The VMLE view

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The VMLE view

• The MLE is the University .
• . The University is the MLE
• Weve had an MLE for 100s years
• . Its just that its not very well managed

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The Portal must be student-centred

• Theyre the customers after all .

But Ive got a problem with the .

• Suits
• Cardigans
• Anoraks

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The Suits

• Cant give me the administrivia I need
• Life is about lists
• Of students
• Of courses
• Of students on those courses
• Of staff teaching those courses
• Of marks
• It cant be that hard to generate an accurate
  list of students?
• The Academic Registry seems to be geared up for
  examining but not teaching

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The Cardigans

• Sure, very client-centred and touchy-feely but .
• . bonkers about quality assured information .
• . to the point that they omit good sources of
  information because they havent got enough staff
  to vet the whole Web

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The Anoraks

• Have you seen this?

• I mean, whats that got to do with learning
  teaching?

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Us Learning Technologists just want to get on and
use Blackhole

• Its really user friendly
• Uploading Word docs is easy
• It doesnt matter that
• It doesnt run over secure protocols
• It doesnt integrate with campus-wide
  authentication scheme
• It doesnt integrate with the student record
  system
• You can search the rest of the Web but not the
  Blackhole-hosted content
• The point is its really user friendly

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This presentation was sponsored by

• The John Slater School of Diplomacy