theme. We hope this will help educators to get thinking and planning for Tuesday 8 February 2011. Alongside this content will be a short film and banners for VLEs from the European commission promoting Safer Internet Day."

In 2008, the M3 project set out to explore the potential of the VLE, Moodle, a Microblogging tool, (Twitter) and the MUVE, Second Life, with three different groups of users within the educational community and compare integrated use of these tools and environments. A key aim was to investigate effective ways of embedding synchronous online tools, which are already establishing themselves as effective for social networking, and exploring the use of others that offer a 3-dimensional opportunity for learning. A Twitter plug-in for Moodle was to be one key deliverable of the project.

Paper omn the work that the OU has been doing to mobilise their web and VLE offerings. Very good.

Slides on things the OU has done to mobilise web and VLE - based around student input. See graph slide 5 on changes in mobile web access.

comprehensive series of 'how to' web pages and short videos for Moodle 2 

"What I mean by 'enterprise LMS' is the legacy model of the LMS as a smaller, academically-facing version of the ERP. This model was based on monolithic, full-featured software systems that could be hosted on-site or by a managed hosting provider. A 'learning platform', by contrast, does not contain all the features in itself and is based on cloud computing - multi-tenant, software as a service (SaaS)."

Constructive post about the ills of the LMS

A great analytical history of LMS development by Dave Kernohan.

Decrying the LMS. More in this months debate on whether we should have LMS's or not.

Brian Lamb surveys the recent posts in the LMS Must Go debate.

Another case study of increasing teacher engagement with online teaching through a graded 'awards' system.  Going for positive reinforcement rather than a compliance model while still suggesting that there should be a minimum standard.