Over the past year we’ve been migrating our online learning content for the early years of our undergraduate curriculum from Blackboard to WordPress. This move to using WordPress for our learning portal (VLE) was made after a series of pilots led to a bit of a snowball effect with growing numbers of our clinical teachers calling into the office and asking if they could have a WordPress site for their areas of the curriculum. Staff and students preferred WordPress because it was much more like their everyday experience with the Web, they found it quicker and more user friendly. WordPress didn’t present them with folders to click on like the old VLE, but webpages that looked like the rest of the Web and a number of students felt it better supported self-directed learning.
In parallel with the move to WordPress we’ve got another project running developing a timetabling and calendaring…
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