PLE and VLE
After the
first quarter at AUA from time to time I visit my previous courses on Moodle
both to review some materials and also to
reassure myself that I still have an access there. Also, I have always wondered
whether or not it would be possible to go there after the graduation and also I
was curious about the amount of price AUA has invested on it. Truly speaking I
had decided to ask my instructor one day but I didn’t dare to. Fortunately the technology
class on Open Source Softwares and Open
Educational Resources made everything
clear for me. So I found out that “Moodle is an Open Source Course Management Software designed to support and enable
instructors to create online courses. It is available for free on the Web and that anyone can download and install it”.
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Moodle is really a great educational
support as it can be used to teach online or hybrid classes. The answer of my
second question whether it
would be possible to go there after the graduation came with the class on VLE/LMSs
and PLE. Listening to the explanation given by Stephen
Downs
I found out that Moodle is a VLE/LMS and
that if you have no account this means you can’t have any access. And as
compared to PLE to which you can trust your
data and where you have a direct access VLE
becomes less trustworthy for Stephen Downs.
However, VLEs or LMSs as for me could surely
be valuable in the Armenian educational
environment.Instructors could use it for multiple purposes. They simply have to
download and install it for free, spend some time on exploring it like our
class did in Sandbox for TE 307"
and you will give your students an opportunity to have
online discussions or use wikis and blog tools,they will be provided with
quizzes, self-tests. These and many other advantages of the VLE are worth
taking it for granted being sure that it will meet our teaching purposes.
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