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My colleagues Sheila and Wilbert have developed  five conceptual models of Distributed Learning Environment (DLE) for institutions. In the briefing paper, they discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each model and provide some examples of current applications. This timely work should be really valuable in helping institutions and educators to rethink how VLE and [...]

Inspired by the VirtualDutch timeline, I wondered how easy it would be to create something similar with all JISC e-learning projects that I could get linked data for. It worked, and I learned some home truths about scalability and the web architecture in the process. As Lorna pointed out, UCL’s VirtualDutch timeline is a wonderful example [...]

On February 26th, the winners were announced for a series of code challenges that were set during the Dev8D event in London - and one of the winners was a very cool Wookie demo put together by Dan Hagon and Mark Johnson (with a bit of help from me)

Over the past year or so we’ve been doing a lot of thinking and work around what we’ve now come round to calling distributed learning environments. Essentially, ways that you can extend current VLE functionality without having to change/upgrade your VLE. Concurrently it also seems that every HE institution in the country is [...]

After a marathon code sprint Apache Wookie (Incubating) now passes all 166 W3C Widgets conformance tests, the third application to reach a 100% pass rate.