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Interesting to see different perspectives in different institutions. The 'holy grail' of MLE is certainly not here yet at Oaklands College BUT the building blocks to make it a reality are gradually being put in place. It is unrealistic to expect overnight changes in something as big as MLE.
From my perspective we have some of those essential pieces in place and I would argue this forms the essential foundations:
A single coherent secure data network
(Secure) Access from outside the network for both staff and students
A single common operating system (Windows 200 Active Directory)
VLE and MIS and other systems working 'through' Active Directory
Telephony (combined Voice and data approach) - early days
A culture change occurring where (IT) specialists see themselves as customer i.e. learner centred)
An accommodation strategy that has MLE at the centre of its ethos
A supportive strategy to develop staff in the culture changes required to make best use of the technology in the brave new world
At the beginning of this the infrastructure changes are key. If the commitment is not forthcoming to support that then everything else will fall apart in my view.
Regards
Richard
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Richard Everett
Head of ICLT (Information Communications and Learning Technology)
Oaklands College
St Albans Smallford Campus
Hatfield Road
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL4 0JA
Tel 07789 633870
Fax 01727 847 987
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From: Megan Robertson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 October 2003 09:25
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In many institutions, there is a very sharp divide between 'curriculum' and
'MIS' - even to the extent of physically separate networks - and as this is
even more embedded mentally than it is in the infrastructure it is very hard
for what would seem obvious to any kind of information professional to be
implemented!
The 'dream' is something totally integrated where each individual can sit
down anywhere in their institution (or even off site), log in and gain
access to everything that they require... be it learning materials,
registers, personal data, whatever... naturally via a robust access control
that ensures that nobody gets to look at stuff they should not see. This
kind of transparency is a long way off :-(
Even the products available - assuming you are going to buy commercially
rather than write your own systems - are not as yet designed to do this kind
of thing... and if you have just spent £loads on a new VLE, say, and then
committed a lot of time and energy to put learning materials on it, you
don't want to change even if the sort of fully integrated solution you'd
want was available!
Megan
ILT Champion, City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College
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From: Peter Trethewey
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Sent: 04/10/03 12:42
Subject: [VLES] What happened to MLE's?
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"VLEs are *mostly* everywhere, but predominantly only in pilot
phase, and often still known about only in the circles of champions,
experts and techies."
from
The ETNA report. Download a FREE copy from the website of RSC
Scotland North & East at www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/home.html.
I guess this means that an MLE is still a distant dream?
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