TACCLE, not the snappiest of acronyms but a site worth looking at for information and guides relating to the use, source and creation of learning materials. The TACCLE handbook can be accessed by registering on this site . To give you an idea of the content, here is a list of all of the sections:
Section 1: Getting started Chapter 1: What is e-learning? Chapter 2: Tools that are useful for communicating and creating e-learning content Chapter 3: Weblogs Chapter 4: Wikis Chapter 5: Podcasting Chapter 6: Video sharing Chapter 7: Presentation sharing Chapter 8: Social bookmarking Chapter 9: Voice threads Chapter 10: RSS feed readers Chapter 11: Image sharing Chapter 12: Taxonomies, folksonomies and metadata Section 2: The pedagogy of e-learning Chapter 13: Different sorts of e-learning Chapter 14: The role of the teacher in e-learning Chapter 15: The target group Chapter 16: Assessment Chapter 17: Trends & directions in e-learning pedagogy: social software and web 2.0 Section 3: Learning environments Chapter 18: Learning Management Systems Chapter 19: Personal Learning Environments Section 4: Creating Digital Learning Objects Chapter 20: Learning objects Chapter 21: Designing Learning Objects Chapter 22: Creating text-based content Chapter 23: Creating cartoons and comics Chapter 24: Publishing digital learning objects Chapter 25: Authoring software Chapter 26: Copyright and Open Educational Resources Section 5: Networks and communities Chapter 27: Networked Space Chapter 28: Communities of sharingAlthough the content is aimed at classroom teachers the information is useful for anyone working in the education sector and using a VLE in some form or another.
Do you know whether there is any academic research into the effects of introducing VLEs into Secondary Schools?
Thank you
Hello Nancy,
I found this report on slideshare which may be of interest to you:
http://www.slideshare.net/maximise/vles-bill-tagg-report
Also, on a similar vein this one:
http://www.slideshare.net/naaceconferences/naace-strategic-conference-2009-bill-tagg-bursary-ray-tolley
With regards to VLEs impact on teaching and learning in Secondary Schools, I don’t know of any at the moment. I’d be interested to know if you discover more research in this area.
Thanks for the comment,
BW,
Ashley