Come and talk to Blackboard … the listening VLE

Last week I spent two enjoyable days at Durham University for the 10th Annual Durham Users Conference.  The strap line for this year’s conference was Anti Social?  I went along to the meeting partly because here at Dundee we upgraded to Blackboard (Bb) v9 in the summer and I was hoping to meet and hear [...]

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Becoming a student again

Today I became a student again as I started my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.  The course is run by my institution, the University of Dundee, and there are about 30 of us enrolled in this cohort.  We kicked off today with a one day workshop, and whilst we predominantly study by distance [...]

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The VLE/PLE debate and medical education

A couple of weeks ago there was another round in the VLE/PLE debate. Steve Wheeler kicked things of with his two fingered salute to the VLE, where he concludes that it’s inevitable that the personal web will win a straight fight with the VLE.  On a comment Steve has posted in response to a piece [...]

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