The point you have made about the engagement and involvement of students is IMHO key here. We at Oaklands are using those students to teach the staff in utilizing the technology (whatever it is not just the VLE) with great effect. Where we have (as we have dubbed them) eMentors there is evidence that 75% of the classes increased their success and a 6% overall improvement in success was recorded where they were present. In addition feedback from staff and students indicates that  93% of those surveyed thought that the usefulness of eMentors was Good, Very Good or Excellent. The main usage of eMentors was with Computer Laptops usage = 27% Smartboards = 10% and Oaklearn (the VLE) = 8%

 

 

The question being asked is  in some ways, a reasonable one. However the number of students actively using any system is dependent on the quality of the material loaded for their use, whether the material is didactic or exploratory in nature, whether there is an adequate area where working documents can be loaded and many other variables.

However the key to usage is undoubtedly the clear adoption by an organisation of a policy of engagement with students via the system and the adequate training of staff to optimise the pedagogical advantages of such systems. In addition there are key institutional issues about the suitability of the assessment procedures used within a MLE environment.

At 10:32 01/05/2008, you wrote:

Would it worth asking what % of students are actively using the VLE?? Difficult to answer I know but it should give an indication of how much the VLE is really embedded into the institution.
 
When I tried asking this question a year ago the "best" result was 30% for 2 colleges. I guess e-learning enthusiasts would aim for 75% + ?

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For information we have just finished our annual unofficial FE VLE survey on the ILT Champions List.

If you want to contribute to the ongoing use of the wiki please feel free to check your college or FE listing, and make amends where necessary.

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here are the results:

Moodle 93 including 4 using moodle in combination with Sharepoint (and in one instance Moodle, Sharepoint and Pebblepad)

Blackboard 43 including 2 using in combination with Sharepoint, and with the caveat that one is planning to move to moodle

Sharepoint 4, as a stand alone, plus those using Sharepoint as part of Microsoft learning gateway 2

IT Campus 3

In-house 3

WebCT 3

Fronter 2

Learnwise 2

Tecknical now Serco 1

North Tyneside VLE 1

weblearn 1

Total 156 entries

Moodle 59% Blackboard 28%

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