Keynote presentation to introduce some challenges for designing 21st Century e-learning tools.

1. VLEs: What Next?
Designing 21st Century
Learning Activities
Moodle Wonderland 2009
James Ballard

2. Overview
• Where are we now?
• What is 21st Century Learning?
• Enhancing the model for e-Learning?
• VLEs: What Next?

3. Where are we now?
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4. Where are we now?
Harnessing Technology
The next phase:
achieving a step-
change in how
technology is used

5. What is 21st Century Learning?
Harnessing Technology

6. What is 21st Century Learning?
‘It is a world in which knowing what and how to learn the
next thing is as important as what has already been
learnt.’
Jackson and Ward, 2004

7. Personalised Learning
Professional Social
National Personal
Institutional

8. Personalised Learning
Social
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9. Personalised Learning
Professional Social
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10. Personalised Learning
Professional Social
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11. Personalised Learning
Professional Social
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12. Personalised Learning
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Social
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Institutional

13. Personalised Learning
Harnessing Technology
Building the e-confident system

14. Personalised e-Learning
ULCC Framework for Personalised e-Learning
Professional National
Assessment
Portfolio VLE Institutional
PLP
Portal
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15. The Future is Interoperable

16. VLEs: What Next?
Less of the same!
‘In simple terms, personalised learning is the route to
raise quality and equity in our education system.’
David Milliband, 2005