Whilst surveying references to Auricle on the web I came across a useful comment about The Weblog as a Model for a New Type of VLE? on Charlie Lowe's blog site. It would have been nice to have his comments posted directly into Auricle but because Charlie is experienced in the use of e-learning tools and environments including Blackboard, PostNuke, and Drupal I'm reproducing his comments in this article verbatim. If you want to know more then click Charlie is a teacher at Florida State University and a pioneer in the use of weblogs for educational purposes. See the collaborative blog Kairos News.
Charlie's Cyberdash site states:
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“Scott Leslie of EdTechPost emailed me about Derek Morrison of Auricle who is looking at the weblog as the model for a new type of virtual learning environment. Morrison states that he's 'not going to put them forward (yet) as full-blown Learning Management Systems.'
Why not? Many of the full blown content management/weblog systems--such as Drupal--mainly only need some teacherly administrative tools to be comparably “full-blown” from a teacher's perspective. Add in a testing and grading module, and a good CMS can generally serve the same purposes as Blackboard and Web CT. In my experience, however, Derek is right about the scaling. Implementing and managing 1000 Drupal sites might be a little difficult, although Adrian's installation system will go a long ways toward building the necessary functionality into Drupal for setting up multiple sites simultaneously. ” (end quote)
I don't know what “Adrian's installation system” is but I'll try and find out.
