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Philosophy
A Managed Learning Environment potentially provides the means by which learners can be empowered to select materials that suit their preferred learning styles and their own route through the materials. This, combined with formative assessment tools, whether self, peer or teacher administrated and online communication tools – all within one interface – should enable teachers to develop an appropriate blend of online and face-to-face teaching.
It has the potential to break down the artificial barriers of the classroom wall and the school timetable allowing for a more flexible approach to teaching that makes most appropriate use of the real and virtual environment and physical, digital and human resources.
The SIMS .net Learning Platform is deliberately offered as a managed, hosted service for one main reason:
It allows the school to focus on how to make most effective use of the software to support teaching and learning, rather than concentrating on the technical aspects of operating system patches, application upgrades, disaster recovery, firewalls etc.
As soon as the service is switched on and the data uploaded from SIMS then your staff and students have access to areas where they can communicate, post notices, store personal files, have shared and personal diaries, and build prioritised to-do lists – from any internet-connected computer. Immediately the classroom has been extended to beyond the school location and beyond the school’s formal timetable. Staff can then extend use by building banks of resources and activities – some of which may be purchased and some of which may be written by the teacher.
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