Virtual Learning Environments

I know its a clever title. When first looking at the question of my first online learning experience I would have said that this was my first truly online course. Like many of the rest of you though, I have had various other mixed online and onsite courses. So looking at the definitions provided by [… Read More]

I was trying to remember what my actual first online class had been, and after enough digging into the depths of my memory I somehow came up with a class I took in my first few years of undergrad at a community college in Orange County, California. It was a class that was available during [… Read More]

Hey all, Like many of you are saying in your posts about your first experiences with online classes, I am no different in believing that there are positives and negatives to this method of learning and teaching. I completed my undergraduate degree just over a year ago now, which seems like forever ago while in [… Read More]

During my undergrad at University of Wisconsin – Madison computers were pretty limited even when I graduated in 1991 – I laughed when I opened the History of VLE and it starts with 1990…. I was an art and art history double major and I remember taking one of the first animation classes – limited [… Read More]

Undergrad was pretty typical for me. I woke up late everyday, rushed out of the house with a cup of coffee which I tried (usually unsuccessfully) to balance on my handlebars of my bicycle. I was generally late to class and often covered in coffee stains and/or mud if it rained. I either talked too [… Read More]

Hey class, The post below, titled “Going to Class at 2 a.m.” pretty much sums up my first online experience as well. Taking my first online class, with 15 other credits on my schedule, during my second semester of my undergrad was a bit much. 18 credits worth of intense classes was really difficult. Before [… Read More]

Hey All, My first online learning experience was in my junior year of undergrad. In the beginning of my undergraduate career I started pursuing a minor in communications. I ended up ditching the minor and doing a double major instead and so I took two classes online during the summer so that I would graduate [… Read More]

Before enrolling in this online media studies program, I had a very limited exposure to virtual learning environments. My first semester at The New School was spent studying sociology at the School for Social Research and one of my classes had a small online component, which I found to be quite challenging. Our professor created [… Read More]

My first online learning experience was in 1994 or 1995 for a general undergrad class – you know, one of those classes that is supposed to make you a well-rounded person. The class ended up being my most favorite and most memorable undergrad class. The class was “Biology of Birds” at Stockton College in New [… Read More]

For some reason, it wouldn’t let me comment on the previous post, so I am just going to post my own. For as long as I can remember, there was a computer in my classroom. However, this is not e-learning, nor was it a virtual learning environment. Sure, I can type faster than my parents, [… Read More]