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VLE/MLE
A Vision of Learning Environments for C21 Students
‘The terrifying thing about this technology is what it
tells us about the rate at which children learn.”
Jenny Noel-Storr
Redhill Primary School, Shropshire
Hayley Matthews
Vision Statement
Developing a Virtual Learning Environment / Managed Learning Environment in
order to create a Vertical Learning Environment
Associates
that facilitates a new way of teaching and
lifelong-learning for all.
Lancaster University
Blackpool & the Fylde College
Community Members
Special Schools
SEN
Blackpool Sixth Form College
Secondary Schools
Primary/Jnr Schools
Nursery
Pupil Referral Units
‘Enhancing the quality of teaching and
learning is the key driver, identified by
almost every institution for MLE
development.’
JISC MLE Study Report 2003
VLE: Virtual Learning Environment
…where it’s
CMC – Computer Mediated Communication
CAA – Computer Aided Assessment
CAL – Computer Aided Learning
Gigabyte Infrastructure to Gb Desktops = Real Time Technologies
E-Learning tools...
Email, websites, chat, forums, video, audio, IPTV, video-conferencing, assessment engines,
projectors, interactive whiteboards, software, modelling, simulation, multimedia, powerpoint,
on-line bulletin boards, discussion, world-wide resources
MLE: Managed Learning Environment
…where it’s all
Seamless Integration with reporting & data collation tools - MIS
with on-line assessment engines
with the VLE
with BBC – One Stop Shop
with external agencies – NWLG, Student Loans
MLE-Adminstration tools...
Course registration, personal learning profile, student loans, council tax & housing benefits,
electoral registration, enrolment, accreditation, student union facilities, pastoral support, local
information, housing, non-curricular support structures…
teaching & learning citizenship...
From a Student’s Perspective…
The VLE/MLE is a Learner-centred approach to education removing
[perceived] barriers to learning:
• Access
• Pace / Flexibility
• Shared environment
• Peer to peer collaboration
From a Student’s Perspective…
The VLE/MLE is a Learner-centred approach to education removing
[perceived] barriers to learning:
• World-wide / Multi-institutional Resource Database
• Greater opportunities for those with physical, cultural,
medical, educational, social or other perceived barriers to
learning
• Decreased dependence upon Minimum Requirements for enrolment
From a Student’s Perspective…
‘The Cast of Players in a student’s learning experiences has increased
dramatically. Convergent technologies now allow experts, peers and
collaborators to join the student’s world, enriching learning experiences.’
Bernard Holkner Monash University, Melbourne
Physical Environment
‘Cast of Players’
Hardware
Software
It is not about automating the current educational content but about
presenting it in a new and effective way:
Maths Can be Interesting!
Create Your Own Atom
These tools and their
skill sets are crosscurricular, crossinstitutional and
empowering...
…auditory, kinaesthetic, visual
…the limits of my world
are the limits of my imagination…
5 year old Katie who is going to be an astronaut
8 year old Jordan who is the ‘next Stephen Spielberg’
12 year old Tom who wants to be ‘the richest man in
the world’
15 year old Jane who wants to be a beauty therapist
47 year old Janice who has decided that it is time to study for a degree but she has two teenage
children and a part-time job
Getting learners to adopt new approaches and integrate them into their learning experience requires
that staff first do the same.
This involves a cultural change…
…changing a culture…
The way learners learn:
Motivation
Inspiration
Self Pacing
Responsibility
Student
The way teachers teach:
Facilitator
Guide
Empowering
Encouraging
Relationship
Teacher Interaction
a new way of learning…
…learning as continuous research rather than a body of facts…
without limitations…
…changing a culture…
Curriculum
Staffing
Learning to Learn
Cross-sector interoperability:
Widening participation to HE
14-19s
a new way of learning…
…awarding bodies, learner organisations, employers…
Lancaster Univeristy
Pre-School
Vision to Reality….
The vision must be followed by the venture.
It is not enough to stare up the steps.
We must step up the stairs.
Carl Jung
• Stage One: Establish VLE/MLE as a quality product/service:
success is proportional
1. Source
2. Resource
3. Champions
Vision to Reality….
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Learner Tracking and Monitoring
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‘Specialist’ Delivery Teams
1. Simulation
•
Including / training further staff
2. Investigation
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Ensuring Learner Support
3. Experimentation
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Teaching becoming less hungry of human
resource
Stage Two:
Replacing the paper base
...sharing good practice, resources and encouraging one another...
Vision to Reality….
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Stage Three: All curricula subscribing to common areas
1. Maximise resources
2. Flexibility
3. Integrity of Information
4. Innovation
Vision to Reality….
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Stage Four:
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Evaluation and continuing development
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Sustainability of learning resources
…the ‘Top-Down’ Approach?
If any of these basic elements – identity of interest, clarity of vision,
honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, are lacking, all pleas for
solidarity, cohesion, and all other efforts to achieve them, will be
barren of results.
…the ‘Cascade’ Approach…
Cascade - A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
1.
A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
2.
Electronics. A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for
the next.
3.
A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on
the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect.
…how?
Leadership Strategy:
• Appreciation of current culture
• Building Relationships
• Creating a Desire for Change
• Envision them! (Energise)
• Knowledge and Empowerment
• Contagious Enthusiasm
• Supported Action
• Coherent Response
• Positive Results – CHANGE!
‘Technology is driving the future. The steering is up to us.’
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Our Vision is an inclusive C21 Learning Environment