Guest Post by Peter Kogan whose research shows that the use of Moodle is popular with Informatics students & staff: students enjoy its use for sharing resources & broadening discussion and they appreciate it when staff go the extra mile. His research highlights some areas for improvement.

The thing about technology is that we soon get used to it and quickly take for granted the benefits we receive from it. This applies to just about everything: from our smart phones to the virtual learning environment (VLE) we use at City. It is not surprising that today’s students are at ease with VLEs. They are the digital generation: brought up in a wireless landscape that refers more to wi-fi than to Desert Island Discs.

I attempted to find out what makes City’s VLE and its users tick*. I looked at a lot of data, and I asked a lot of people a lot of questions in order to ascertain if users’ perceptions of Moodle in the School of Informatics (SoI) matched users’ actions. I examined the strategic aims of our VLE and tried to gauge whether these were being achieved, and what impact they were having.

Research Findings

The results of my research underlined the importance of Moodle to both learning and the student experience in SoI. More >

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