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TOPIC: Virtual learning environments [RSS]
Including MLEs, VLEs, LMSs and so on

TOPIC GROUP: Learning technologies
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Unbolting the Chairs:Making Learning Management Systems More Flexible
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials&artic
le=22-1
  • Sensible article by Michael Feldstein on the limitations of most varieties of LMS and the need for better ways of making mashups

Created: Thursday June 8th 2006

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Pathlore
http://www.pathlore.com/customer/products/index.asp
  • Yet another commercial offering with few distinguishing features. Fairly popular in commercial circles. They say...
    Pathlore Learning Management System (LMS) is a single integrated platform that is available in several product configurations with differing levels of functionality. This struct...more

Created: Monday April 10th 2006

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Jenzabar
http://www.jenzabar.com/
  • An interesting suite of tools that includes a passable LMS but which unusually integrates CRM and other tools, with a strong management and enterprise connectivity focus.

Created: Tuesday May 10th 2005

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The Knowledge Garden (Jasper)
http://www.quizxml.com/people/JohnDavies/papers/kgarden5.htm
  • Article by Crossley et al describing an extraordinary system which takes the metaphor of a garden very literally

Created: Sunday September 26th 2004

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Unype Virtual World
http://unype.com/#
  • Unype is a great idea, albeit one that needs a little work before it is really useful. It attempts to be a kind of Second Life that runs in Google Earth (yes, you can meet people anywhere in the world) and allows access via your social networks (several supported, including the obvious ones, more to...more

Created: Sunday December 9th 2007

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VLE - Survey
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/tlig/vle/index_html
  • Fascinating in depth longitudinal survey of VLE use in HE institutions in the UK.

Created: Thursday December 29th 2005

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Using Moodle
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~acc/Moodle/MoodleFaculty/MoodleFacT
utorials/UsingMoodle.htm
  • A nice online book from AUB for faculty describing how to use Moodle.

Created: Tuesday February 6th 2007

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Claroline.net - Open Source eLearning
http://www.claroline.net/
  • Claroline is a free application based on PHP/MySQL allowing teachers or education organizations to create and administrate courses through the web.

    Developped from teachers to teachers, Claroline is built over sound pedagogical principles allowing a large variety of pedagogical setup ...more

Created: Thursday March 9th 2006

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Dokeos
http://www.dokeos.com/index.php
  • Very well specified free system which includes some basic but effective web conferencing/webinar functionality

Created: Saturday October 23rd 2004

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Nuvvo Free On-demand eLearning
http://nuvvo.com/
  • Interesting, hosted, web 2.0 sort of a system

Created: Thursday April 13th 2006

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issue1-art21-beasley-smythe.pdf (application/pdf Object)
http://www.ejel.org/volume-2/vol2-issue1/issue1-art21-beasle
y-smythe.pdf
  • Interesting paper describing a typical and rather unwise use of an LMS within an institutional environment, but saved by some sensible reflections on why it is so bad.

Created: Thursday January 19th 2006

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e-learning Open Source docebo LMS - E-Learning platform, Distance Learning
http://www.docebolms.org/doceboCms/index.php
  • The Docebo project combines a learning management system (LMS), content management system (CMS), and knowledge management system (KMS) in one suite, available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The integration of these components into a single suite saves users a lot of time, and provides ...more

Created: Thursday March 9th 2006

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Blackboard Patent Pledge
http://www.blackboard.com/patent
  • It is nice to know that outrage (and some increasingly unequivocal evidence that Blackboard would find it very difficult to defend their ludicrous patent against an outraged community) and the plummeting popularity of BlackCT has had an effect on the People from the Dark Side. So we can now all brea...more

Created: Thursday February 1st 2007

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PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community
http://www.thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
  • All about one of the earliest learning environments, predating the Web by decades

Created: Saturday January 7th 2006

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2006: the year of Moodle
http://www.epic.co.uk/content/news/dec_06/moodle.htm
  • Article from Epic discussing benefits of open source and Moodle's rise and rise: suggests a greater market penetration than BlackCT

Created: Tuesday January 2nd 2007

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Dwellings
http://edtech.it.bton.ac.uk/dwellings/
  • Dwellings is a new kind of virtual learning environment, a kind of collaborative web browser incorporating chat, resource sharing and simple resource creation. It is based on the dynamics of cities, following from the work of Jane Jacobs. You could think of it as a cross between a MOO, a Wiki, a lea...more

Created: Tuesday July 13th 2004

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Bodington.org :: Home
http://bodington.org/index.php
  • A neat and popular virtual learning environment. Open source.

Created: Thursday December 29th 2005

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bFree - getting out of Blackboard alive
http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/
  • At last, someone has done what I've been trying to get done for years now - written a tools to liberate data from Blackboard and turn it into something useful. Free, downloadable, runs on any system.

Created: Sunday June 3rd 2007

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Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
http://cnx.rice.edu/
  • A site for sharing courses and content

Created: Sunday November 27th 2005

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sloodle - Virtual Environment Learning System
http://sloodle.com/
  • Very cool idea- a project to amalgamate Moodle and Second Life, with 3D visualisations of Moodle objects, and Moodle-isations of Second Life chat logs etc.

Created: Saturday January 6th 2007

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Topics in this topic group
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  weight: 10 Journals
  weight: 9 Complexity and education
  weight: 9 Learning Technology
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  weight: 12 Social software
  weight: 9 M Generation
  weight: 11 Theories
  weight: 9 Blogs etc
  weight: 7 Knowledge management
  weight: 10 Standards and interoperability
  weight: 9 Web conferencing
  weight: 10 Papers etc
  weight: 9 Books
  weight: 8 CMC etc
  weight: 9 Software
  weight: 7 Conferences etc
  weight: 8 Adaptive systems
  weight: 7 Self-directed learning
  weight: 6 Organisations

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