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Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and e-moderation

                                     
                                        

 

What is a Virtual Learning Environment? 

1. Does a virtual learning environment refer to any educational web site? No. However, as many fashionable words, some authors use it in a very broad way, including for instance Web sites that simple  include static web pages.
2. Is a virtual learning environment restricted to systems including 3D / virtual reality technology?  No.  Some environments include less sophisticated interfaces namely text-base ones. 
3. Is a virtual learning environment synonymous to a virtual campus? No.  A virtual campus provides University courses, while the name " Virtual learning environment" does not restrict the scope to any age or level.

 A virtual learning environment can be identified by the following features:

•  A virtual learning environment is a designed information space.
•  A virtual learning environment is a social space educational interactions occur in the environment, turning spaces into places.
•  The virtual space is explicitly represented: the representation of this information/social space can very from text to 3D immersive world.
• Students are not only active, but also actors: They co-construct the virtual space. 
• Virtual learning environments are not restricted to distance education.
• Virtual learning environment integrate heterogeneous technologies and  multiple  pedagogical approaches.
• Most virtual environments overlap with physical environments. 

 Tips for the online conference moderator:

    According to Nicky Hockly these are the tips that an online conference moderator has to do:
     1. Welcome the audience.
     2. Set the agenda for the event.
     3. Outline any protocols (e.g. don’t draw on the PowerPoint slides unless invited to do so!).
     4. Introduce the speaker.
     5. Give permissions to speakers and participants to use certain tools such as the shared  whiteboard, or the microphone.
     6. Keep track of any questions that may appear in the chat window during the talk.
     7. Moderate a question-and-answer session when the speaker has finished his or her presentation.
     8. Sum up, thank the speaker and audience, and close the session.


References:

Dillenbourg P., Schneider D., and Synteta P., (2002). Virtual Learning  Environments.
Retrieved from:

https://www.inf.ufes.br/~cvnascimento/artigos/Dillernbourg-Pierre-2002a.pdf

Nicky Hockly  (Nov 25, 2009) Tips for the online conference Moderator. 
Retrieved from:

http://www.emoderationskills.com/tips-for-the-online-conference-moderator/

  

Social Networks, Community of Practice, and Personal Learning Networks

 
                    

                                                            Social Networking

      Social Networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connection through individuals, often though social media sites such as: Facebook, Twitter, LinKedIn, Google+

        Based on the six degrees of separation which is the theory that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries, social networking establishes interconnected online communities (sometimes known as social graphs) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met otherwise.

        Depending of the social media platform such as. Forums, micro blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation and wikis, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. Some services require members to have a preexisting connection to contact other members.

        While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Web to facilitate such connections has led to an exponential and ongoing

expansion of that phenomenon. In addition to social media platforms, the capacity for social interaction and collaboration is increasingly built into business applications.

                                                              Collaboration

          In the enterprise, the ability to collaborate and communicate is increasingly becoming essential to business applications. Enterprise collaboration may encompass the use of collaboration platform, enterprise social networking tools, a corporate intranet and the public internet.

          For example Cloud Collaboration allows employees to work together on documents on their data type that are store off-premises and outside of the company firewall. Employees  used a
cloud-based platform to share, edit and work together on projects. Cloud collaboration enables two or more people to work on a project at once.

References:
Whatls.com. Posted by: Margaret Rose (July, 2017)
Retrieved from:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking

The Top Social Networking Sites  People Are Using. Elise Moreau (July 5, 2017) Retrieved from:

https://www.lifewire.com/top-social-networking-sites-people-are-using-3486554

The Most Interesting Social Networks. Socialbakers blog. (August 29, 2012) Retrieved from:

https://www.socialbakers.com/blog/808-article-the-20-most-interesting-social-networks

                                      

                                      


" In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology  access. print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements  for even basic participation in an information-based, technology- depended economy and society"
Adam J. Banks.