VLEs (virtual learning environments) provide several benefits for both tutors and students. They allow tutors to track student access and provide feedback more easily. VLEs also enable collaboration through discussion spaces where students, staff, and specialists can interact. For students, VLEs facilitate participation in courses through online discussions at convenient times. They also provide areas for students to work together on groups and debates without needing to meet in person. VLEs help save time by reducing photocopying and administration through online sharing of materials and assessments.

1. Week 6
Tutor Carlos Raúl López Reátiga
Student: Evelyn Chairez Mendoza

2. Tutors can benefit from this tools.
Tutors can benefit from the administrative tools
within a VLE. Many VLEs provide information to staff
about how often and when students have accessed
a VLE through the tracking tool. A feedback can
rapidly be distributed to the students individually,
through the VLE.

3. A VLE also offers tutors tool to encourage
collaboration and communication. For
instance a VLE can provide…
virtual space where students, staff and other
learning support specialists can discuss, interact,
share learning, ideas and materials.

4. To ensure students actively
participate in face-to-face sessions
Through online discussions it is possible to help
student engage more actively with a course and with
the learning process at a time and place that is
convenient for both tutor and student. Part-time
students often find difficulty in working in groups with
full-time students studying the same course,
especially when this requires face-to-face meetings.
VLEs provides an area to work together whitout the
necessity of physically meeting.

5. A community of learners can…
Develop an area to listen and debate key areas for
their studies at a place and time convenient. They
can greatly benefit from using asynchronous online
discussions to deepen their knowledge and create a
community of practice. They can also develop
between distance and campus-based students.

6. VLEs can help you to save time
by…
Helping you to change the focus of your time since
much time is lost through students copying
complicated diagrams and references and general
administration, these can be transferred to the VLE.
This also reduce the time for photocopying- Once
you have created your materials online, you can
easily update them with a few mouse clicks.

7. Summary
In this lesson we take a closer look to the VLEs, this makes the topic more clear. I think VLEs are
very helpful for students and teachers, the way these tool helps the students by creating a virtual
classroom where students and teachers can communicate with teach other, share information,
elaborate cooperative homework, catching up without going out of your house or having trouble
with the organization of the meeting. And not only creates a virtual spaces but also this tool helps
the student and teacher with the reading materials or assessments, this saves time from taking
photocopies, searching for a book, reproducing your own works and exercises, and sharing your
information. As I was saying in the last summary, as much as it looks like this tools will replace
traditional schools as we know them now, I don’t think that will happen because schools have the
important area to develop that is the social intelligence, we get this by interacting with people, and
even If we can do that on a virtual platform too, it doesn’t work the same. Students that work on a
VLE can help each other and create discussions, remind each other about an assessment and
answer the doubts that the others have. Once you are using a VLE, this tool changes your mind
about the organization of the time while you are studying. I actually tried so hard to get used to this
part, mostly because this kind of VLE doesn’t remind you about the assessments you have to
deliver today, so I personally was struggling with the homework by writing them and making a
schedule and a calendar, so I could remember exactly what to do and when. I feel like VLEs are
perfect for people that has no time to be a complete-time student, but at the same time you cant
waste your time was you thought you could, Is not that I thought this would be easier, but
sometimes you just don’t realize how messy your schedules are. I strongly recommend people that
is studying online, to try to organize their time and, not only is important to make the schedule but
your really have to stick to them. Online learning is a process to be followed, you can’t do the
things by your own methods, not if you are disorganized or you tend to get too confident about your
tasks.