"E-learning was a totally new experience to me and to be honest I was a bit apprehensive as I do not see myself as very computer literate. However I found the course was very easy to follow and the format made learning a pleasure. It was great to be able to fit the course around my diary and I would recommend it to anyone."

"Andrea Embleton our 100,000th learner from Northumberland Tyne and Wear Health Trust"

"The online course has been hugely successful and in just 18 months we have trained over 2000 people which is far more than we could have reached with face-to-face training."

"Claire Seymour - Training Co-ordinator, South Tees Local Safeguarding Children Board"

"I am delighted with the Basic Awareness of Child Abuse and Refresher training material we now have access to through the Safeguarding Children e-Academy."

"Dave Herring - Head of East Riding Safeguarding Children Board"

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"Pauline Beall Business Manager, Stockton-on-Tees LSCB"

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"Paul Hill - Manager of Bradford Safeguarding Children Board"

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Virtual learning environments (VLE)

Submitted by abby on 7 December, 2007 - 10:08.

As its name suggest a VLE is an online environment in which learning can take place. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) defines a VLE as: safeguarding children woman learning

An electronic system, providing online interactions of various kinds, that can take place between learners and other learners, and learners and tutors, including online learning.

There is no fixed requirements for a VLE structure and they vary in scope and design. The key to their success is that they must be designed to meet the overriding goal of providing a quality learner experience.

There are a number of components which can be brought together to create a VLE. These include:

 

  • Learning Management System (LMS) –An LMS provides the ability to administer, schedule and maintain a range of learning services, both online and classroom-based. They can also help you to access management information that provides information on the costs and benefits of providing your learner service. It can track learners and can include, for example, classroom management, knowledge management, chat facilities, discussion boards and learner support networks.
  • Learning content management system (LCMS) –An LCMS can provide the ability to create, store, re-use, deliver and maintain a range of interactive learning content from a centrally managed library or repository. It can host content developed by external suppliers, provided that content complies with the technical standards specified by the LCMS.
  • Virtual classroom –A technology environment where learners and tutors ‘go online’ at the same time and connect with a remote instructor who is able to instruct, monitor and assess them in the same way as in a more traditional classroom –using audio and learning content sharing facilities.
  • ICT Infrastructure –The information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure that forms the organisation’s underlying web-based technical architecture. This will need to integrate with the LMS, LCMS and virtual classroom technology to allow the learning services to link to your organisations management information systems, such as e-mail.

If you are interested in finding out more about virtual learning environments, you can ask our resident expert, or contact us.

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