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Some VLE thoughts

Some VLE thoughts. Martin Weller. Outline. The VLE choices Current state of play Tools and pedagogies Technology succession VLE 2.0. The VLE choices. In-house development Commercial VLE Open Source Service oriented architecture. Current state of play.

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Some VLE thoughts

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  1. Some VLE thoughts Martin Weller

  2. Outline • The VLE choices • Current state of play • Tools and pedagogies • Technology succession • VLE 2.0

  3. The VLE choices • In-house development • Commercial VLE • Open Source • Service oriented architecture

  4. Current state of play • OECD/OBHE 2004 survey in 13 countries • All had VLE • 37% have institution-wide VLE • 90% expect to have single VLE in next 5 years • 52% use commercial system • Rest use combination of in-house and open source • No institution had just OS • 31% had portal • 6.6% had CMS

  5. Changing times • Nearly all institutions had moved to an institution-wide system. • Few institutions operated an in-house solution. • The VLEs will be divided equally between commercial and open source solutions. • Specialization and localization will occur through the use of services.

  6. A flexibility continuum SAKAI Standards Commercial VLE OS SOA

  7. Moodle as reasonable compromise • Gain: • Functionality • Time • Community • Profile • Flexibility • Technical consensus • Lose: • Some flexibility • Some control

  8. VLE as toolset • Conferencing • Content • Tracking • Assignment handling • Assessment • Synchronous tools • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasting • Social bookmarking • Eportfolio

  9. Trends • Technologies are not developed for use within education • There is a move towards socially focused tools and away from content-focused ones • Technologies move from niche to mainstream in a short time frame • The tools occupy a specific communication niche

  10. Match to pedagogy • Conferencing • Content • Tracking • Assignment handling • Assessment • Synchronous tools • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasting • Social bookmarking • Eportfolio • Community of Practice • Resource based learning • Peer learning • Content-led/Instructivist • Complex learning • Problem-based learning • Collaborative learning • Instructor-led

  11. Conferencing Synchronous tools Community of Practice Content: Range of resources Wikis Blogs Personal file store Technology clusters

  12. Plant succession

  13. Technology succession “technological environments are not merely passive containers of people but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike” (McLuhan 1962)

  14. Web 2.0 Users must be treated as co-developers, … The open source dictum, “release early and release often” in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, “the perpetual beta,” in which the product is developed in the open, with new features slipstreamed in on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis…. • Both an approach and a set of technologies • Web as platform • Harnessing collective intelligence • Evolutionary development • Lightweight programming models This time, though, the clash isn't between a platform and an application, but between two platforms, each with a radically different business model: On the one side, a single software provider, whose massive installed base and tightly integrated operating system and APIs give control over the programming paradigm; on the other, a system without an owner, tied together by a set of protocols, open standards and agreements for cooperation “users add value and the technology or site needs to be set up so that it encourages participation”

  15. VLE 2.0 • How would a VLE 2.0 be constructed? • Service oriented • Tools tested and released • Standards based • Unique configurations • Incorporate external tools • Localized configurations • Personalised • What does web 2.0 education feel like? • Students as co-creators • Reuse • Less rigid boundaries • Social

  16. Question • What would a VLE be like to ideally meet your needs?

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