Blended Learning in the East Riding

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Blended Learning in the East Riding

• Whats possible?

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Moodle
Moodle is a content management system (Virtual
Learning Environment VLE) that complements
lessons taught in a virtual classroom by
providing anytime, anywhere access to resources,
quizzes, homework, videos, discussion boards and
chat rooms. Tutor can also collect, mark and
return work to students if appropriate.
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LearnLinc
LearnLinc is a virtual classroom product that
enables learners to take part in real-time
lessons from any computer with internet access,
providing the convenience of access from any
location with many of the features of a
face-to-face lesson. This software is currently
used in the DLC lessons.
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Breeze
Breeze is an online meeting room and training
system, provided by Macromedia, that enables
learners to take part in real-time meetings from
any computer with internet access, combining
video, audio and collaborative tools in an
exciting way. This software is quite new and may
be more suitable than LearnLinc for online
training.
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Video Conferencing
Video conferencing software enables one-to-one
training where webcams are used to enable the
trainer and learner to see and talk to each other
in real time as well as share and work on the
same files and documents (application sharing).
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Screen Capture Software
Screen capture software can be used to record an
activity on a tutors computer screen for
replaying back by an online learner in their own
time.
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Net Meeting
Software which allows one-to-one online text
messaging and application sharing.
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Skype
Skype is free software which allows you to talk
to others from computer to computer instead of
using a telephone. Users can make conference
calls - to computers and/or telephones - and also
write text messages while online.
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Movies
Short video clips to demonstrate activities,
allow learners to view teaching and learning
situations or observe a talking head can be
made by tutors and posted online for learners to
view or download.
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Live Streamed Video
Cameras can be set up in different
environments to provide streamed videos with
webcam quality images and sound through the
internet . Archives of these resources can be
built up and made available to teachers in an
online library.