This document provides an overview of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and its uses at the London School of Economics. The VLE, WebCT, is used across most departments and contains course materials like readings, multimedia content, and communication tools. Staff and students have responded positively to features that enhance learning and engagement like discussion boards. WebCT allows various types of content, communication, and assessment to be delivered online to create a better learning environment.

1. VLE Overview

4. Staff and Student responses to WebCT “ Brilliant! keep up the good work. Add more!” “ WebCT is a very good idea and should be extended to other courses.” “ Excellent resources, very impressive. It has helped learning immensely” Ideas and questions are floated on the discussion board prior to seminars so students have the chance to begin discussing them before coming to the class. This offers a new way of addressing student engagement in the course, of building interest. Staff responses If a lecturer answers a question in a discussion area, then it is available to everyone….it has taken pressure off my (student) office hours WebCT has not changed what I do radically but it’s created a far better learning environment for students. Student responses