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

Learning with e's

These were mostly mature and part-time students who held substantive posts in training agencies, colleges and universities, and in community adult education centres, the military, National Health Service , the police force and the prison service. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software.

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Wisdom of clouds

Learning with e's

There were many people at a session titled " the VLE is Dead " hosted by James Clay, Josie Fraser, Graham Attwell, Nick Sharratt and Steve Wheeler aka Timbuckteeth :). Martin Weller blogged about the death of VLE/LMS too in Nov 2007. to quote Scott, "courses taught using contemporary social software/web 2.0

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The Emperor's new clothes?

Learning with e's

contention is that every (yes, every) benefit of the institutional VLE for the learner can be obtained elsewhere with a little thought, using combinations of other information and communication technology tools which are freely and publicly available and already transparent to the target learner.

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Edupunk stalks the institution.

Learning with e's

There has been much rhetoric over how academics are increasingly disenchanted with institutional VLE provision and are subscribing to a 'doing it yourself' approach. Students are also voting with their feet, with many preferring to use social networking tools such as Facebook to communicate in place of the institutional e-mail system.