The Monash Virtual Learning Environment

Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Jeremy Du VéVDIT eLearning Conference 25 June 2010

Our Initial Starting Point: Learning Management Systems

The Process

Dec 2009-April 2010

Wider starting points

Previous migrations, but more importantly…

What kind of learning?

42% of first year students aren’t sure that at least one of their teachers knows them by name

31% of students believe that they are learning about research undertaken in their university

44% of students under the age of 25 find lectures helpful

98% utilise learning technologiesThe First Year Experience Survey 2009

What kind of ‘systems’?

Student ‘images’ of curriculum

Can we engage in curriculum by design?

Staff views of the LMS

Stress factor ∞

But staff and students were deeply interested in ‘learning elearning’, and wanted to contextualise the LMS

Curriculum Reform and

Renewal

Educational Development Framework

The Monash Virtual

Learning Environment

The Monash Passport

The Monash Virtual Learning Environmentpowered by

Monash VRE

Mahara

Digital Ecosystem

VLE:• Has individual components, but they derive their

power via connection – the project team, staff and students, the

software• A VLE is as much a cultural phenomenon as a

collection of technologies• Allows us to think more about cloud computing• It has a history: not all elements appear

simultaneously

Thank youhttp://sites.google.com/site/monashvle/