>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:15:41 +0000
>From: Malcolm Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Snapshot survey on VLE funding
>
>Of course one aspect of all VLE whether free or not is that they are
>essentially about the institution doing things to students rather than
>empowering them. At a number of recent workshops with colleagues we have
>been introducing them to a number of 'free' tools such as Smartgroups,
>Quicktopic, MSN, Hot Potatoes, etc and extolling the virtues of them being
>set up and used by students in partnership with us (sometimes) so that they
>have control of the technology. How many institutional VLE facilitate such
>an approach?
Moodle does have features to facilitate this approach - the best example
being that a course can be based primarily around open discussion. Students
can also create/edit wikis, keep journals, participate in workshops - there
are quite a few tools with the teachers and students on a (roughly) equal
footing.
In lots of ways Moodle follows a similar path to WebCT, but I think this
respect is a particularly interesting difference. It very clearly tries to
allow for a "social constructivist" approach...
Dan
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