Virtual Learning Environment
Virtual Learning Environment
Introduction
VLE can be defined as a platform that is used for learning and interaction between students and teachers by a developed online computer-web technology. There are some factors that instigated the development of VLE and it dates back as far as the internet development itself.
VLE – Past, Present and Future
Due to the need of improvement in educational systems and research, online learning has developed just as the internet and the World Wide Web has developed.
VLE is an online learning environment that provides a range of interaction and communication, using a simple user’s interface.
The advent of online (electronic) learning through “www” started in 1969 by the US Advent Research Project Agency (ARPA), which created a network, involving a distributed communication system capable of preventing a nuclear attack. Subsequently, not before long, the inventers realized that the network can be used for a range of other academic purposes, such as communication through email, material/file enhancing through (FTP), File Transfer Portfolio. The utility of this network allowed private developers to join in the use of the online learning tool. This superseded the initial network developed by ARPA, (tailored and run by US universities). The success rates encourage the widespread use across Europe and US universities.
The disadvantage at that time was that usage was only limited to users who could use the UNIX-based computer terminals of that time.
In the early 1980s, new type of computers, PC, which are less difficult to use and users friendly, were developed in conjunction with Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh OS; with the application of a mouse. This allowed for a significant increase in the use of computers, and online-learning.
Electronic (Online) learning really began with the invention of the World Wide Web (www), by Tim Berners-Lee between 1989 and 1993.
According to Paul Catheral, (2005), “Educational and research
Introduction
VLE can be defined as a platform that is used for learning and interaction between students and teachers by a developed online computer-web technology. There are some factors that instigated the development of VLE and it dates back as far as the internet development itself.
VLE – Past, Present and Future
Due to the need of improvement in educational systems and research, online learning has developed just as the internet and the World Wide Web has developed.
VLE is an online learning environment that provides a range of interaction and communication, using a simple user’s interface.
The advent of online (electronic) learning through “www” started in 1969 by the US Advent Research Project Agency (ARPA), which created a network, involving a distributed communication system capable of preventing a nuclear attack. Subsequently, not before long, the inventers realized that the network can be used for a range of other academic purposes, such as communication through email, material/file enhancing through (FTP), File Transfer Portfolio. The utility of this network allowed private developers to join in the use of the online learning tool. This superseded the initial network developed by ARPA, (tailored and run by US universities). The success rates encourage the widespread use across Europe and US universities.
The disadvantage at that time was that usage was only limited to users who could use the UNIX-based computer terminals of that time.
In the early 1980s, new type of computers, PC, which are less difficult to use and users friendly, were developed in conjunction with Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh OS; with the application of a mouse. This allowed for a significant increase in the use of computers, and online-learning.
Electronic (Online) learning really began with the invention of the World Wide Web (www), by Tim Berners-Lee between 1989 and 1993.
According to Paul Catheral, (2005), “Educational and research