The Virtual Learning Environment Takes it Personally

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Derek Morrison: The Virtual Learning Environment Takes it Personally, Auricle December 16, 2005

Podcast interview and follow-up article of an interview with Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning at the University of Bolton and Director of CETIS about Personal Learning Environments. Worth quoting: "Oleg Liber makes a further valid point. Despite years of development, the current generation of VLEs provide tools primarily for teachers, administrators, and system lords, not students. That doesn't fit easily with our protestations of concern with the student experience and in being student centred". More...