The document discusses using WordPress to support teaching and learning beyond traditional virtual learning environments. It provides examples of medical schools and universities using WordPress blogs for teaching purposes. Student response was positive, with thousands of hits on the blogs during teaching blocks. Students engaged with cases, images, and assessments on the blogs and wanted more of this type of supplementary content. There are plans to further develop and evaluate the use of WordPress blogs to deliver educational content in a more open and accessible way compared to traditional learning management systems.

1. Beyond the Garden Wall Using Wordpress to support teaching & learning Natalie Lafferty

2. Changing landscape

6. University VLE

7. Medical School VLE

8. Walled garden

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11. http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/

12. http://biochemistryquestions.wordpress.com /

13. University Mary Washington Blogs

14. UMW - Digital Storytelling Course

16. “ Edupunk - an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude. Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. It describes inventive teaching and inventive learning.”

17. Blogging Doctors http://www.flickr.com/photos/jreed/322057841/

19. Mashing up content