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Title: Virtual learning - Phil Thane, Personal Computer World Post by: Tanya on June 05, 2007, 09:40:06 AM Schools have been using computers since the mid-1980s, and distance learning – via radio or TV, by post, using books, disks or tapes – isn’t new either. In the Australian outback, for example, they’ve had ‘virtual schools’ via shortwave radio since the 1950s. Recently, learning systems that bring together many existing web-based technology strands, including email, chat, blogs and wikis, have started to come together and VLE (virtual learning environment) is now the abbreviation du jour in school staff meetings.
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