Downloads and links
This page has useful downloads and links, relevant to the conference
and to VLEs and learning platforms. Like other pages on this site,
it will be updated regularly.
- Guidance drawn from the proceedings of our first VLE online
conference, 2004:
Beyond the fringes, and into the mainstream. PDF file.
- A report co-authored with Bob Powell, on Choosing
and Using a Learning Platform in Adult and Community Learning
- A presentation on the advantages of online conferencing. Open
audio version, or open
non-audio version - these play PowerPoint slides in a web
browser; be sure to click on the notes button.
- A module for the NIACE e-guides programme, on learning platforms
Open
the presentation - this plays PowerPoint slides in a web browser;
be sure to click on the notes button. Best to pause it and advance
the slides manually by clicking on the slide titles in the player.
- How not to introduce a VLE - very old now, but still relevant.
Download
here.
- Design for Learning in Virtual Learning Environments - Insider
Perspectives: the final report from this study by Mira Vogel,
Goldsmiths College, University of London and Martin Oliver, Institute
of Education, is now available at www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_ldevalgoldsmiths.html
- An evaluation of using Moodle in a primary school, by Miles
Berry, is available at http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk/pubs/milesberry.htm
and his blog is at http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog/11617.html
- James Dalziel has produced some excellent demonstrations of
LAMS, with walk throughs and audio. See http://www.lamsinternational.com/documents/1.0/winks/
We also have a list
of VLE consultants These are independent consultants, other
than Direct Learn, who offer some sort of VLE related service.
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