New challenge over school science

50 ideas for online learning

Following on from a recent post about the use of social software in place of traditional VLEs, this document describes lots of ways that free software can be used to support e-learning.

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Is social software better for learning than VLEs?

A thought provoking article from Christian Dalsgaard argues that social software provides a better learning platform than traditional VLEs.

Although I think that there are some flaws in his argument (such as students'a abilities to use web services), I appreciate the richness that the raw Internet provides to learners - a richness that no VLE can hope to match.

How to set-up an educational blog

Good advice from TES about setting up your own blog.