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Virtually There | Learning Platforms - Launched in Castleford!

2007-05-23

First things first.... The Department for Education and Skills have made it clear that every child in the UK must have access to a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) by the close of 2008. With 24,000 schools in England and Wales (and one more brand new school opening every 4 days

First things first.... The Department for Education and Skills have made it clear that every child in the UK must have access to a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) by the close of 2008. With 24,000 schools in England and Wales (and one more brand new school opening every 4 days(ish))....this is a big challenge.......but as Professor Stephen Heppell says .... "It is a nice one"..... What is a VLE? Why have one? How does it work? What does it cost? What are the alternatives? What is the impact on time and workload? How does it enhance or improve learning delivery? What do we have to do to make it work? What does it do? Why does it do it? How does it fit with curriculum delivery? Is it curriculum delivery? .... the questions go on, and on and on.... Up until now what has largely been missing was clear help in answering the questions and finding ways to make sense of the mass of information available from creators of commercial products, government agencies, ICT professionals and plenty of others. We have never been short of information, but we have never really started to filter it too much either. The thing is.....general research currently establishes that decision makers need to …

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