CETIS
Designing the future of VLE’s
Paul Hollins, CETIS Manager (CETIS – funded by the JISC advise Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards.) based at Bolton University records that “the last five years have seen a major uptake of VLEs by colleges and universities, as they seek to widen access to and enhance their educational provision” (http://www.e-framework.org)
He goes on to identify the prevailing metaphor used by VLE’s as that of the classroom – a place that people go to be taught and that typically VLE’s tools and technologies are proprietary. Hollins argues that the future of VLE’s must adjust to the reality of students moving between institutions and different VLE interfaces.
He offers a future alternative whereby the functionality of VLE’s is displaced from the institutional host network and instead confined within a distributed desktop application or an independently hosted web portal. In this future scenario Learners would be able to interact with the VLE using their personal systems and preferred methods of working and institutions would still be able to provide content via repositories, undertake assessment and so on.
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