The Learn for Life website has a podcast from Robin Ball, Learning Services Manager of BECTA, in which he talks about learning platforms, the framework , and pupils being unable to use Web2.0 from within schools (an e-safety issue). Amongst a discussion about pedagogy and VLEs, Robin expresses some frustration that the framework has been [...]
The results of a survey of e-portfolio and e-Personal Development Planning (PDP) practice in UK higher education has been published by the Centre for Recording Achievement on behalf of the Higher Education Academy. Things of note: Almost all claimed that PDP had now been implemented in their institution and over three-quarters of these were using some form [...]
An article on ZDNet with Stephen Lucey (Becta’s executive director of strategic technologies) is worth a read. Good advice for Vista and Office 2007. I am glad that Stephen defined a learning platform in the following way: A learning platform is a range of products, so we were looking for the ability of a supplier [...]