Since 2021, I have been providing an annual review of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) market in UK higher education, aiming to highlight trends, notable developments, and evolving market shares.
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The vast majority of engagement and interaction with online learning experiences is asynchronous. Students engage in activities, tasks and interact not simply at a set time for a set duration, but across time when they want to or are able to do so.
Whilst there are myriad types of activities, interaction, content etc that can form part of asynchronous online learning - over the years a core menu of common activity types and associated online technologies has been established.
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Although many other things get much more attention - one of the notable changes in higher education in respect to edtech in recent years is the greater usage of video conferencing technology. Many HEIs had this technology in their edtech suites before the pandemic, but usage for learning and teaching was minimal and largely for online distance learning programmes with a synchronous element.
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During a period in which discussion of how AI is set to alter education and challenge long-standing orthodoxies, it feels somewhat antiquated to be talking about virtual learning environments (VLEs). However, these unfashionable digital technologies continue to be the mainstay of practically every UK university's digital campus.
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Whether you love them or hate them, or are indifferent to them - Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) or Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been a mainstay of educational technology in higher education for many years now.
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The founders myth is a relatively prevalent idea, what lays behind it is the idea that there’s some herculean individual who through their own sheer genius has achieved feats with a startup that aren’t possible for us mere mortals. These kinds of stories are often perpetuated by the media because they probably appeal to all of us on some level or another.
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It was Benjamin Franklin that said
“an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
When it comes to a university education perhaps it’s this sentiment that’s driving what’s predicted to be a 10% growth in the number of university students in the UK over the next 4 years.
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