the monash virtual learning environment
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Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching, Monash University This presentation will outline how close collaboration between ITS, the Monash Education Centre and the Education Portfolio transformed an LMS review into a Virtual Learning Environment in which staff and student education, virtual and physical and virtual environments and existing and new software and hardware were drawn together to express Monash’s goals for research-inspired education.TRANSCRIPT
The Monash Virtual Learning Environment
Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Jeremy Du VéVDIT eLearning Conference 25 June 2010
Our Initial Starting Point: Learning Management Systems
The Process
Dec 2009-April 2010
Wider starting points
Previous migrations, but more importantly…
What kind of learning?
42% of first year students aren’t sure that at least one of their teachers knows them by name
31% of students believe that they are learning about research undertaken in their university
44% of students under the age of 25 find lectures helpful
98% utilise learning technologiesThe First Year Experience Survey 2009
What kind of ‘systems’?
Student ‘images’ of curriculum
Can we engage in curriculum by design?
Staff views of the LMS
Stress factor ∞
But staff and students were deeply interested in ‘learning elearning’, and wanted to contextualise the LMS
Curriculum Reform and
Renewal
Educational Development Framework
The Monash Virtual
Learning Environment
The Monash Passport
The Monash Virtual Learning Environmentpowered by
Monash VRE
Mahara
Digital Ecosystem
VLE:• Has individual components, but they derive their
power via connection – the project team, staff and students, the
software• A VLE is as much a cultural phenomenon as a
collection of technologies• Allows us to think more about cloud computing• It has a history: not all elements appear
simultaneously
Thank youhttp://sites.google.com/site/monashvle/