Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case

Henry Hermans; Steven Verjans

Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case

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The Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL) has adopted the concept of the personal learning and working environment (PLWE) as the future delivery platform of its educational services to students. This concept means that students should be able to shape their own personal virtual (learning) environment, based on individual tool and technology preferences . To support this concept the OUNL faces the challenge of setting up an architecture and investing in the development of a set of educational services that can be integrated not only in the institutional learning environment, but that can also be merged with personal environments. In this presentation we describe the first steps of a distance teaching university in its move towards this PLWE concept. This means reconsidering the role and position of the current, more traditional VLE, and developing new educational services that aim at getting students more committed and involved, inspired by the success of current web2.0 technology.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2 Apr 2009

Keywords

virtual learning environment
personal learning environment
VLE
PLE
e-learning
distance learning
implementation
planning
case description
OUNL

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Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case

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