From LMS to VLE or from supermarket to airports: Classifying e-learning platforms using metaphors
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
LAMS Foundation and LAMS International
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Education / Fogarty Learning Centre
RAS ID
10326
Abstract
This paper presents a rational model developed to make sense of various elearning platforms currently in use in Australian universities. The conceptualisation and organisation of the elearning platforms is underpinned by an educational psychology framework of social construction of meaning, data visualisation and story telling for meaning making. The model explains how various elearning platforms can be integrated to represent a three-dimensional, hierarchical construct that has the potential to aid understandings about the utility of information systems (IS) for learning and teaching. The model shows that LAMS, which has gained increasing popularity in Europe (Laurillard & Masterman, 2010), is usefully depicted as a ‘middle ground’ system, successfully bridging conventional LMSs and more advanced IS, referred here as (MU)VLEs (Multi-User Virtual Learning Environments). The model has important implications on how university lecturers, classroom teachers and students come to engage with an increasingly complex elearning environment.
Access Rights
Free_to_read
Comments
Dobozy, E. , & Reynolds, P. (2010). From LMS to VLE or from supermarket to airports: Classifying e-learning platforms using metaphors. Proceedings of International LAMS & Learning Design Conference . (pp. 10p.). Sydney, NSW. LAMS Foundation and LAMS International. Available here