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Virtual Library Environment? VLEs in Practice

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This chapter analyses a technology which has become successfully embedded in higher education: the virtual learning environment (VLE). VLEs are ubiquitous in higher education and are used extensively. However, the chapter argues VLEs are a sustaining innovation, offering a marginal enhancement of pre-existing pedagogical practice but not comprising a disruptive innovation. The VLE has transformative potential but, in practice, it has been used within the main teaching paradigms in higher education, being educator rather than learner-centred. The VLE also accrues data on students, and the chapter analyses how the data can be used.

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Flavin, M. (2020). Virtual Library Environment? VLEs in Practice. In: Re-imagining Technology Enhanced Learning. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55785-0_3

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