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LISTSERV Web Interface 16.52024-01-04T13:57:57ZTraxler, John M. (Prof)2024-01-04T13:57:33+00:002024-01-04T13:57:33+00:00Re: procuring a VLE / language, value & groupthinkhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=VLE;b16c2893.2401Many thanks Richard<br><br>Yes I will<br><br>Some of this starting in pursuing possibilities to ‘decolonise learning technology’ (and then wider aspects of EDI) and wondering how we worked upstream from us, the people who use this stuff, to those that bought it and installed and to those that designed and developed and sold [...]Richard Walker2024-01-04T12:06:30+00:002024-01-04T12:06:30+00:00Re: procuring a VLE / language, value & groupthinkhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=VLE;147d7e1.2401Hi John,<br><br>interesting post. I think you might like to share this on the Heads of<br>E-Learning Forum site, to garner thoughts on procurement processes across<br>the sector. Whilst what you describe might be true in some institutions, I<br>would question whether it is fair to generalise.<br>At York we have co-opted teaching staff and students as part of the wider<br>project implementation group for procurements over the years - and have<br>invited vendors to present to academic audiences on how their solution can<br>support specific teaching scenarios.<br>In our most recent VLE review, we conducted extensive UX testing with [...]Traxler, John M. (Prof)2024-01-04T11:51:59+00:002024-01-04T11:51:59+00:00Re: procuring a VLE / language, value & groupthinkhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=VLE;43e2351d.2401Thanks.<br><br>Good points.<br><br>I had thought about interoperability. Presumably it is a further conservative constraint. Anything new has to fit into everything else that already installed. And interoperability is objective and easy to assess compared to issues of pedagogy or inclusion<br><br>In some senses my concern was the suspicion that our IT people find it easier to have a conversation about interoperability with IT vendors than they do to have a conversation about implementing social constructivism with lecturers (that maybe a rather abstract and extreme example) [...]