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What Is a Virtual Learning Environment? (VLE)

Webanywhere

With technology advancing quickly, many businesses and organisations now use VLEs to create flexible and accessible learning experiences for people of all ages. The primary purpose of a VLE is to make learning easier, no matter where learners are. Another benefit of VLEs is collaborative learning.

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VLE's and poor attendance

Moodle Journal

I was surprised by the concerns expressed in the recent HE Forum about VLE’s leading to reduced attendance. The question posted was:- Using a VLE might lead to a reduction in attendance. And so an emailed was circulated to a national list, not by myself I must add, to see if this is generally seen as a problem.

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Using Moodle as a VLE

Moodle Journal

My own presentation came under the theme of transforming teaching and learning and featured a recent trial that I conducted with level 4 students in an attempt to realise the Social Constructive potential of Moodle as a VLE.

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Theory-informed design tips

E-Learning Provocateur

• Provide your learners with a forum to ask questions and to learn from one another. The forum may be synchronous or asynchronous, or both. • Develop an informal VLE to centralise all the resources. • Encourage the learner to integrate the VLE into a broader PLE. • Encourage discovery learning.

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End of Year Conference

Moodle Journal

I was asked this week to provide a short session on using our Moodle vle for the for our end of year Teaching and Learning Conference here at the College. As you will have read from other posts on this blog I am taking every opportunity to provide the widest expose possible for Wimba Create this academic year, so the second half is sorted.

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Well worth a Listen

Moodle Journal

Since I first began to make use of the Moodle vle here at college one of the activities that I bought into very early was the use of Forums. So how about your own use of forums?

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Moodle training news

Moodle Journal

sessions for our Moodle vle. Of all the aspects in using the vle that we covered today -Forums and Chat seemed to attract the most enthusiasm and time, all very good, and often amusing. I think I could a make tentative assumption from this that for many staff the idea of training during term time is still difficult to manage.

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