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Introduction to the Special Issue on Distributed Learning Environments
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In this issue, however, the expression “distributed learning environments” means something entirely different. Here we mean that the learning environments are distributed.
Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching by Lisa M. Lane
"Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. Yet few faculty use these features, or even adapt their CMS very much, despite the several customization options. This is because most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web–based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web–novice faculty teach online, encouraging methods based on posting of material and engendering usage that focuses on administrative tasks. A solution to this underutilization of the CMS is to focus on pedagogy for Web–novice faculty and allow a choice of CMS."
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When faced with a different interface or online environment, novices are inclined to utilize only the aspects they understand from a non–Web context. Posting a Word document online makes sense, but not creating an HTML page, because a word–processed document is a familiar unit of presentation but a Web page is not.
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Faculty are led by the interface of a CMS not only because they do not immediately see an alternative, but because the familiar signposts (the Syllabus button) imply a single way of completing the task (upload a document).
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Virtual Learning Reports of the demise of the VLE/LMS are greatly exaggerated – elearnspace
Educational Technology Innovation and Impact - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Using "Moodle Wave" - Live demo
Scott Wilson tests Moodle with the Wookie engine. Anybody can register and try it out.
Beyond Control?
Steve Wheeler on a book chapter dealing with the LMS and students' use of social media
My place or yours? Hosting Web 2.0 Education | Virtual Canuck
"Despite the attractions of security (behind the wall solutions) and cost effectiveness (on someone elses’s yard), I conclude that there is no one best solution from the three I discuss above. Perhaps only dancing among the compleixty and simultaeously hosting all three solutions in every fromal education program creates the necessary blend of security, innovation and public presence that defines quality education in networked era."
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