Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching, Monash University This presentation will outline how close collaboration between ITS, the Monash Education Centre and the Education Portfolio transformed an LMS review into a Virtual Learning Environment in which staff and student education, virtual and physical and virtual environments and existing and new software and hardware were drawn together to express Monash’s goals for research-inspired education.

2. Our Initial Starting Point: Learning Management Systems

3. The Process Dec 2009-April 2010

4. Wider starting points Previous migrations, but more importantly…

6. What kind of ‘systems’?

7. Student ‘images’ of curriculum

10. Can we engage in curriculum by design?

11. Staff views of the LMS Stress factor ∞

12. But staff and students were deeply interested in ‘learning elearning’, and wanted to contextualise the LMS

13. Curriculum Reform and Renewal Educational Development Framework The Monash Virtual Learning Environment The Monash Passport

14. The Monash Virtual Learning Environment powered by Monash VRE Mahara

15. Digital Ecosystem

17. Thank you http://sites.google.com/site/monashvle/